Pat Burns

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SCONE Networking Meeting

• Pat Burns
• Vice President for IT
• Colorado State University
• Haehn CommunitY Room, Dwire Hall 204
• Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• 1100 AM to 200 PM
• Please bring a brown bag lunch

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Attendees

• Alan Ashurst and Danny Parks, OIT
• Pat Burns and Scott Baily, CSU
• Ray Caplinger and Dennis Shultz, District 11
• Jeff Custard Marla Meehl, NCAR/UPOP
• Dan Maas, CASE
• Dan Morris, CDE

• David Niccoli, CSU-Pueblo
• Jeff Pearson, Mesa County Schools
• Jon Saunders, SECOM
• Denise Shorey, EagleNet
• Randy Stiles, Colorado College
• Kent Tamsen, CALET
• Jerry Wilson, UCCS

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Agenda

• Introductions
• Purpose of meeting Burns
• Backbone network Scott Baily, David Niccoli
• Possible topology Jeff Custard
• SECOM discussion Jon Saunders
• Cost models Jeff Custard
• Other
• Adjourn

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Introductions
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Purpose of Meeting Burns

• Alan Ashurst MNTs strategy
• Is there a fit for providing UPOP services in
  the 791 LATA via SCONE or otherwise? - Burns
• Jeff Custard UPOPs strategy, SEGP
• Kent Tamsen interest from K-12
• CDE comments
• Others comments

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Purpose of Meeting Burns

• Alan Ashurst MNTs strategy
• Is there a fit for providing UPOP services in
  the 791 LATA via SCONE or otherwise? - Burns
• Jeff Custard UPOPs strategy, SEGP
• Kent Tamsen interest from K-12
• CDE comments
• Others comments

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B. Is There a Fit? Burns

• Access to national RE networks
• Multi-homed to Commodity, automatic fail over
• Dialable capacity in 1 Mbps increments
• Takes 1 hour to adjust capacity
• Summer savings
• Intra-FRGP traffic
• Free
• Can burst to circuit capacity, e.g. 1 Gbps
• High quality (e.g. video conferencing,
  multimedia work)
• Community membership and evolution toward Next
  Generation Optical Networking
• Some circuits can be shared, lowering costs and
  increasing capacity
• A way for us to make progress, on NGN as a state

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Single-circuit Connectivity Pricing

• Qwest pricing looks attractive, on the surface,
  but
• Capacity is not shared
• A site must order sufficient capacity to burst to
  its maximum rate, or limit functionality
• Consider pricing for shared circuits/services
• EC BOCES at 1 Gbps through SCONE, Commodity only
• EC BOCES includes 17 rural school districts
• SCONE total aggregate connectivity at 30 Mbps
• We advertised 100-150/Mbps-mo (FRGP raw
  pricing)
• Instead, via aggregation, EC BOCES pricing
  averages closer to 15/Mbps-mo see slide on
  next page
• UPOP pricing should be examined in this light

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Disconnected Optical NetworksNeed an Inventory
to Define Possibilities
EC BOCES
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Purpose of Meeting Burns

• Alan Ashurst MNTs strategy
• Is there a fit for providing UPOP services in
  the 791 LATA via SCONE or otherwise? - Burns
• Jeff Custard UPOPs strategy, SEGP
• Kent Tamsen interest from K-12
• CDE comments
• Others comments

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Agenda

• Introductions
• Purpose of meeting Burns
• Backbone network Scott Baily, David Niccoli
• Possible topology Jeff Custard
• SECOM discussion Jon Saunders
• Cost models Jeff Custard
• Other
• Adjourn

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Backbone NetworkBaily, Niccoli

• SCONE overview
• Level3 back-up circuit
• Separate VLANs for transport
• Secondary routing for redundancy
• Management and operations

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SCONE Overview

• Southern Colorado Optical Network for Education
• Partnership between CDOT and Higher Ed
• CDOT provided right of way, infrastructure
  including fiber
• Higher Ed provided design, labor (splicing), and
  50K
• Approximately 70K in equipment was funded by the
  participants

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SCONE Participants

• Colorado State University
• Ft. Collins, Pueblo, System Office
• University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• East Central BOCES

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SCONE Topology September, 2008 (approx.)
CU HSC
FRGP
Level3 Backup Circuit
Mon. Hill
UCCS
Traffic Op. Ctr.
CSU-P
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Basic Architecture

• Gigabit Ethernet from Denver to Pueblo
• Multiple VLANs, one for each site
• Most efficient use of fiber
• Very cost effective
• Pueblo-Denver Backup circuit via Level3
• Metro Ethernet Service
• Currently capped at 100 Mbps
• Automatic Fail-over

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Management and Operations

• Monitored and Managed by CSU NOC
• Most end sites do their own monitoring/alerting
• Best effort support
• Rely upon local staff in some situations
• Remote hands support, diagnostics, equipment
  swaps
• Web page maintained at CSU
• Contacts, Diagrams, Changes, Outages

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Possible Topology Jeff Custard

• Benefits of FRGP participation aggregation, free
  peering, services, I2 access, ...
• Use SCONE for transport across the LATA
• Explore local connection options
• QMOE across the LATA
• UPOP place Ethernet switches for aggregation at
  UCCS and CSU-P

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SECOM Jon Saunders

• Use of SECOM fiber span to L3 service?
• Peering with the FRGP
• Possible interconnect with VNETS at Cheyenne
  Wells
• Possible future collaboration for SCONE and SECOM
  for back-up services

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Cost Models

• UPOP costs Jeff Custard
• SCONE cost sharing discussion all

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QA

• Are most welcome.