Change Telecommunications to a funded or partially funded department. Network Funding Models Other Universities Julio Facelli distributed a handout providing network funding information on ten peer universities. He said that most institutions are moving to provide services beyond the backbone because of economies of scale and issues of security. There is no single trend among our peer institutions. All models are complex and designed to accommodate the specific needs of very individual local environments.
Most institutions have a method for rationing network resources.
To accommodate a good model will entail high level discussion, a willingness to compromise and some pain and suffering. There is a trend to integrate data and voice network services. Most institutions use some type of subsidy from the voice network to fund the data network. Many points and questions emerged from the discussion following Dan Patterson's and Julio Facelli's presentations. If charges for campus telephones become too expensive, departments will switch to using cell phones and we will lose income.