The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California 2008-09 Annual Report Letter from the President The 2008-09 fiscal year has been profoundly marked by challenges to the California research & education community in three crucial areas: cost, carbon, and convenience. In the 2008-09 Annual Report, I’m very happy to share with you a showcase of just how CENIC and the advanced networking services it was created to provide are playing an increasingly vital role in the research & education community’s response to today’s challenges in all three areas. Chief among these is of course, cost. The community that CENIC serves relies on us to meet the needs of the Golden State’s nearly ten million faculty, staff, and students and those of neighboring states we serve, while operating within increasingly narrow financial constraints. Jim Dolgonas More and more, that community turns to advanced networks to leverage resources and President & CEO innovations, ensuring that as many of its members gain benefit from them as possible. High- quality videoconferencing like that provided by CalREN Video Services has extended the reach of a single classroom far beyond traditional boundaries, serving whole populations once considered on the wrong side of the “digital divide” and enabling as many people as possible to benefit from resources located at an individual institution. Driven by advanced networking, revolutionary new collaborations have enabled member institutions to come together and increase their effectiveness while serving industries eager to recruit new members and keep their existing worker population up-to-date as cost-effectively as possible. The reduction of carbon footprint is another area of challenge, in California and beyond, in which CENIC is proud to play a vital role. The synthesis of virtual classrooms, laboratories, computers, and collaborations is one of the greatest areas of potential for high-bandwidth networks like CalREN, and the cost and carbon savings for such innovations is tremendous. Such synthesis can save on travel, reducing budgets and greenhouse gas emissions, and empower advances like green data storage and processing centers that can be designed and made available state- and worldwide through optical networks. Further, understanding and hopefully even offsetting the effects of climate change requires global science powered by high-bandwidth networking. The third area of challenge is convenience. In today’s world, cost and carbon must be more and more carefully budgeted, but the most valuable commodity of all is, as always, time. Many CENIC Associates are today asked to do more with fewer resources, and the advanced networking services provided via CalREN give faculty and staff the ability to touch more lives than ever, even as their own work lives become more and more demanding. High-quality videoconferencing is once again a “killer app” for saving dollars, greenhouse gases, and time not only in the classroom but for administrative purposes as well, and leveraging resources across optical networks prevents inefficient duplication of effort. (714) 220-3400 • www.cenic.org Table of Contents Throughout this Report, you’ll see stories of how the CENIC community is achieving all of these things by taking About CENIC: advantage of everything that high- 3 Board of Directors for 2008-09 bandwidth networking has to offer. And as always, the CENIC community and 4 2008-09 Committees & Councils CENIC itself are revealed as one and the 6 2008-09 CENIC Associates same. Not only individual institutions or segments benefit from the dedication and 11 2008-09 Financial Statement expertise that you all so generously share, but the state, nation, and the world do as About The CalREN Network: well. I would like to thank the CENIC Board of Directors, the chairs and 12 CalREN: Past, Present, and Future members of our committees and councils, One Backbone, Three Networks our corporate partners, and of course our staff for giving all CENIC members, 15 2008-09 CalREN Backbone Updates those in California and outside, the tools Many Communities, One Goal needed to meet these challenges and, I’m 17 2008-09 CalREN Updates sure, exceed the catalogue of accomplish- ments you are now reading in the years to 20 CalREN Video Services: Saving Cost and Carbon come. I’m certain that this community’s 22 The CENIC Network Operations Center greatest achievement will be how we came together to prevail over these challenges 24 Beyond California: Pacific Wave & TransitRail and moved forward with confidence into an even greater future. CENIC Outreach: 26 The 2008 CalREN-XD/HPR Workshop 30 A Super Time in Austin: Supercomputing 08 32 Riding the Waves of Innovation in Long Beach 38 CENIC Outreach in Mexico 40 Representing CENIC at the Mid-Pacific ICT Center 42 A Call to Action on Climate Change in Montréal 1 CENIC is committed to the following goals ... • Continuously improving a robust, cost-effective, state-of-the- art communications network, accessible to participating educa- tion and research institutions, • Working with member institutions to define a value chain of services, and developing innovative ways to deliver scalable solutions to members, • Leading efforts of participating institutions to provide end- Mission College • Santa Clara, CA to-end service quality and interoperability among member institutions, and promoting adoption across network boundaries, • Advancing the collective interests of the institutions by lever- aging their diversity and relationships to accrue benefits to individual members, San Francisco State University • Providing a competitive advantage in the global marketplace to the education and research communities, • Communicating the value of CENIC as California’s recognized provider of network services for education and research, • Providing opportunities for innovation in teaching, learning, UC Berkeley and research through use of the network, and • Strengthening participation in the state, national, and interna- tional education and research networking communities. 2 (714) 220-3400 • www.cenic.org Board of Directors for 2008-09 Board Officers: CCC Directors: Private & Independent Directors: David Ernst, Chair Patrick Perry John Dundas Associate Vice President & Chief Vice Chancellor Director, Information Management Information Officer California Community College Systems & Services UC Office of the President System Office California Institute of Technology Chuck Rowley, Vice Chair Catherine McKenzie Bill Clebsch Associate Vice Chancellor, Director, Technology Unit Executive Director, Information Computing & Communications California Community College Technology Services UC Riverside System Office Stanford University John Silvester, Secretary Fred Sherman Outside Directors: Professor, Department of Chief Technology Officer Larry Smarr Electrical Engineering Vice Chancellor of Technology, Director University of Southern California Educational Technology Services California Institute for Foothill-DeAnza Community Telecommunications & John Charles, Treasurer College District Information Technology Chief Information Officer CSU East Bay CSU Directors: Ron Johnson Ruben Armiñana Vice President, Computing & K-12 Directors: President Communications John Anderson Sonoma State University University of Washington Superintendent Imperial County Office of Michael McLean Education Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor, Information Technology Services Keric Ashley CSU Chancellor’s Office Director Data Management Division UC Directors: California Department of Education Elazar Harel Assistant Vice Chancellor, Todd Finnell Administrative Computing Chief Executive Officer & Telecommunications K12 High-Speed Network UC San Diego 3 2008-09 Committees & Councils Chair, Business Advisory Council Chair, HPR Network Technical Advisory Council Doug Hartline Ken Lindahl (before 1/1/2009) Director, Core Technologies Information Services and Technology, Infrastructure Information Technology Services Services UC Santa Cruz UC Berkeley Chair, DC Network Technical Advisory Council Rodger Hess (after 1/1/2009) Deborah Ludford Network Architect, Communications Resources District Director, Information Services UC Davis North Orange County Community College District Audit Committee Finance Committee XD/HPR Network Committee Catherine McKenzie, Chair John Charles, Chair John Dundas, Chair Doug Hartline Doug Hartline John Silvester Mark Crase John Anderson Larry Smarr California State University Elazar Harel Ron Johnson Todd Finnell Patrick Perry Christine Cermak Fred Sherman Sam Steinhardt Naval Postgraduate School Stanford University Ken Lindahl Trevor Stewart Jim Davis, UCLA Butte Community College Greg Hidley District UC San Diego Jim Dolgonas • Ex Officio Tom Hutton UC San Diego Tom DeFanti UC San Diego Rodger Hess Russ Hobby UC Davis Pete Siegel UC Davis Dave Reese* CENIC Jim Dolgonas* • Ex Officio * Non-voting member 4 (714) 220-3400 • www.cenic.org The CENIC Core Values describe the standards by which CENIC and its employees should oper- ate. These values do not change with time or circumstance and should not be compromised. They are the underpinnings of our corporate culture and should be reflected in everything we do. Integrity We conduct ourselves according to high ethical standards. Stewardship We respect the resources our Associates have entrusted to us – time, money, effort, and intellectual capital – and pledge to act as responsible stewards of all of these. Accountability We take responsibility for our conduct in dealings with each other and our Associates. Respect