Quilt Monthly Broadband Policy Memo – April 2022
Monthly broadband policy memos are prepared by Jeffrey A. Mitchell, Esq. of Mitchell Law, PLLC. The memos cover topics of interest to R&E networks.
Jeff Mitchell has been practicing telecommunications law since 1999 with a practice that now specializes in federal and state broadband policies and regulatory compliance. Jeff has successfully represented numerous statewide broadband healthcare networks that obtained federal funding through the Department of Commerce and the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Rural Health Care Program. Jeff has represented program participants in audits and recent FCC enforcement actions in the Rural Health Care program and advises numerous program participants regarding program compliance. Jeff advocates for a regional network trade association on federal broadband policy and has assisted the Schools Health Libraries & Broadband (SHLB) Coalition to influence FCC efforts to reform the Rural Health Care and E-rate programs. Jeff was previously an attorney at the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), the company that administers the FCC’s universal service programs. He was associate general counsel at USAC, the first director of outsourced beneficiary compliance audits, and directed the broadband infrastructure investment program known as the Rural Health Care Pilot Program.
Archive:
| Workshop Tutorial Title | Time | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tutorial 1 | Deploying Campus LLMs | Monday 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Coming Soon |
| Tutorial 2 | Open Science Data Federation (OSPool) | Monday 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Leveraging the OSPool for your Campus - If you plan to use the Open Science Pool (OSPool) (https://osg-htc.org/ospool) to meet the CC* requirement for sharing 20% of the capacity of your cluster, this tutorial was designed for you. The PATh (https://path-cc.io) team that operates the OSPool will explain how the service works and what is involved in joining the more than 80 institutions that are contributing capacity to the OSPool (https://osg-htc.org/ospool-map). The OSPool is part of a fabric of distributed services operated by the PATh project. These services include management of throughput workloads offered by Access Points and effective remote data access via the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF) (https://osg-htc.org/osdf). The tutorial will also review how researchers on your campus can benefit from these open services that served over the past year projects from more than 100 institutions (https://osg-htc.org/projects). |
| Tutorial 3 | OSDF | Monday 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Using the OSDF in your CC* Storage Project - Are you wondering how you can connect your CC* Storage project to the national cyberinfrastructure (CI)? This tutorial covers leveraging the capabilities of the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF) (https://osg-htc.org/osdf) to make 20% of your CC* funded storage capacity accessible to the national science & engineering community. With the help of a data distribution layer at two dozen storage locations across the globe, the OSDF facilitates delivery of scientific data from your project out to the national CI. The PATh (https://path-cc.io) team that operates the OSDF will explain how the service works and what is involved in joining the growing number of institutions contributing storage capacity to the OSDF (https://osg-htc.org/osdf-map). The OSDF is part of a fabric of distributed services operated by the PATh project. These services include management of throughput workloads offered by Access Points and processing capacity offered by the Open Science Pool (OSPool) (https://osg-htc.org/ospool). The tutorial will also review how researchers on your campus can benefit from these open services that served over the past year projects from more than 100 institutions (https://osg-htc.org/projects). |