If the money now being spent on connectivity continues to be spent on connectivity, presumably on more connectivity or higher bandwidth, what will keep prices from rising over time?
The power of consortium purchasing coupled with the downward trend in pricing and healthy competition in the marketplace will work to keep costs at the same levels they are at now. 8 or 10 years ago we paid the same prices we are paying today for connectivity but were getting only a fraction of the bandwidth. In 1992, a 56Kb dedicated data line cost $30,000. Today $30,000 buys 1.5Mb, a 27fold improvement in data speed. Tomorrow, the same money will buy data speeds that are comparably greater. With the TAP grant we will be able to purchase tomorrow s bandwidth today moving the whole college community a bit further ahead in terms of connectivity. We expect to maintain existing budget costs and increase the network availability to accommodate the increasing requirements for learning.
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