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Feeding the Bandwidth Beast: Addressing Demand and

Reducing Cost through aCollaborative Network RedesignProject

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Emmanuel College (est.1919) Coeducational, liberal arts,Catholic college, ,!"#studentsMassachusetts College of Art &Design (est. 1873)

$nl% &ublic college o' art in ()*),coeducational,,+# graduate and undergraduatestudents

Massachusetts College of Pharmac an!"ealth #ciences (est. 18$3)Coeducational, three cam&uses, two in-assachusetts, one in New .am&shire/,0#0 graduate and undergraduate students

#immons College (est. 1899)(ndergraduate college 'or women,coeducational graduate &rograms1,!## graduate and undergraduatestudents%entorth 'nstitute of echnolog(est. 19*)Coeducational graduate and

undergraduate college, 'ocus onengineering and architecture/,0/+ graduate and undergraduatestudents

%heeloc+ College (est. 1888)Coeducational liberal arts college'ocus on %outh and 'amil%,,#12 graduate and undergraduatestudents



Colleges of the FenwayTotal enrollment: approximately 20,000 students

Location: a close geographic area on the Fenway, adjacent tomedical and cultural facilities, public transportation, in the heartof Boston

March 29, 1996 - The CF !rinciples of Collaboration signed

mar"ing the beginning of signi#cant Collaboration$ %& years

Goal: To add 'alue to student(s academic and co-curricularopportunities while see"ing inno'ati'e methods of in'esting inser'ices and containing the costs of higher education$

Services : Consortium includes ) The *lobal +ducationpportunities Center, ntramurals !rogram, !erforming rts!rogram, Training and .e'elopment !rograms, Center for/ustainability, Colleges of the Fenway rea etwor" andnumerous joint contracts and collaborati'e purchases, cross

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• Fun!tional limitations

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How To Tame the Beast?

• Repla!e E#0 Euipment

• Create a rue Di-erse Path

• %!!ess other ISPs• Impro-e sage $onitoring



RFP Pro!ess and Edu!ation



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February - CoFAN ISP Utilization - 95th Percentile

GTT - 1467 Mbps

Cogent - 771 Mbps

BostonIX - 976 Mbps

Akamai - 111 Mbps

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Than( you

Contact in=or)ation

Sean Phil#ott> .))anuel Colle%e

• #hil#ott$?e))anuel@eu

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Bebbie Pe##er> Colle%e$ o= the Fenay• #e##er?colle%e$-=enay@or%

mailto:[email protected]






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