Connecticut Education Network

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ConnecticutEducation Network
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Project History

• Higher Education Initiative
• Lt. Governors Proposal Legislation
• Commission organization tasks
• State Agency Involvement

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Network Project Scope

• 1200 K-12 Public School Buildings
• 70 Private Public Higher Education
• 300 Libraries
• Others RESCs, Agencies...

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Network Project Support

• Commission Executive Director
• Dept. of Information Technology
• Network Architect (1/2)
• Program Manager (1/2)
• Director of Enterprise Network Services (1/4)
• Body Shop Contract Employees (4)

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Network Services

• Base
• Internet Service for K-12 Library
• Digital Library Content
• Granular Filtering
• Inter District / Library / College Network
• Cost Sharing
• Internet 2
• Intra-Institutional Requirements
• Other buyers club opportunities

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Short Long Term Network Targets

• Short term (2 Years)
• Optical to every school district
• T1 to every doorstep (school, library, etc.)
• Cloud for K-12/Library Backbone for HiEd
• Long term (5 Years)
• Optical to every doorstep
• Scalable bandwidth on demand

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Current Network Activities

• K-12 Site Surveys/ Recommendations
• Library Surveys
• Higher Education Needs Analysis
• Backbone planning (Initial equip purchased)
• Network Services RFP (Evaluation)
• Dark Fiber RFP (On Street)
• Equipment RFP (Draft)

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Network Services

• Looking for Dark Fiber Services
• Break the bandwidth/cost relationship
• Reduce equipment costs
• Other impacts
• Distributed POPs -vs- Single Data center
• Firewalls
• Filtering
• ISP Services

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Next Steps

• E-Rate
• Initial Deployment
• Content ?

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Contacts

• Bob Dixon
• Director, Enterprise Network Services (DOIT)
• Robert.Dixon_at_po.state.ct.us
• John Vittner
• CEN Program Manager (DOIT)
• John.Vittner_at_po.state.ct.us
• Rob Vietzke
• Network Architect (DOIT)
• Rob.Vietzke_at_uconn.edu