Entertainent On Demand is in Command

Created by Gregory H. Smith (George Fox University) on November 8, 2009

I just wrote the Post "Entertainent On Demand is in Command" for my blog http://ctoatgfu.blogspot.com. It focuses on our disappearing bandwidth being eaten up by our students for Internet On Demand Entertainment. The issue for many of us in Higher Ed is how much is enough. Again I think we are facing student Internet demand that we cannot satisfy. So what are our options? We will try to regulate usage with network segmentation and additional filtering options. But what about adding more bandwidth. For some that may not be a problem, but for us, even with aggressive Internet bandwidth pricing, I can't afford a whole lot more. We have talked about charging the students in some fashion. Another idea that I have been discussing with my ISP is bandwidth provisioning based on time of day. My ISP has a large customer base of business users who are not consuming bandwidth in the evening. We have identified that we (higher ed) are somewhat the opposite. So we are now trying to work out the logistics whereby I am given additional bandwidth say from 6 pm - 6 am for a greatly reduced rate. The problem is the network device provisioning, but it looks like we can figure this out.

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		Entertainent On Demand is in Command Created by Gregory H. Smith (George Fox University) on November 8, 2009 I just wrote the Post "Entertainent On Demand is in Command" for my blog http://ctoatgfu.blogspot.com. It focuses on our disappearing bandwidth being eaten up by our students for Internet On Demand Entertainment. The issue for many of us in Higher Ed is how much is enough. Again I think we are facing student Internet demand that we cannot satisfy. So what are our options? We will try to regulate usage with network segmentation and additional filtering options. But what about adding more bandwidth. For some that may not be a problem, but for us, even with aggressive Internet bandwidth pricing, I can't afford a whole lot more. We have talked about charging the students in some fashion. Another idea that I have been discussing with my ISP is bandwidth provisioning based on time of day. My ISP has a large customer base of business users who are not consuming bandwidth in the evening. We have identified that we (higher ed) are somewhat the opposite. So we are now trying to work out the logistics whereby I am given additional bandwidth say from 6 pm - 6 am for a greatly reduced rate. The problem is the network device provisioning, but it looks like we can figure this out. bandwidth \| Internet \| On-Demand Greg's blog Login or register to post comments 16 reads
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