WASHINGTON DC NETWORK TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

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WASHINGTON DCNETWORK TECHNOLOGYOVERVIEW

• EDUCAUSE POLICY PANEL
• APRIL 26, 2006
• CHRIS PEABODY
• DEPUTY CTO NETWORK AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES
• Government of the District of Columbia
• chris.peabody_at_dc.gov

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Washington DC

• Unique
• City / County / State Governance (all in one)
• Executive Office of the Mayor
• 76 Agencies
• Elected City Council
• Independent Agencies
• Public Schools
• CFO
• Water and Sewer Authority (WASA)
• Major Federal Presence, Oversight and Funding
• Primary business is government
• No Smokestack industry allowed
• DHS is having a major impact on city
• Business is currently very good

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Washington DC.GOV Network

• Government presence in over 600 locations within
  the city.
• 40,000 DC.GOV Phone Lines
• 60,000 DC.GOV Data Ports
• Traditionally outsourced services to carriers
• In process of migrating onto private network

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Ultimate In-Source SolutionBuild it yourself!
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DC-NET Goals

• Build and maintain a comprehensive technology
  network that meets the needs of the ENTIRE
  District Government
• All voice services
• All data Intranet connectivity
• Enhance Public Safety applications
• Enhance Public Schools

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DC-NET Fast Facts

• DC Loves Teddy Roosevelt
• 1903 Statute required the phone company to
  provide conduit space for public safety use.
  Very powerful discovery!
• 80 mil multiyear project
• Local Capital dollars
• Some Federal dollars
• Goal is to be self sustaining by FY08
• Approximately 86 employees working on the project

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DC-NET Fiber

• SONET Fiber planned to all Govt locations
• 400 600 Govt sites across the city
• Currently at 165 buildings
• All citywide voice and data services at sites
  which make sense will eventually be riding
  these fully redundant SONET rings
• Some fiber deployed direct in Verizon Conduits
• Other fiber obtained via CATV Franchise
  Agreements
• Comcast
• RCN (formerly Starpower)
• Some original fiber purchased on IRUs

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DC-NET Replacing the Legacy Services

• Rapidly replacing legacy MAN circuits from
  Verizon
• District has hundreds of Point Point circuits
• Major Frame Relay networks installed today
• DC Gov still pays about 5mil/year for MAN
  circuits to Verizon

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DC-NET Voice Platform

• Avaya s8700 is core voice platform.
• 40,000 phones when complete. 
• 13,000 have been ported
• 25,000 ISDN/CENTREX remain
• 10 15 unused inventory discovered during
  cutovers
• Migration is very, very, VERY challenging

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911Unreliable vs Reliable Trunking
DC-NET Fiber
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DC-NET Citywide Motorola Radio System

• 42 Towers across the District
• Supports entire First Responder Community
• T1 Based Connectivity
• Cutover in a single weekend from Verizon
• Never Failed
• Adding 28 new circuits due to UCC building

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DC-NET WARN

• The Wireless Accelerated Responder Network (WARN)
  is the nations first city-wide broadband
  wireless public safety network.  This pilot
  network was unveiled in September 04 and was
  first operationally used in January, 2005 for the
  Inauguration followed by the State of the Union. 

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DC-NET WARN Network Attributes

• Covers 95 of the District - 700 Mhz
  experimental spectrum provided by the FCC
• Uplink rate  -- 900 kbps (peak)/300 kbps
  (average)
• Downlink rate -- 3 Mbps (peak)/900 kbps (average)
  
• Uses Flash/OFRM
• Full mobility (communications sustained while
  device mobile throughout the city)
• Dedicated Public Safety network no contention
  with cellular or commercial users.
• All IP network features include full quality of
  service (QOS) capabilities, and static IP
  addresses

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Public Schools Broadband Network

• 157 Public Schools
• Currently networked at sub T1 connectivity,
  except at High School (T3)
• Currently working on public private partnership
  with DC Based Broadband provider to network all
  157 based on DCNET backbone.

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Digital Divide WiFi Project

• Mayor gets calls and Emails every day
• Why does DC not have a network like Phili?
• Currently exploring win win options
• Looking for partners
• DC-NET will provide citywide backbone for network
  service partner. City will provide rooftop space
  for antennae's.
• Partner must provide services to the cities
  poorest first, including PCs and Training

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Thanks - Questions