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2008 StateNets Annual Meeting. Keeping Up with Network Backbone and Endpoint Traffic Growth AKA: Keeping Up with their Joneses. Basic problem. +40% annual growth & funding not growing at +40% annually Driven by video, social networking and our own success
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2008 StateNets Annual Meeting • Keeping Up with Network Backbone and Endpoint Traffic Growth • AKA: Keeping Up with their Joneses
Basic problem • +40% annual growth & funding not growing at +40% annually • Driven by video, social networking and our own success • Trust the network and are more willing to use ASP services
Basic problem • Competition in metro areas • Greater capacities are available in timely fashion • To date, unit costs have continued to decrease • We are being told to expect unit cost increases • Not the case in the underserved areas
Let there be light… • Building a DWDM optical network • Partnership with the University of Missouri • Moving core network from an asymmetric managed circuit gigabit backbone to uniform fiber facility • From all home-run circuits to selected local aggregation
Let there be light… • Phase 1:Building optical core network • 20 year IRU’s for dark fiber • SURA’s AT&T GridFiber • Sho Me Technologies for the rest of the core network • VPA for DWDM optical equipment
Let there be light… • Metro rings in hub cities • Carrier hotels for connections to commodity internet, major campus • Connection to Internet2 in Level 3 facility in KC
Let there be light II… • Phase II: Selected local aggregation • Working with both traditional and non-traditional telcomm providers: • Traditional telcos • Rural Electric Cooperatives • City utilities • Missouri Department of Transportation
Let there be light II… • Opportunities where they already exist – municipal fiber, public utilities with ready access to core network • Key members who can build to you • Resource inventory and encourage resource pooling/collaboration in segmented/partial solution communities • Facilitate community development for “greenfield” regions, be anchor tenant • Wireless solutions as stop-gap solutions
Old dogs, new tricks • Find the “right number” of technical solutions • New partnerships – MODoT, municipalities, cable companies • Community Development • Economic Development? • Public good or competitive engine?