These campuses are likely to come online somewhat slowly. Carey mentioned that he and Glyn had attended several meetings of this mid- Hudson group. The other campuses in the area want very much to move forward into LAIP and lack a suitable host site. Also, with new developments in the SUNY Central LAN, the SLSC can connect on what is basically a T-1 service. In addition, there is space for the equipment and experienced staff.
Service is the bottom line, balanced out by cost.
Larry Randall raised the issue of disaster treatment, particularly at hosts servicing several sites. This was briefly discussed. Carey briefly discussed the technical meeting recently hosted by DEC on their new Alpha platform. There was a meeting afterward to discuss what was needed to bring multiLIS onto to Alpha. LAIP probably does not need to go much beyond 8 clusters, due to the number of campuses who want to participate and the new hardware capacity.