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The NYSERNet-Public Television Partnership

Ken Devine, Thirteen –WNET, NYC Tim Lance, NYSERNet and University

at Albany

Internet2 Member Meeting - September 21, 2005

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Special offer for Members at the $100 level

Call 1-800-PBS-4-NYS

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And at the $1,000 Membership Level

Call 1-800-PBS-4-NYS

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NYSERNet is. . .• the research and education

network in New York State• the Internet2 gigaPoP in NY• a 501(c)3 not-for-profit• a membership organization• financially self-supporting• long-lived (since 1985)• dedicated to the R&E

community (no commercial customers)

A little bit about NYSERNet

NYSERNet is not. . .• large (staff of 14)• a state agency• an ISP (we resell

commercial ISP service)• a carrier or CLEC

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Prerequisites:

TrustShared - not competing -

vision Willingness to share risk

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And yet we ventured, for the gain proposed

Choked the respect of likely peril fear'd;And since we are o'erset, venture again.

Come, we will all put forth, body and goods.     

- W. Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act 1, Scene 1

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Technical Prerequisite:

Controlling Transport

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Manhattan Dark Fiber

22 sites — 1,528 miles of fiber. . .

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Colocation Site – 32 Avenue of the Americas

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Colocated networks at 32 AofAAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryCity University of New YorkColumbia UniversityFordham UniversityMount Sinai School of MedicineNew York Presbyterian HospitalNew York UniversityNYSERNetWeill Medical College

CA*netMAN LAN GÉANTSURFNetQatarHEAnetSINetCERNHOPI (3Q05)National Lambda Rail (3Q05)TWAREN (3Q05)

NYSERNet R&E Colocation

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Albert Einstein Col. of Med.Amer. Museum of Natural HistoryBinghamton UniversityBrookhaven National Lab. City University of New York Clarkson UniversityColumbia UniversityCornell UniversityFordham University Hofstra University IBM Watson Research Lab.Marist CollegeMt. Sinai School of MedicineNew School UniversityNew York Public Library

NYSERNet Member Institutions

New York UniversityPace UniversityRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRochester Institute of TechnologyRockefeller University Stony Brook UniversitySUNY GeneseoSUNY PotsdamSyracuse University Univ. at AlbanyUniv. at BuffaloUniversity of RochesterUpstate Medical UniversityWeill Medical College

The NYSERNet Network Today

Abilene

MAN LAN

Buffalo

Rochester

SyracuseAlbany

32 AofA

Abilene

NYSERNet’s Previous Statewide R&E Network — 1999-2005

HEAnet

CA*net

60 Hudson

OC-12GigE

legend

NYSERNet PoP

10 GigE

R&E Network

DWDM

Abilene

MAN LAN

Buffalo

RochesterAlbany

32 AofA

Abilene

NYSERNet DWDM and R&E Networks — 2005

CA*net

Syracuse

OC-12GigE

legend

NYSERNet PoP

10 GigE

R&E Network

DWDM

NLR

ESnet

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A Private Interconnect Network for New York’s PBS Member Stations

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Bandwidth Comparisons

100Mbps Ethernet

3.7Mbps MPEG-2 CBR VHS Quality

Video Stream

20Mbps MPEG-2 CBR HDTV Quality Video

Stream

64Kbps Phone Line

128Kbps ISDN

600Kbps DSL3Mbps DSL

1.544Mbps T1

10Mbps Ethernet

Work at home

Educational & Medical Applications

Prepared by Jon MooreZipp System (Grant County, WA)

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“Public television has been responsible for the production, broadcast and

dissemination of programs which form the richest audiovisual source of

cultural history in the United States.”

Television and Video Preservation 1997:A Study of the Current State of American Television

and Video Preservation Report of the Librarian of Congress

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Acrobat Document

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Thank You