Schools networks England RBC interconnection Scotland LA interconnection

Schools networks • England • RBC interconnection • Scotland • LA interconnection (? ) and transit • Wales • LLNW interconnection and transit 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 1

Regional Broadband Consortia • • • Cumbria Lancashire Education Online East Midlands Broadband Project East of England Regional NGf. L Broadband Consortium London Grid for Learning North West Learning Grid Northern Grid for Learning South East Grid for Learning South West Grid for Learning West Midlands Broadband Project Yorkshire and Humberside Community Grid for Learning 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 2

Context • Use of > 2 Mbps FEC links to MAN • particularly LES 2/10/100 • need for upgrade options for FECs • England only • Scotland, Wales: central initiatives with extra funds to RNOs • Northern Ireland: no MAN (yet) 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 3

Context … continued • FEC needs to be seen to pay for more than 2 Mbps to JANET • FEC UKERNA RNO £ flow must be self -funding • need to offer upgrades that are attractive to FECs - amount and price • Need reasonably simple scheme 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 4

LES 2/10 vs 2 Mbps serial • Use of LES 2/10 to reduce access cost • where cheaper than 2 Mbps serial links • RNO decision • RNO has freedom to police to 2 Mbps (in routers if it wants) • “benefit” to RNO: better management of telecomms. budget 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 5

Upgrade to 4 Mbps • FEC requests > 2 Mbps to JANET • request made to UKERNA (as provider of Primary Connection) • 2 2 Mbps implementation: payment to RNO as already established • LES 2/10 implementation: propose notional transit payment at £ 1, 274 per Mbps • RNO can police to 4 Mbps if wishes 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 6

Upgrade to 10 Mbps • Only where LES 2/10 available • propose addition to funding model: access based on BT tariff, plus transit assume 7 Mbps max. effective throughput additional £ 6, 370 transit contribution 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 7

Upgrade to 100 Mbps • Same model as for LES 2/10 • access based on BT LES 100 tariff • but transit based on JANET bandwidth agreed with FEC • MAN free to police through router • contractual proviso on FEC to purchase more bandwidth if it persistently runs above agreed amount on access link 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 8

High bandwidth FEC connections to MAN • … but not to JANET • e. g. for local collaborations, with high intra. MAN traffic flows • do we need to cater for this? • if so propose to make it the RNO’s responsibility to negotiate prices and to keep traffic to JANET to contracted level 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 9

Multi-site FEC connections • Propose to leave at MAN’s discretion whether to provide and at what price • where so, treat (largest site of) highest bandwidth connection(s) as the Nominated Connection 2 July 2002 UK MAN Managers' Group 10