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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
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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
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 University of New Mexico
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 The UNM IT Department
Best Practices • Process to bridge to national infrastructure • Interoperable identification and authentication • Dissemination and use of shared data collections NSF: “Continuous collaborative computational cloud”
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
Dr. Gil Gonzales CIO gonzgil@unm.edu (505) 277-8125 Questions