David Lassner's Posts - TechHui2024-03-28T14:52:12ZDavid Lassnerhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidLassnerhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/353347176?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.techhui.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=fpdahxrry0de&xn_auth=noLocal Options for International Advanced Networking Event at EWC Jan 13-18tag:www.techhui.com,2012-12-10:1702911:BlogPost:1138002012-12-10T21:01:26.000ZDavid Lassnerhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidLassner
<p class="p1">UH Information Technology Services (ITS) is once again hosting the "Techs in Paradise" (TIP) series of technical networking workshops & meetings in January 2013 at the East West Center. TIP 2013 brings together hundreds of participants from both the Internet2 and Asia Pacific Advanced Networking (APAN) communities, along with ESNet. This is the only time these groups from East and West meet together; UH hosted previous TIP events in 2001, 2004 & 2008. …</p>
<p class="p1">UH Information Technology Services (ITS) is once again hosting the "Techs in Paradise" (TIP) series of technical networking workshops & meetings in January 2013 at the East West Center. TIP 2013 brings together hundreds of participants from both the Internet2 and Asia Pacific Advanced Networking (APAN) communities, along with ESNet. This is the only time these groups from East and West meet together; UH hosted previous TIP events in 2001, 2004 & 2008. </p>
<p class="p1">Meetings start on Jan. 13 and run through Jan. 18. Highlights include sessions on 100Gbps networks, Software Defined Networking, IPv6, advanced network performance monitoring and management, dynamic capacity assignment, advanced telemedicine sessions and demonstrations, and updates on U.S., government, and international research networks. There are also a variety of tutorials and workshops available.</p>
<p class="p1">The TIP 2013 website with full program can be found at: <a href="http://events.internet2.edu/2013/tip/">http://events.internet2.edu/2013/tip/</a> </p>
<p class="p1">We would love to see local folks register for and attend the meeting, tutorials and workshops. A few additional special options for students and locals:</p>
<p class="p1">VOLUNTEERS - We need volunteers to assist with the conference in various capacities. This is a unique opportunity to participate and interact with the leading Internet network engineers and researchers as they showcase their "bleeding edge" applications and discoveries. By volunteering to work for a minimum of 10 hours, you will receive a cool TIP 2013 staff polo shirt. We'll try to schedule you to support sessions you are most interested in. Sign up to volunteer at: <a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/tip2013/volunteers.html">http://www.hawaii.edu/tip2013/volunteers.html</a></p>
<p class="p1">STUDENTS - There's a special discounted rate of $150 for FULLTIME students to attend. You'll need to provide documentation on-site to prove your status. You can get the student registration rate by using a special Registration Code during the online registration process: u4e629</p>
<p class="p1">ONE DAY RATE - There's a special rate if you just want to attend one day. For this option, send email to tip2013-questions@internet2.edu to request details </p>
<p class="p1">Hope to see you there!</p>
<p class="p1">david</p>UH and 28 universities launch Gig.U initiative to bring ultra high-speed broadband to university communitiestag:www.techhui.com,2011-07-29:1702911:BlogPost:890172011-07-29T22:56:56.000ZDavid Lassnerhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidLassner
<p>Short story: visit <a href="http://www.gig-u.org/">http://www.gig-u.org</a></p>
<p>Longer story (our press release):</p>
<div><p>The University of Hawaiʻi is one of a group of 29 universities and communities across the country that have launched Gig.U: The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project. </p>
<p>Gig.U seeks to accelerate the deployment of ultra high-speed networks in the communities surrounding the nation’s leading research universities to drive economic growth and…</p>
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<p>Short story: visit <a href="http://www.gig-u.org/">http://www.gig-u.org</a></p>
<p>Longer story (our press release):</p>
<div><p>The University of Hawaiʻi is one of a group of 29 universities and communities across the country that have launched Gig.U: The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project. </p>
<p>Gig.U seeks to accelerate the deployment of ultra high-speed networks in the communities surrounding the nation’s leading research universities to drive economic growth and stimulate a new generation of innovations addressing critical needs, such as health care and education, that will in turn drive demand for higher speed networks to residences and businesses.</p>
<p>“America's research universities must be a vital force in promoting innovation in our communities and for the nation” said UH President M.R.C. Greenwood. “This includes helping the U.S. regain global competitiveness in broadband, which has emerged as critical 21st-century infrastructure for improvement of the human condition through advances in education, health care, public safety, sustainability, civic engagement, entertainment and economic development.” </p>
<p>Universities already depend on high-speed networks to educate, collaborate and share large amounts of information instantaneously, and university research has fueled the growth of the global information economy. Yet today’s marketplace in the U.S. does not provide the nation with globally competitive services at affordable prices. Gig.U’s mission is to create a favorable climate for next generation network test-beds in university communities and trigger a new generation of ultra high-speed networking offerings that can then extend further into states, regions and the nation.</p>
<p>“We are delighted to join with our colleagues to create Gig.U, a bold new initiative designed to help our communities and our country take a vital step forward through new public-private partnerships,” commented David Lassner, UH's VP for information technology and chief information officer, who also served as chair of the Hawaiʻi Broadband Task Force. “Hawaiʻi, along with most of the U.S., continues to lag the leading economies of the world in the availability of affordable high-speed broadband services.”</p>
<p>Gig.U universities and their surrounding communities believe they present highly favorable conditions to support market-based, ultra high-speed broadband services, including relatively dense populations and high demand from local residents and businesses. University communities around the country have long served as partners and test-beds for advances in market segments ranging from healthcare and education to technology and energy. </p>
<p>Through an open request for information (RFI) process, Gig.U will gather data on these specific segments with an intent to enable competition to bring high-speed networks to research communities. The group aims for the RFI process to then translate into tailored requests for proposals for the deployment of leading edge networking technology to campus communities in a matter of years rather than decades. </p>
<p>The Gig.U approach is designed to build on foundations already in place, such as the community organizing done in Hawaiʻi and elsewhere for the Google Community Fiber initiative. Gig.U plans to identify where a relatively small amount of financial and/or political capital can create an environment in which there are sufficient incentives to provide next-generation services. The Gig.U effort begins with university communities as exemplars to demonstrate models and possibilities that can extend to additional communities, states, regions and the nation.</p>
<p>Lassner noted that Gig.U has already received expressions of support from current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioners and past FCC chairs from both parties, as well as leaders from industry, government and the non-profit sector. “While many countries have achieved phenomenal progress and leapfrogged the U.S. through direct governmental action, we hope this new approach creates and proves some new paths forward that will work in our unique marketplace,” said Lassner.</p>
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<p>Gig.U has issued an open invitation to other research university communities to join the initiative. Gig.U is being directed for the membership by Blair Levin of the Aspen Institute. Levin was most recently responsible for the development of the U.S. National Broadband Plan at the FCC. Lassner serves on the Administration Committee for Gig.U.</p>
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<p> </p>Kansas City (Kansas) Picked for Google Fiber Projecttag:www.techhui.com,2011-03-30:1702911:BlogPost:783652011-03-30T17:17:58.000ZDavid Lassnerhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidLassner
<p>The announcement at last: </p>
<p><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/ultra-high-speed-broadband-is-coming-to.html" target="_blank">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/ultra-high-speed-broadband-is-coming-to.html</a></p>
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<p>I'm now working with a group that will try to apply some of the lessons learned through the Google initiative to develop more ultra-high-speed broadband communities around universities. Stay tuned!</p>
<p>The announcement at last: </p>
<p><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/ultra-high-speed-broadband-is-coming-to.html" target="_blank">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/ultra-high-speed-broadband-is-coming-to.html</a></p>
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<p>I'm now working with a group that will try to apply some of the lessons learned through the Google initiative to develop more ultra-high-speed broadband communities around universities. Stay tuned!</p>Google Delays Selection of Fiber Projects to "early 2011"tag:www.techhui.com,2010-12-17:1702911:BlogPost:708442010-12-17T18:07:32.000ZDavid Lassnerhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidLassner
<p>From: <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fiber.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fiber.html</a></p>
<h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fiber.html">An update on Google Fiber</a></h2>
<div class="post-body"><div class="date-header">12/15/2010 09:04:00 AM</div>
Earlier this year we <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html">announced…</a></div>
<p>From: <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fiber.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fiber.html</a></p>
<h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fiber.html">An update on Google Fiber</a></h2>
<div class="post-body"><div class="date-header">12/15/2010 09:04:00 AM</div>
Earlier this year we <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html">announced</a> an experiment we hope will help make Internet access better and faster for everyone: to provide a community with ultra high-speed broadband, 100 times faster than what most people have access to today.<br/><br/>This week I joined Google as vice president of Access Services to oversee the Google Fiber team. Over the past several months I’ve been following the progress the team has already made—from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXMe6WGa84I">experimenting</a> with new fiber deployment technologies here on Google’s campus, to <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/bringing-ultra-high-speed-broadband-to.html">announcing</a> a “beta” network to 850 homes at Stanford—and I’m excited for us to bring our ultra high-speed network to a community.<br/><br/>We had planned to announce our selected community or communities by the end of this year, but the level of interest was <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/next-steps-for-our-experimental-fiber.html">incredible</a>—nearly 1,100 communities across the country<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqwjjfKRgb0">responded</a> to our announcement—and exceeded our expectations. While we’re moving ahead full steam on this project, we’re not quite ready to make that announcement.<br/><br/>We’re sorry for this delay, but we want to make sure we get this right. To be clear, we’re not re-opening our selection process—we simply need more time to decide than we’d anticipated. Stay tuned for an announcement in early 2011.<br/><br/><span class="byline-author">Posted by Milo Medin, Vice President, Access Services</span></div>
<p> </p>Marc Benioff: "I attribute Salesforce's great performance to my ability to work in Hawaii."tag:www.techhui.com,2010-07-24:1702911:BlogPost:648312010-07-24T17:44:59.000ZDavid Lassnerhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidLassner
Check out this interview with Marc Benioff in which he comments on living/working part-time in Kona.<div><br></br></div>
<div><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggWWrOSPpmhugojQ7As4U7jMO6SgD9H47S580">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggWWrOSPpmhugojQ7As4U7jMO6SgD9H47S580</a></div>
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<div>Here's the part about Hawaii:…</div>
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Check out this interview with Marc Benioff in which he comments on living/working part-time in Kona.<div><br/></div>
<div><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggWWrOSPpmhugojQ7As4U7jMO6SgD9H47S580">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggWWrOSPpmhugojQ7As4U7jMO6SgD9H47S580</a></div>
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<div>Here's the part about Hawaii:</div>
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<div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">"When he's not traveling around the world to meet customers, Benioff gets much of his work done at the Hawaii getaway he built with his estimated fortune of $1.3 billion. It's where he spends about one-fourth of his time, relying on a high-definition video feed that keeps him wired with Salesforce's San Francisco headquarters and other offices.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">"Nothing will help you let go faster than swimming alongside a pod of dolphins," Benioff told The Associated Press during a recent video interview from Hawaii. "It's an amazing experience. It connects you back to what's really important."</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Here are excerpts from the interview with Benioff, who wore a "Relax" T-shirt as a wooden Buddha figure loomed in the background.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Q: Do you get good ideas when you're swimming with the dolphins?</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">A: I have gotten some of my best insights when I have been able to surrender myself to nature like that. I attribute Salesforce's great performance to my ability to work in Hawaii.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I try to adopt a Zen perspective of a beginner's mind. And I think the best way to get a beginner's mind is to get to an environment like this where you can kind of let go."</p>
</div>Hawaii Broadband Task Force Report Nearing Completiontag:www.techhui.com,2008-12-01:1702911:BlogPost:273342008-12-01T06:43:40.000ZDavid Lassnerhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidLassner
The Hawaii Broadband Task Force was created by the 2007 Legislature to recommend how to improve broadband access in Hawaii. It has been a long road and there's always more to do. But our final report is due next month and deadlines work wonders.<br />
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A few quick summary comments:<br />
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* Broadband is fundamental to advances in education, health care, public services and economic development;<br />
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* Broadband needs to be viewed as 21st century infrastructure rather than left to be deployed as private…
The Hawaii Broadband Task Force was created by the 2007 Legislature to recommend how to improve broadband access in Hawaii. It has been a long road and there's always more to do. But our final report is due next month and deadlines work wonders.<br />
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A few quick summary comments:<br />
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* Broadband is fundamental to advances in education, health care, public services and economic development;<br />
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* Broadband needs to be viewed as 21st century infrastructure rather than left to be deployed as private investors find favorable relative to other opportunities;<br />
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* While Hawaii does adequately on some measures relative to other states and poorly on others, our real target needs to be catching up with the global leaders where 100Mbps and even 1Gbps is being deployed to consumers at prices comparable to our DSL and cable modem services.<br />
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The current draft is available at http://www.hbtf.org. And the report will serve as fodder for much more public discussion (sausage-making) at the 2009 Legislature.<br />
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Best, David<br />
(Disclosure: Task Force Chair)