Gaining Competitive Edge: Business Trends Driving Big Bandwidth in

Education

Overview• Broadband Initiatives• Impacts on Business Community, Trends,

and Applications• Destination: Innovation• SMB Cloud Market• Changing Consumption• Benefits

Benefit: Low Cost

NOW: 100 megabit connection $1,620/mo.

THEN: 100 megabit connection $5,600/mo.

Changing Lanes

What’s In What’s Out

Achieving strategic goals

Gaining a competitive edge

Reaching more customers

Slow speeds

Isolated applications

Browsing websites

New Jobs & Innovations• Chattanooga, TN• East Lansing, MI• Kansas City, KS and MO• Seattle, WA• Gainesville, FL• Bristol, VA• Champaign-Urbana, IL• Orono & Old Town, ME,

with UMaine

Destination: Innovation

E-mailGraphics

Streaming videoHosted applications

High-def videoMulti-server backup

TelemedicineGaming & distance learning

Desktop as a service (DaaS)

VoIP & hosted PBX

KBPS MGPS GPBS TBPS

Big data

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Innovation

Bandwidth-Enabled Innovations in EducationOnline Education

Hybrid Learning

Digital Libraries

Mobility

On-Campus IT

Educators reach students with interactive sessions at any location where Internet access is available.

Combined classroom & online education with systems like Blackboard or Moodle to provide videos of lectures, additional material, and interaction with educators.

Proliferation of digital content that is graphic rich and multi-media in nature.

Platforms provide instant notification to group members, foster collaboration and integrate with popular social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).Campus computing platforms host applications that require high bandwidth access for point-to-point, WAN, and public Internet connectivity.

Benefits of Cloud Computing

Profitfrom the cloud™ | 6Source: Parallels SMB Cloud Insights™ (Global), 2013

2012-2013 SMB Cloud Market: United StatesIn the US, the SMB cloud market has reached $19B, growing to $32B by 2016

Infrastructureas a Service

Hosted Communication& Collaboration

Web Presence& Web Applications

BusinessApplications

$15B in 2012

$19B in 2013

$32B in 2015

File Sharing

4

2012

Online backup& storage

Hosted email

InstantCollaboration

Profitfrom the cloud™ | 6Source: Parallels SMB Cloud Insights™ (Global), 2013

Top Trends: Changing ConsumptionSMBs continue to buy more services – increasingly SaaS

Web hosting

12009 2016

7 Payroll & HR

Online CRMInstant

Collaboration

Phoneconferencing

Support / helpdesk

Webconferencing

Accounting

Virtual desktop(VDI)

And many others…

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