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WNY Partnership for
Regional Internetworking
Carol A Kostyniak,
Chair
Requests for inclusion on the roster for the WNY-PRI listserv and
bona-fide requests for additional member contact information should be directed to Carol
Kostyniak, Chair, or Jim Whitlock
for forwarding and handling. Please include a brief statement of your
background and interests.
The WNY Partnership for Regional Internetworking
is a new advocacy and working group that plans to lobby for and work towards
establishing the robust and seamless regional public sector internetworking that
will be necessary to support public benefit networked video applications in
education, healthcare and government service. Our presumption is that such seamless regional internetworking can be best
accomplished with a regional Dark Fiber network similar to the several
hundred other such networks in various stages of planning throughout North
America today. Current regional and municipal Dark Fiber
build plans capitalize on the dollar value of rights-of-way to dramatically reduce deployment costs.
Further, aggregation of traffic affords opportunities for both local peering and
reduction of baseline operating costs through volume discount.
A sub-group is
actively working on finding the means and mechanisms to fund and operate a
regional institutionally shared
production-grade support facility and staff for the various video-conferencing and streaming
video infrastructure technologies needed to support the networked video
based applications that high quality regional inter-networks enable.
Membership now spans most of the major colleges,
universities, hospitals, public school groups, private school groups and both
city and county government IT/IS departments.
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