Initial Metro Design

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Initial Metro Design

• The Quilt Fiber Workshop
• June 21-23, 2004

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Presentation Objective

• To share the technical design issues involved
  with implementing a metro RON with The Quilt
  Fiber Workshop participants

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The Vision

• Southern Light Rail (SLR)
• To create a distributed GigaPOP that will provide
  universities in the Southeast with regional
  access to Atlanta National LambdaRail (NLR) node

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Fiber Acquisition

• Respondents to the RFP
• Level 3
• Looking Glass Networks
• Above Net
• ATT
• Southern Telecommunications
• Xspedius Fiber Group
• Non-respondents
• AGL Networks

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Fiber Acquisition

• How the fiber was acquired RFP
• 30 Cost
• Mandatories
• 70 Desirables

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Fiber Acquisition

• MANDATORY GOODS / SERVICES
• Fiber Route Requirement
• Fiber Specifications
• Fiber Acceptance Testing Splicing
  Procedures/Standards
• System Implementation Date

• DESIRABLE GOODS / SERVICES
• Implementation Schedule Maintenance
• Scheduled Maintenance
• Unscheduled Maintenance
• Fiber Optic Cable Repair and Restoration
• Comprehensive Database Maintenance Costs

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Fiber Acquisition

• Fiber provider selected Level 3
• 3.08 mile fiber ring
• 12 fiber count

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Collocation

• 56 Marietta Street
• Existing reasonably priced fiber entrances
• Abundance of carriers (68)
• No cross connect fees
• 345 Courtland Street
• Costly fiber entrance laterals
• Limited carrier collocation
• Cross connect fees (NRC and MRC)

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Collocation 56 Marietta

• 360 Networks
• AboveNet
• AGL Networks
• Allegiance
• Alltel
• ATT / TCG
• Atlanta Broadband
• Atlanta Internet Exchange
• BellSouth
• Bright Star
• BroadView Networks
• Broadwing
• Cbeyond
• Cogent
• Digital Service Consultants
• Direct Partners Telecom
• Elantic
• Emory University
• Georgia Institute of Technology

• Great Access
• I2 Telecom
• Global NAPS
• Global Crossing ICG
• ICI Puritel
• Integrated
• ITC Deltacom
• JT Communications
• Knology
• Level 3
• LocalDial
• Looking Glass
• Marietta Fiber Net
• Matrix Resources Inc
• MCI/Worldcom
• McLeod
• MFS
• Morehouse School of Medicine
• Moxie Interactive

• OnFiber
• PAIX
• Performance IT
• Primus Telecom
• Progress Telecom
• Qwest
• Skiplink, LLC
• Southern Telecom
• Switch Data
• TelCove
• Telecom Access
• Telefyne
• Teleglobe
• TeliaSonera
• Time Warner
• Universal Access
• US Carrier
• UUNet
• Vespice Limited

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OM Decisions

• Fiber
• Level 3
• AGL Networks
• Equipment
• Self-maintained
• Spare modules
• Vendor technical support

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Initial Ideas on How to Light Fiber

• Georgia Tech to 56 Marietta
• AGL Networks fiber
• Movaz DWDM
• 56 Marietta to 345 Courtland
• Level 3 Fiber
• Phase 1
• Point-to-point fiber connection
• Phase 2
• DWDM

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Initial Ideas on How to Light Fiber
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Initial Ideas on How to Light Fiber
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Questions Comments
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