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U.S. UCAN Program– What is It?
Connectivity Stats
• 84,146 K–12 Schools (60%)
• 4,203 Public Libraries (25%)
• 1,491 Colleges and Universities
• 799 Community or Vocational Colleges (50%)
• 2,237 Health Care Organizations
• 200 Museums, Science Centers, Zoo, and Aquariums
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Putting Gigabit Networks to Work…Test Driving
Gigabit Applications
Participate
Implement
Monitor
Evaluate
Promote
Advice to Developers
• Instructions – How
to Guide
• New or
improvement?
• Benefit to
organization
• Open to feedback
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Why Is Developing Test Beds Important?
Big Picture
Nuts and Bolts
• Demonstrate value
• Transform CAIs
• Facilitate cross-
community
collaboration
• Developer feedback
• Implementation
documentation
• Impact metrics
Participation
Identify CAIs interested in trying new things, find a champion for each organization.
Ensure that programmatic and technical leadership is on board or “bought in.”
Develop mini-community– shared experience.
Implementation
Use and deployment requirements.
Key success factors, challenges, and implementation requirements.
Means to measure or demonstrate impact.
Monitoring
App use best practices and required process adjustments for deployment.
Refinements, new features, or bugs to address.
Means to measure and document success in use, impact.
Evaluation
Application enabled CAI metrics.
Lessons learned in CAI application deployment.
Efficacy of Testbed approach.
Promotion:
To facilitate local outreach and public relations to highlight Testbed impact.
To showcase and publicize efforts to attract additional CAIs and communities.
Big Picture
Demonstrate the value of gig networks
Transform how CAIs serve communities through gigabit applications.
Facilitate cross-region/city CAI collaboration and partnerships.
Nuts and Bolts
Provide feedback cycle for developer.
Provide technical and programmatic CAI application implementation and use documentation.
Identify metrics and demonstrate impact of adoption.