Spring 2010 Management Symposium

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Innovation: Options, Implementations, and
Technical Solutions

 

 

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Session: Innovation: Options, Implementations, and Technical Solutions

Speakers:
Annette Hearn, Houston Community College
Joseph DiFlavio, Houston Community College
Bill Carter, Houston Community College

Title: Complex to Simplicity: An Enterprise Network Transformation and Beyond

Houston Community College is located in Houston, TX supporting more than 68,000 students and more than 6,000 full-time and part-time faculty and staff at one of the largest community colleges in the country covering more than 600 square miles. Join us and follow a transformation of the enterprise network of Houston Community College from a tangled web of complex connections to a more simplistic and manageable highly available, high-speed gigabit mesh network solution. This session guides administrators and IT professionals through our network evolution. Topics covered include:

• The Way we Were
• Transformation Objectives
• Project Phases • Discovery (multiple sites)
• Documentation (current and future)
• Troubleshooting (constraints)
• Planning & Design (vendor, hardware, ISPs, wireless, environmentals, etc)
• Buy-In (vision, visionaries, commitment)
• Procurement
• Implementation (deployment, enhancements, upgrades)

 

This session will also include a discussion of the following engaging topics:

• Current Projects
• Future Direction
• Benefits
• Lessons Learned
• Our Next Challenge