NetCo/CoNet Lab Proposal

电信、计算机和媒体的融合技术正在为技术和社区学院创造新的业务、新的就业机会和新的学习课程。学生需要接触到数字电视、多媒体、无线、社区服务器、公共信息亭和观众反馈技术，才能成为未来信息基础设施的建设者，这是具有地方和地区经济发展和社区建设潜力的新的国家优先事项。该项目是在新的网络通信(NetCo)课程框架内组织的，该项目为这一高级技术教育领域的学生提供了装备，该课程既借鉴了农村社区网络(CoNet)，也为建设CoNet做出了贡献。该项目的一些设备用于大学电子实验室、计算机实验室和视频制作工作室，供NetCo学生学习三个专业：通信技术、多媒体软件和互动电视。设备也可以通过农村社区之间的链接共享，这构成了CONET模式。这种模式包括在不同地方的天线塔和公共电话亭上安装扩频收发机。这个Conet模型-影响残疾人、老年人、年轻人和特别偏远的家庭-包括局域网、广域网和城域网之间的新的RAN(农村区域网络)无线链路。1995年，市长、学校负责人、教师、图书管理员、县代理和商界人士参加了为期一周的暑期讲习班，学习如何在当地和地区建立CoNet。在1996-97年度，全州范围内的60名教师可以学习使用这种设备来支持NetCo课程。

The converging technologies of telecommunications, computers, and media are creating new businesses, new jobs, and new courses of study at technical and community colleges. Students need access to digital TV, multimedia, wireless, community server, public kiosk, and audience feedback technologies in order to become builders of future information infrastructure, a new national priority with local and regional economic development and community building potential. This project, which equips students in this area of advanced technological education, has been organized within the framework of a new networking communication (NetCo) curriculum that both draws upon and contributes to building rural community networks (CoNets). Some of the equipment for this project goes into college electronic labs, computer labs, and video production studios for NetCo students pursuing three study options: communication technology, multimedia software, and interactive television. Equipment can also be shared through links into and among rural communities, which make up a CoNet model. This model involves spread spectrum transceivers on antenna towers and public kiosks in various local sites. This CoNet model_impacting handicapped, elderly, young, and especially rurally remote families_includes new RAN (rural area network) wireless links among LANs, WANs and MANs. Mayors, school superintendents, teachers, librarians, county agents, and business people attended week-long summer workshops to learn how to initiate CoNets locally and regionally in 1995. In 1996-97, 60 faculty statewide can learn to use this equipment in support of NetCo curriculum.