René Hatem wrote:
> What happened to Universities carrying the flame of innovation? Why is
> there so much bellhead talk coming from the Universities support people
> (oversubscription, throttling, preventing servers, blocking ports, ...)?
> Is anyone trying to find mid to long term solutions that will **enable**
> students to do more of what they want - not less?
The answers are there. The technology is, for the most part simple.
Hell, you could wire up a kids dorm with GigE and give them the cards
and it wouldn't break the bank. Thats a one time easily amortized cost.
The problem is that is only good for intercampus communications. The
second you try to get off the campus you are talking about tens if not
hundreds of thousands on a recurring basis.
> How about GigE over fiber to every room in every dorm? Maximize use of
> Internet2 bandwidth. Provide what you can in terms of commodity Internet
Sure, no problem. Give everyone 1,000Mbps access to an OC3 or OC12. The
problem isn't that the technology isn't there. The problem is that the
money isn't there. Its a simple "No bucks, No Buck Rogers" kind of
thing. Right now the costs are outstripping budgets. If we had big
unbounded budgets we could do anything... but we don't so restricting
access is necessary.
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