new mexico statewide broadband gil gonzales, ph.d., cio university of new mexico june 9, 2014

New Mexico Statewide Broadband

Gil Gonzales, Ph.D., CIO

University of New Mexico

June 9, 2014

• Collaboration is at the heart of the Academy• Regionally, Nationally, Globally• The more advanced, the farther & fewer are collaborators

• Networks are essential to the new conduct of science: data & compute-intensive science• Dispersed sources of data, storage, analysis, modeling• In every discipline: Physics, Chem, Math, Sociology, Medicine, Climate,

Music

• Networks are essential to instruction delivery & learning• Online content delivery, testing & learning, research, MOOCs

• Performance is critical and growth is exponential• Data movement : packet size and speed• Analysis must scale with the data• Security cannot be sacrificed for performance

The Motivation

University of New Mexico

• New Mexico’s flagship higher education institution

• Hispanic-serving• 27,000 students on main campus• 8,000 students on 4 branch campuses

• “Research Extensive” by Carnegie Classification

• Medical School, Teaching Hospital (21,000 employees), Cancer Center, Nursing, Pharmacy, Law, Business, Engineering Schools

The UNM IT Department

• Enterprise IT service provider for UNM• Banner ERP, Computer classrooms & labs• Partners with HPC, Research, Learning Mgt• GigaPoP, Western Regional Network (WRN)

• 150 IT Staff, 80+ Student Employees• ITIL certification of over 50% of technical staff• PMI certification of project managers• Baldrige Quality Performance Excellence recognition in

NM 2011 & 2013

NSF: “Continuous collaborative computational cloud”

Best Practices• Process to bridge to national

infrastructure• Interoperable identification

and authentication• Dissemination and use of

shared data collections

New Mexico

US Moves Up in WW Avg - 2013

US Broadband

New Mexico Broadband

2012: 5th slowest @ 372kbs

New Mexico Providers

National Context

Regional Network

• Consortium of Regional Optical Networks (RONs)

• Locations with HUBS at each RON:

• Albuquerque Gigapop (ABQG): New Mexico• Front Range Gigapop (FRG): Colorado, Wyoming• Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP): Washington, Montana, Alaska• Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives in California

(CENIC): California, Nevada, Arizona

• University of Hawaii System (UH)

• Shared network services

• Cost Effective Exchanges

State & Tribal Collaborations

Questions

Dr. Gil Gonzales

CIOgonzgil@unm.edu (505) 277-8125