Alberts, Pati -- Arkansas Video Network Statistics -- 2009

Volume 1, Issue 5

Winter 2009

From a Distance...

Online Newsletter for Arkansas Distance Learning

Arkansas Video Network Statistics -- 2009
by Pati Alberts

For those of you that missed the 2009 ARDLA Conference, below are the highlights from the State of Network Address that Max Kolstad gave, on my behlf, at the conference. I hope you find these statistics helpful when bragging about what a great Distance learning Network the State of Arkansas has!

How Big is the Network?
For September 2009,

there were 90 H.320 sites, down 24 sites from September 2008;
there were 461 H.323 sites, up 28 from September 2008;

Of the 461 H.323 sites in September,

86 sites were Higher Ed, down 5 sites from 2008
18 sites were Medical, down 13 sites from 2008
119 sites were State Agencies, including ADE, educational co-ops, and the Department of Corrections, up 5 from 2008
328 sites were K-12, up 17 from 2008

Growth Statistics	Sept 2007	Sept 2008	Sept 2009
Fall Semester Conferences Scheduled	30,075	30,778	33,449
Number of Conferences run per week, Fall	1587	1732	1882
Number of conferences run during September	6347	7286	7948
Number of Sites in Conference per month	20,089	25,222	26,041
Number of Conference Hours per month	21,046	25,144	25,664
Average Number of Conferences per day	335	348	378
Largest Number of Conferences per day	348	363	396

Weekly Conference Count	Sept 2007	Sept 2008	Sept 2009
Monday	343	354	384
Tuesday	340	349	382
Wednesday	344	360	388
Thursday	341	356	385
Friday	306	320	343

Due to increased volume for the Fall 2009 Semester, almost every record high has been surpassed! Previously, the largest number of conferences held in a single month was 8070, in October 2008. In October 2009, we ran 8202 conferences! We also broke a record for the number of conferences run on a single day. On September 24th, 398 conferences were conducted on the network! We also expect to run in excess of 65,000 conferences in 2009.

If there are other statistics that would be helpful, please don’t hesitate to contact me at 314-235-3080 or pa6164@att.com and I will be happy to get the information for you if it is available.

About the Author

Karen Powers Liebahber For the past 28 years, Pati Alberts has worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone, SBC Communications, and now AT&T. In 1980, she was the first female Outside Plant Supervisor for Southwestern Bell Telephone. Today, Pati’s team consists of five highly skilled video conferencing experts. Mary Bizzle, Dean Coleman, Mike Gillam, and Sam Lin are located in St. Louis; Lee Gupton is located in Little Rock.

Pati graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics and from Webster University with a Masters Degree in Telecommunication Management. She has been married for 21 years to her husband Andy Horn. They currently have one dog, a Puggle named Abby. Andy and Pati drag race Harley Davidson motorcycles all over the U.S. Andy is the pilot; Pati is the crew chief and manager of A & H Racing.