Welcome from the University of Utah
| Stephen H. Hess | |
| Associate Vice President | |
| Electronic Communications |
| Oldest University West of the Missouri River | |
| Total Enrollment 28,437 | |
| Total Number of Employees 14,250 | |
| 17 Colleges | |
| $ 1.7 Billion Annual Budget | |
| Host of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games |
| Nolan Bushnell founder of Atari father of Video Games | |
| John E. Warnock Co-Founder of Adobe Systems | |
| Edwin Catmull President of Pixar | |
| Alan Ashton Co-Founder of Word Perfect | |
| David Evans Co-Founder of Evans and Sutherland | |
| Thomas Stock on the Faculty of the UofU College of Engineering the Father of Digital Recording | |
| 1969 ARPANET commissioned by DOD for research into networking - Uses Network Control Protocol (NCP) through Information Message Processors (IMP) developed by Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) - First node at UCLA and soon after at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), UCSB, and the University of Utah. |
| 1971 15 nodes (23 hosts): UCLA, SRI, UCSB, U of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames. | |
| That’s 34 years. LOTS of years in Internet Time |
| Provides Internet, Internet2, IP video, VoIP services for several hundred departments and buildings on campus | |
| 40 gig Core Node Project: bringing 40 GigE from the Core nodes to Distrubution | |
| More info In Bryan Morris Utah Network update later today |
| Provides Internet, Internet2, IP video, VoIP services for K-12, higher-ed, libraries, state government in Utah and southern Idaho | ||
| GL3 Project: bringing GigE WAN services to Utah higher-ed, K-12, libraries, state govt | ||
| Phase 1 (finish summer ‘05): GigE/10GigE backbone, most higher-eds, 16 K-12 district offices, 25 middle/high schools, state government | ||
| Phase 2 (finish fall ‘05): 145 middle/high schools, more higher-ed main and branch campuses | ||
| Phase 3 (start ‘06): ~300 K-12 schools, libraries | ||