Duke University and TNE: Needs, Opportunities & Directions

Kevin Davis Internet2 Global Summit May 18, 2016 About Duke

§ Located in Durham, North Carolina in southeastern US § Founded 1838, endowed as Duke University in 1924 § Top 10 US, top 30 global university; top 15 US medical center Duke in the World

§ MOUs, research initiatives, global health work, study abroad initiatives worldwide – FY2015: 4,374 faculty/staff and 4,500+ student international trips § BRICS, developing world a major focus TNE Programs: Duke Kunshan, Duke-NUS § Duke Kunshan University in Jiangsu, China (2012) – Partnerships with Wuhan University and City of Kunshan – Graduate programs, global learning semester, conference center; undergraduate program in development § Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore (2005) – Partnership with National University of Singapore – Flipped classroom materials with site faculty, research components DKU IT Needs and Service Delivery

§ Shared IT services hosted/brokered by Duke as with all Duke schools – Collaboration, LMS, academic video, library, hosting, SIS, etc. – Delivery from US (Durham), Singapore, or the cloud § Duke Kunshan hosts services where local differentiation, local storage or other needs require – ERP, local storage/backup, PACS/facility, hospitality, etc. § World-class WAN required – Real-time video/telepresence – Access to LMS, learning assets, other IT services – Latency, bandwidth, availability all crucial IT/NREN Collaboration at DKU

§ Internet2, CERNET partnership vital for Internet access, telepresence links – 10 Gb/s Los Angeles-Beijing link – 200 Mb/s campus WAN – recently moved to direct fiber § Singapore colocation facility (Internet2) for regional data center serving DKU and other programs Future Duke TNE growth

§ International research activities and global health – Tanzania, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Brazil, and others

§ Regional support for research, study, programs – Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, South America, Middle East, Europe

§ “Anywhere, any time, any place” support Duke’s NREN partnership wishlist

§ Ability to contract for WAN services as own entity, and at non-campus locations – Examples: Sub-Saharan Africa; corporate education sites § Local site consulting and support shaped to local conditions – Vendor partnerships, procurement – In-country IT expertise (NREN, members, trusted vendors?) § NRENs and regional federation support services – Global VPN gateways (expand the Eduroam model?) – Xaas, Security as a Service – Network fault detection and troubleshooting (from technical wizardry to “just” bridging language barriers)