Monticello and Video Conferencing

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Monticello and Video Conferencing

• How to make it work
• Shelley Rossitto
• Director of Instructional Technology
• Monticello Central School District
• srossitto_at_monticelloschools.net

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Projects

• Collaboration with districts
• Virtual Field Trips
• Meetings outside of region
• Shared professional development
• HS and elementary links
• 5th and 6th grade links (diversity)
• Professional Development
• Music Cleveland Institute

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Challenges

• Bandwidth
• Within district, time of day, 4-county ring
• Management packeteer
• Classifies network traffic into categories based
  on URL, subnet, application - tracking
• Provides reporting and graphing on peak times,
  TCP health and helps analyze delays
• Allocate bandwidth
• Identify top users of bandwidth

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Challenges cont.

• Infrastructure
• Replace hubs with switched ethernet
• Provision bandwidth
• QOS
• Looking at gateways
• Security
• Provisioning IP addresses- public internet to
  inside district translations
• Firewalls multiple types
• Management of calls
• Physical setup of classrooms lights, microphone
• Portability network jacks in rooms (easy
  access) cables on floor, etc. Technical staff
  availability, remote access vs. sneakernet

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VPN
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What the data tells us

• How to proceed in scheduling
• How much bandwidth to allow
• When can we download and when do we need to be
  live
• Be aware of other location in scheduling. If
  they do not have a plan in place your VC could
  come to an end because of their bandwidth issues.
  

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Equipment to purchase

• Polycoms,Tandbergs
• Models based on what you use them for
• Gateways
• Firewalls
• Infrastructure upgrades

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Information to be found

• White papers by Polycom and My Powerpoint
• http//www.monticelloschools.net
• Click on District corner, technology page and
  video conferencing

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Credits

• Staff at Monticello that makes this work
• Dennis DePasquale Head Technician
• Ron Devine Network Administrator
• Scott Kox Network Administrator
• David Schwartz Network Administrator
• Peter Jockel- Technician
• David Linton Technician
• Maria Cruz Systems Operator