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Nysernet Staff Sector, Like Energy, Climate, and Health Care, We Have Engaged New York’S Cor- Sharon M NYSERNet Board of Directors Jeanne Casares Voldemar Innus David E. Lewis Chief Information Officer Vice President & CIO Vice Provost & CIO Rochester Institute of Technology Buffalo State College University of Rochester Brian Cohen Robert W. Juckiewicz Marilyn McMillan Associate Vice Chancellor & CIO Vice President for IT Vice President for IT & Chief IT Officer City University of New York Hofstra University for NYU NY Campus, New York University Elias Eldayrie John E. Kolb Mark Reed Associate Vice President & CIO VP for Information Services and Associate Vice President for IT University at Buffalo Technology and CIO Binghamton University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Candace Fleming Richard Reeder Vice President & CIO Vace Kundakci Director of IT & CIO Columbia University Assistant Vice President Stony Brook University for IT & CIO Armand Gazes City College of New York Gary O. Roberts Director, Information Technology Director Information Technology Services Operations and Network Security Timothy L. Lance Alfred University The Rockefeller University President NYSERNet Christopher M. Sedore Christine Haile Vice President for IT & CIO Chief Information Officer Francis C. Lees Syracuse University University at Albany Chief Information Officer American Museum of Natural History David Sturm Vice President & CIO The New York Public Library William Thirsk Vice President for IT & CIO Marist College R. David Vernon Director of Information Technology Cornell University Robert Wood Director of Government Relations Clarkson University 2 Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to present NYSERNet’s 2009 annual report. One might ask why, in our silver anniversary year, this is the first such report. The answer lies in our evolution. From its beginning, NYSERNet has had an engaged, active Board. In our semi- annual Board meetings and biennial strategic retreats reporting has occurred regularly. With Board guidance, over the last quarter century we have taken many calculated strategic risks, creating networks, network services, and valuable assets for the state, nation, and globe. Though NYSERNet’s number of employees has not increased, its organization today is more multi-faceted than ever. With our network and other services fundamental to the academic and research enterprise, we have extended our reach to a broader academic community as well as industry and government, catalyzing collaboration. New external factors, such as the federal broadband grants and the FCC’s broadband plan, now call upon the academic networking community to assume a leadership role. NYSERNet’s work no longer occupies a niche, but has become seminal to the mainstream, and our audience is now far broader. With this annual report we begin telling our story to our full audience. Our first such effort has required much attention to format, presentation and content, and comment on any aspect of this report is welcome. Thanks are due to our Board, staff and many in the community who have contributed over the years to the story we have to tell. Regards, Timothy L. Lance, President and Chair, NYSERNet, Inc. 100 S. Salina St., Suite 300 • Syracuse, NY 13202 385 Jordan Road • Troy, NY 12180 315-413-0345 • www.nysernet.org 3 Strategic Plan Like its 2000 and 2005 predecessors, NYSERNet’s latter’s network-dependent applications, such as 2009 Strategic Plan originated in a Board retreat’s our colocation facility at 32 Avenue of the Americas, consensus, enriched and finalized by further Board dynamic waves for data intensive research, and the discussion and direct staff involvement. This contin- Business Continuity Center, exceeding anything ues NYSERNet’s proud tradition of calculated, imagined in 2000. strategic investments of capitol and mind share. Our 2009 goals result directly from realization Strategic plans point the way forward, but of the last four goals above (and indeed from also provide useful benchmarks of progress. rejection of the first). They are as follows: The 2000 plan’s five strategic goals were: 1. Evolve NYSERNet’s network assets – R&E Network, 1. Unify NYSERNet’s two Boards; NYC fiber, and peering facility in Manhattan; 2. Provide advanced networking; 2. Develop the Syracuse Business Continuity Center; 3. Explore the network’s possibilities; 3. Collaboratively anticipate, design, and 4. Engage a broader community; deliver new services and capabilities; 5. Sustain and enhance NYSERNet’s 4. Sustain our visibility in forums where the nation- state and national visibility. al and global future of research and education networking is being deliberated and determined; Ultimately, we opted to continue with both 5. Continue to build our relationship with Boards, maintaining Org Board’s breadth and New York’s corporate community and its diversity and the smaller Net Board’s focused, government, particularly NYSTAR; long-term responsibility. Multifaceted, complex, 6. Leverage our standing to secure support interlocking operations trace from each of and funding for high-value efforts for the plan’s four remaining goals. The second NYSERNet and its member institutions. goal, which grew out of October 1999’s strategic retreat in Savannah, where Reflecting the principles that produced the 2000 we committed to exploring control plan’s goals and their 2005 reinforcement, two of transport, led over five years to commitments underlying the current plan also several seminal efforts. These push us into new territory. After a decade of include our New York City steadily expanding outreach to government at fiber deployment, creation both the state and federal level, NYSERNet is of a global peering point now widely viewed as a resource, its opinion in Manhattan, and a often sought. Concurrently, in the hope of bring- statewide optical infra- ing researchers together around “grand challenge” structure, with the problems larger than any discipline, institution or NYSERNet Staff sector, like energy, climate, and health care, we have engaged New York’s cor- Sharon M. Akkoul porate research community. Though Manager, Membership Development Program Manager, NYC Fiber Services building partnerships has long been a core value, these broader affiliations Robert Bloom certainly force NYSERNet to grow. Manager, Data Center Lawrence G. Gallery We remain committed to advanced, Manager, Membership & K12 Program dedicated networking for the research Jeffrey Harrington and education community. A founding Senior Network Engineer principle for all the regional networks, Mary C. Hyla in many this objective has been eclipsed. Chief Financial Officer So our strategic plan’s most striking aspect Robin L. Jones may be our sustained commitment to Contracts Coordinator & HR Administrator providing specialized resources for the research and education community, now Stephen R. Kankus Chief Operating Officer encompassing government and corporate research. The big problems we must all Stephan M. Knapp Manager, Network Operations confront together demand no less. Timothy L. Lance And yet we ventured President and Board Chair for the gain proposed. Katrina Lawrence Choked the respect of likely peril fear'd; Accounting Specialist And since we are o'erset, venture again. Steven E. Matkoski Come, we will all put forth, Supervisor, Internal Systems and Infrastructure body and goods. William C. Owens Chief Technology Officer William Shakespeare, Henry IV, part 2 Jim Shaffer Network Engineer Colocation Supervisor Elaine M. Verrastro Administrative Assistant NYSERNet’s latest strategic plan in its entirety can be found at www.nysernet.org/nn_strategic_plan.pdf 5 Metropolitan Fiber Network NYSERNet’s New York City Metropolitan Fiber of promoting communications survivability Network entered its fifth year of operation in the event of future disasters, led NYSERNet in 2009. Nine of New York’s most prestigious to select Manhattan for this project. institutions now use NYSERNet provided fibers to connect thirty-five locations with Notwithstanding, Manhattan turned out tailored optical networks, enhancing their to be a more difficult location in which to internal and external communication capa- implement this program than any expected. bilities and promoting network robustness. Fiber was available aplenty, but not near the desired locations. And the estimated costs This program aimed to leverage the glut of of acquiring and lighting it, which exceeded fiber left in the wake of the dotcom bubble’s the expectations of many of those initially collapse to provide NYSERNet members with expressing interest, caused some to abandon the unlimited upgradeability fiber promised. the project. Resulting network redesigns Its present maturity and stability belie the drove up costs for institutions still interested. daunting challenges that NYSERNet’s Board, staff and the network’s anchor institutions Ultimately, The American Museum of Natural faced at the project’s beginning. History, City University of New York (CUNY), Columbia University, Mount Sinai School of The borough’s numerous fiber facilities, Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, sheer density of locations that might and Weill Medical College of Cornell connect, and 9/11’s devastating effects University (later joined by Fordham on the City’s telecommunications University; CUNY’s Lehman, John Jay & infrastructure, which motivated Baruch Colleges; New York University and The its institutions to seek ways Rockefeller University) formed the core of this 6 collaborative effort, with Lexent Metro Connect chosen to construct and maintain our custom built fiber plant. As new connectors
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