{"id":16365,"date":"2019-10-17T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:16","slug":"its-hosts-big-ten-networking-group-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/17\/its-hosts-big-ten-networking-group-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"ITS hosts Big Ten networking group meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-16113\" style=\"max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-106-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-16113 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-cubic\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"BTAA - Network Group\" data-height=\"600\" data-width=\"800\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_16113\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_16113\" class=\"flexslider\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-16116 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-10-23 09:39:44\" data-filename=\"BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_1-e1572461845119.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_1-e1572461845119.jpg\" class=\"slider-16113 slide-16116 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"U-M VPIT and CIO, Ravi Pendse speaking to the Big Ten Alliance Network group.\" rel=\"\" title=\"BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_1\" style=\"margin-top: 2.5%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_1-e1572461845119.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_1-e1572461845119-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_1-e1572461845119-286x200.jpg 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_1-e1572461845119-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">U-M VPIT and CIO, Ravi Pendse thanked the Big Ten Alliance Network for the collaborative work they do across the Big Ten. (Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-16115 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-10-23 09:39:44\" data-filename=\"BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_3-e1572461915698.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_3-e1572461915698.jpg\" class=\"slider-16113 slide-16115 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"U-M VPIT CIO Ravi Pendse speaking to BTAA Network group.\" rel=\"\" title=\"BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_3\" style=\"margin-top: 2.5%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_3-e1572461915698.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_3-e1572461915698-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_3-e1572461915698-286x200.jpg 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_Ravi_3-e1572461915698-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">U-M VPIT and CIO, Ravi Pendse welcomed members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance Network group to Ann Arbor on October 10, 2019. (Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-16118 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-10-23 09:39:44\" data-filename=\"BTAANetwork101019_WIFIGroup-1-e1572461732533.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WIFIGroup-1-e1572461732533.jpg\" class=\"slider-16113 slide-16118 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"BTAANetwork101019_WIFIGroup - 1\" style=\"margin-top: 2.5%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WIFIGroup-1-e1572461732533.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WIFIGroup-1-e1572461732533-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WIFIGroup-1-e1572461732533-286x200.jpg 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WIFIGroup-1-e1572461732533-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">ITS hosted the Big Ten Academic Alliance Network groups on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Subgroups included the network directors and the WiFi group\/IT networking group. (Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-16117 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-10-23 09:39:44\" data-filename=\"BTAANetwork101019_WiFiGroup2-1-e1572461766823.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WiFiGroup2-1-e1572461766823.jpg\" class=\"slider-16113 slide-16117 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"Christopher Dietrich from the Ohio State University\" rel=\"\" title=\"BTAANetwork101019_WiFiGroup2 - 1\" style=\"margin-top: 2.5%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WiFiGroup2-1-e1572461766823.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WiFiGroup2-1-e1572461766823-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WiFiGroup2-1-e1572461766823-286x200.jpg 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_WiFiGroup2-1-e1572461766823-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Christopher Dietrich shared information on what the Ohio State University's wifi network is doing to expand service on campus. (Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-16119 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-10-23 09:39:44\" data-filename=\"BTAANetwork101019_NetworkIL-1-e1572461979835.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkIL-1-e1572461979835.jpg\" class=\"slider-16113 slide-16119 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"Brent Tuggle from the University of Illinois\" rel=\"\" title=\"BTAANetwork101019_NetworkIL - 1\" style=\"margin-top: 2.5%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkIL-1-e1572461979835.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkIL-1-e1572461979835-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkIL-1-e1572461979835-286x200.jpg 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkIL-1-e1572461979835-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Brent Tuggle provides an update on the IT network infrastructure at the University of Illinois during a Network Group meeting at the BTAA Network meeting. (Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-16120 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-10-23 09:39:44\" data-filename=\"BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroupEric-1-e1572461690876.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroupEric-1-e1572461690876.jpg\" class=\"slider-16113 slide-16120 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"Eric Boyd, ITS director of networks\" rel=\"\" title=\"BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroupEric - 1\" style=\"margin-top: 2.5%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroupEric-1-e1572461690876.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroupEric-1-e1572461690876-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroupEric-1-e1572461690876-286x200.jpg 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroupEric-1-e1572461690876-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Eric Boyd, ITS director of networks, and the ITS infrastructure team hosted close to 50 network directors and WiFi professionals from 13 schools around the Big Ten to collaborate and discuss successes and current projects from each campus. (Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-16121 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-10-23 09:39:44\" data-filename=\"BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroup2-1-e1572462025718.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroup2-1-e1572462025718.jpg\" class=\"slider-16113 slide-16121 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"Randy Nicklas, University of Maryland\" rel=\"\" title=\"BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroup2 - 1\" style=\"margin-top: 2.5%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroup2-1-e1572462025718.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroup2-1-e1572462025718-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroup2-1-e1572462025718-286x200.jpg 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BTAANetwork101019_NetworkGroup2-1-e1572462025718-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Randy Nicklas, from the University of Maryland, discusses network infrastructure upgrades and plans for future improvements on the Maryland campus. (Joel Iverson, ITS Communications)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 10-11, the U-M ITS network group hosted the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), bi-annual network leaders collaboration gathering. Close to 50 network and IT leaders from member universities of the Big Ten Network Directors and WiFi Group\/IT Networking Group met at the Graduate Hotel in Ann Arbor. The last time the meeting was in Ann Arbor was in 2006.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> U-M CIO Ravi Pendse opened the event by welcoming everyone to Michigan and talked about his personal involvement with network engineering and support in higher education. This prompted a great back and forth between Pendse and the BTAA networking community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussion topics over the two-day event included: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Network border security<\/li><li>Network funding models<\/li><li>Cloud infrastructure (AWS &amp; Azure) as an underpinning of telecom and networking services<\/li><li>Videoconferencing service definitions and support models<\/li><li>And many other relevant issues<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The magnitude of network services speaks to the importance of inter-institutional networking strategy in support of the collaboration, research, data-enhanced decision-making, and security at our institutions,&#8221; says Eric Boyd, director of networks for ITS Infrastructure. &#8220;This twice-yearly meeting is incredibly valuable for sharing information among peers in a way that raises the quality of networking on all Big Ten campuses.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U-M, one of the Alliance\u2019s founding institutions, has been a member of the BTAA for more than sixty years. The BTAA includes major research universities with strong academic reputations that jointly provide network support for almost 600,000 students and approximately 49,000 full-time faculty members. They additionally support $9.8 billion in funded research and libraries that own over 110 million volumes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 10-11, the U-M ITS network group hosted the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), bi-annual network leaders collaboration gathering. Close to 50 network and IT leaders from member universities of the Big Ten Network Directors and WiFi Group\/IT Networking Group met at the Graduate Hotel in Ann Arbor. The last time the meeting was in Ann Arbor\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/17\/its-hosts-big-ten-networking-group-meeting\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":16373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[511,98,256],"class_list":["post-16365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-btaa","tag-infrastructure","tag-network"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo.png",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo-200x133.png",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo.png",600,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo.png",600,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo.png",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo.png",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo.png",600,400,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/big-ten-academic-alliance-logo.png",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Katarina Thomas, ITS Infrastructure Systems","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/kkit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"On October 10-11, the U-M ITS network group hosted the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), bi-annual network leaders collaboration gathering. 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