Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Georgia Tech, Dartmouth, MIT, Drexel, Indiana University, University of Delaware, University of Virginia, New Jesery Institute of Technology and SUNY Buffalo.
Portland State’s Wireless network (PubNet), is available in the Science Building, Millar Library, Park Blocks (between Cramer Hall and Neuberger Hall), Cramer Hall, Smith Memorial Center, Graduate School of Education, and the Urban Center Building (2nd floor). Portland Community College has a wireless library. State educational include OPEN (Oregon Public Education Network). Oregon students in 280 public high schools and 21 ESDs have a $20,000 teleconferencing video unit using the Oregon Access Network. The teleconferencing system in Oregon schools needs bandwidth but schools pay up to $1200/month for connections. Commercial Wireless ISPs in Portland including Winfield Wireless and KISTech Wireless might cut their bill in half. Beaming 20 Mbps to a school from OHSU might be a cost/effective solution.
You don’t have to be a Benson High School graduate. Just Wi-Lan.
Portland’s I-Net will be divided into High and Low Capacity users. The high capacity users consist of 300 government buildings, public and private schools and universities, public libraries and selected non-profit organizations. The low capacity sites include 1,000 traffic signals, bus stops and digital monitoring devices. The city-run I-Net may provide a cost/effective backbone. Or not. After years of trying and hundreds of thousands of dollars, the I-Net and Portland’s IRNE still aren’t connected. The city of Portland runs the Integrated Regional Network Enterprise (IRNE), a broadband telecommunications network that will carry all voice and data communications for the City of Portland.
Education is a $810 Billion business. It gets tons of government grants and still costs a fortune. Video servers like University of Oregon’s IPTV system using Cisco IPTV 3400. Portland State Courses and PCC On-line classes use WebCT. MIT is putting all their lecture notes, tests and classes, on-line. For free. Wireless Education List Serve has more information. Educational DVDs that play on a $199 X-Box or Playstation-2 and packaged with live conferencing is one possiblity. Jim Johnson is a voice in the wilderness.
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