PLANNING FOR THE 21ST-CENTURY - THE CALIFORNIA-STATE-UNIVERSITY

San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science an d the Office of the Chancellor in cooperation with industry partners d esigned and implemented a broadband network prototype to explore lever aging human and instructional resources among the 22 campuses of the C alifornia State University. With its current OC-3 capacity, the protot ype network is capable of supporting near-broadcast quality two-way in teractive video with simultaneous access to multi- and hypermedia reso urces across the network. Faculty and student collaborative work is fa cilitated by desktop video teleconferencing from faculty offices and s tudent computer labs.