Connecticut Education Network Project History Higher Education Initiative

Connecticut Education Network

Project History • • Higher Education Initiative Lt. Governor’s Proposal & Legislation Commission organization & tasks State Agency Involvement

Network Project Scope • • 1200+ K-12 Public School Buildings 70+ Private & Public Higher Education 300+ Libraries Others: RESC’s, Agencies. . .

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)

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

Short & Long Term Network Targets – Short term (2 Years) • Optical to every school district • T 1 to every doorstep (school, library, etc. ) • “Cloud” for K-12/Library Backbone for Hi. Ed – Long term (5 Years) • Optical to every doorstep • Scalable bandwidth on demand

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)

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

Next Steps • E-Rate • Initial Deployment • Content ?

Contacts: • Bob Dixon – Director, Enterprise Network Services (DOIT) – Robert. Dixon@po. state. ct. us • John Vittner – CEN Program Manager (DOIT) – John. Vittner@po. state. ct. us • Rob Vietzke – Network Architect (DOIT) – Rob. Vietzke@uconn. edu