Campus Infrastructure

1
Campus Infrastructure

• What is available and what are the plans.

2
Overview

• State of the current Network on campus
• Current off campus connectivity
• Planned off campus connectivity
• Regional Initiatives
• National Initiatives

3
Current Campus Network

• Fully redundant Gigabit Ethernet backbone.
• Able to extend the Gigabit backbone to any
  building on campus as needed.
• Able to provide Gigabit to the desktop in most
  buildings.

4
Research network connections

• Our Current connection is an OC-3.
• We are in the process of upgrading the Internet 2
  connection to an OC-12.
• This has been delayed by an issue obtaining
  access to the Internet 2 site in Kansas City.
• I believe this will be resolved in the next week
  or so.

5
Regional Initiatives

• MIDnet Inc. has issued an RFP for obtaining dark
  fiber in the Great Plains region.
• There were 5 responders.
• The evaluation of those responses is taking place
  right now.
• If a bid is accepted and UNL participates we will
  have access to dark fiber by the end of 2006.

6
Regional Initiative Costs

• We anticipate the first year costs to range from
  600,000 t0 750,000.
• Second year costs are estimated at 500,000.
• On-going costs will be much less.

7
National Initiatives

• Abilene and NLR are merging their efforts.
• Not yet clear exactly what this means to the
  connectors to Abilene or NLR
• Hopi
• Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure
• Dynamic Optical Networking

8
Futures

• With access to Dark Fiber we will be able to
  create, at little incremental cost, new
  connections for research projects as needed.
• The time frame for these will be days and weeks,
  not months.
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet on the Campus is possible
  with our infrastructure.