Inter Governmental Network

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InterGovernmentalNetwork

• Past,
• Present,
• ?

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IGN History

• INPHO Information Network for Public Health
  Organizations
• Federal grant through Department of Health
• 1996 to San Juan 1997 complete
• Connected initially to 37 counties
• Full connection, not limited to Health Department
• Equipment and training at county state
• One year of operation

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IGN History

• INPHO becomes Inter-Governmental Network (IGN)
• State and Local Subcommittee of ACCIS and CAB
  became the de facto oversight group working with
  DIS
• Subcommittee created principles
• Subcommittee reviewed rates
• Subcommittee suggested procedures

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IGN Present

• Now fully connected to all counties and several
  cities
• State agencies participating as anchor tenants
• Department of Health (DOH)
• Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)
• Washington State Patrol (WSP)
• Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS)

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IGN Present

• Rates
• Basic of 220 or 320 per month
• Local pays for larger bandwidth
• Local pays for tail circuits to a POP
• Local pays for ISP other services separately

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IGN Connection

• Frame relay
• Basic level of 384Kbps, but closer to T1
• DIS owned point-of-presence in county (usually at
  county seat administration)
• Local jurisdiction pays for additional bandwidth
• IGN separated from Internet and State Government
  Network

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IGN

• Cities pay for circuit, port charges, and base
  where counties only pay for base
• Circuits are issue for cities, especially with
  multiple phone carriers

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IGN

• Modest network security
• Firewalls to internet
• Services
• Local agencies can use insideWashington
• Growth
• Bandwidth
• Internet web digital government

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IGN Issues

• State agencies creating bandwidth growth with web
  based applications
• Dependency by state and local agencies on IGN
• Anchor tenants

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IGN Issues

• New pressures
• Web applications
• Video
• Voice over IP
• Et. al.

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IGN IISubcommittee Review

• Scalability
• Reliability
• Security
• Service guarantees
• Paying customers
• free Internet
• Connection models
• Rate structure

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