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Broadband services for schools through the Greek School Network Christos Bouras

Professor, University of Patras Computer Technology Institute

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The Greek School Network

• Objectives

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Operate, maintain and extend national school network infrastructure

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Connecting schools with the Greek School Network

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Hosting, development and support for telematic services

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User support and education in the use of the network and services

• Educational goals

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Support learning through the use of digital services

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Provide access to certified digital content

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Facilitate cooperation among distributed teams

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Facilitate the communication among the members of the educational community in national and international level

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Facilitate administrative and organizational actions for education

• An environment that encourages educational innovation, promotes utilization of investments

and creates the environment for the creation of digital educational content

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• Under the MoE design for issuing and utilizing ICTs in education:

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Distributed infrastructures development (school laboratories, networking, telematic services)

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Creation of digital content and software

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Education for teachers in ICT

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Modernization for educational management and administration

• Funding

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2007-today: national funds

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2000-2006 : EU - Operational program for Information Society

• Implemented with the cooperation of human network:

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Ministry of Education

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2 Research Institutions

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9 Univercities & Technical Univercities (NTUA, Athens, Aristotle, Aegean, Macedonia, Democritus, Thessaly, Ioannina, Crete)

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2 Technological Educational Institutions (Athens, Salonica)

• International best practice

Funding - implementation

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The human network

• Roles:

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Design and implementation for network infrastructures in educational units and administrative bureaus

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Design, development, provisioning and support for telematic services

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Procurement for network and service infrastructures

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Management and operation for network and services

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Technical support for schools and users

• Utilization of excellence centers in research and educational institutions:

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Produce and digest know-how in national level

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Produce and promote experienced, specialized personnel

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Bridging the IT competences gap

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Save operational costs

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Some numbers and stats …

• Single largest operational national network in extent and size
• Connects 14.390 schools, 7.500 school LANs, 2.937 education administration

bureaus, 594 libraries (494 in schools, 71 national, 29 municipal), 60 general national record bureaus

• Provides personalized access to 73.413 teachers, 21.835 students
• Numbers 119.819 active e-mail accounts
• Provides network services complementary with GRNET
• Closed educational intranet – security for students is on of the prime objectives
• Provides a value added services designed for education
• User training and support in offered services
• Promotion and application of the open source development model – significant

participation in OSS community

• Provides digital social space and the means for the creation of Greek

Educational Internet - based Communities

• Internet penetration: 100%, Broadband penetration: 70%

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Certified users:

• Schools
• Students
• Teachers
• Administration staff
• Administrative offices

User categories

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Current network architecture

• Backbone network: GRNET –the Greek

Network for Research and Education: – cooperation – complementary –

• perational cost minimization
• Distribution network:

– 51 owned nodes installed in National Telecommunication Organization centers – Gigabit connections via GRNET-2 in 16 points (Athens, Salonica, Patras, Heraklion, Larisa, Ioaninna, Siros, Xanthi, Chania, Rethimnon, Serres, Korinth, Komotene, Chios, Mytilene, Kozani)

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Network architecture

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Future network architecture

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• Basic services

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Network access

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Automated teacher and studen registration

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Regulated internet access

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Schools portal and students portal

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User support

• Communication services

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Electronic mail and e-mail anti virus and anti spam protection

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Electronic communication lists

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Discussion forums

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Teleconferencing

• Content pomotion services

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Web pages for schools and teachers

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Wizards for automated web page creation

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Blogs

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School electronic magazines

Telematic services to users (1/2)

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• Advanced services

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Video on demand

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Live casting

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Synchronous and asynchronous tele-education

• Complementary services

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Electronic cards

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Electronic magazine e-emphasis

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Web folders

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Digial certificates and PKI

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Property registry

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GIS

Telematic services to users (2/2)

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• Central infrastructure services

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NMS network management system

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Monitoring tools

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Domain name service

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LDAP directory service

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Users management service

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Single Sign On (SSO) service

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Identity management and Federation services

Administration Services

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Will provide students and teachers with:

• Authentication and secure internet access services
• Asynchronous tele-education services
• Creation and common document services
• Synchronous and asynchronous tele-education
• Content creation, communication and promotion
• Collaborative learning and social networking
• Integrated communication
• Student portal

New educational toolbox

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• PKI service
• Single Sign On (SSO), federation and identity management (IM)
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Synchronous tele-education
• IPv6 activation
• Remote network and system management for school labs:

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inventory - asset management

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software distribution

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Remote desktop control

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System and network monitoring

Innovative actions and services

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• Benefits:

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Reduced costs in acquiring and maintaining software, fro example Clam-AV reduces operational costs by 80.000 euros/year

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High national added value

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Contribution leads to know-how

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Internationalization, translations and adaptations (horde, moodle, free radius)

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Development and contribution (dialup-admin)

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Reduced times for setting-up services, applications or environments

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Customization of software to needs

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Quality, acceptance, reliability, performance and security

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Security is checked by the community

• Defects:

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Lack/inaccurate/out-dated documentation

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Limited support

Open source in the GSN

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Conclusions

• Greek School Network: the national intranet of first and second level education
• Successful implementation due to the collaboration of MoE&R, Research

Institutions, Univercities, Technical Educational Institutions, GRNET and school communities

• Exploits know-how from academia
• Utilizes critical national resources (GRNET)
• Offers a wide range of added value services
• Promotes educational innovation and IT usage in education
• Minimizes operational costs and pursues valuable solution
• Fosters the exploitation of educational infrastructures for broad purposes with

national impact

• Collaborates with local communities and organizations

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