Feasibility Study for a Statewide Higher Education Information Technology
Network
State of Connecticut, September 18, 1996
Applications of a Statewide Network - Other States
Network infrastructures have been used in other states to offer the following
services:
- Data Transfer
- Communication between host systems at different colleges (Florida,
Kentucky, and Utah)
- Transfer of records between state agencies (Maine, and North Carolina)
- Video Services
- Video-conferencing (Florida, and Maine)
- Telejustice (Iowa, New Jersey, and North Carolina)
- Telemedicine (Georgia, Iowa, and North Carolina)
- Voice Communications (Florida)
- Centralized Internet Access (Florida, Iowa, Maine, and Utah)
- Distance Learning
- Foreign language classes (Georgia)
- Marine/animal research courses (Georgia)
- MBA programs with local companies (Maine)
- Robotics classes (New Jersey)
- Classes in psychiatry, surgery, and internal medicine (Utah)
- Remote dial-in (Florida, Iowa, Michigan)
- Shared Administrative Resources
- Consolidated back office for all community colleges (Iowa)
- Shared systems for state government (Maine)
- Bulletin Boards (Maine)
- On-line information
- Access to library and archived resources (Iowa, New Jersey, and North
Carolina)
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