Arizona Arizona Telecommunications!Telecommunications!

The Center for Computing & The Center for Computing & Information TechnologiesInformation Technologieshttp://www.ccit.arizona.edu

Fred Neasham, Technical Support Program Coordinatormailto:fred.neasham@arizona.edu

The State of ArizonaEducation Organizations

D epartm ent o f Education The Board o f C om m unity C o lleges

Joe l Va ldezSenior V .P . fo r F inance

V ice P rovost fo r I.T.

Pau l SypherdSenior V .P . & P rovost

Peter L ikensThe U niversity o f A rizona

C lara Lov ittN orthern A rizona U niversity

Lattie C oorArizona S ta te U n iversity

The A rizona Board o f R egents

Jane D ee H ullG overnor

The Arizona University System

              

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ Branch Campuses: ASU East , ASU West

                   

   

Northern Arizona UniversityFlagstaff, AZ Branch Campuses: Statewide Academic Programs

         

The University of ArizonaTucson, AZ Branch Campuses: Arizona International College, The University of Arizona South

The State of Arizona!

What covers half the northern border?What accounts for 2/3 of the topography?Where do interstate highways:– Originate? (States…)– Converge? (Cities…)

Where do most people live?What is the average temperature in SW corner for almost half the year?Who is the ILEC & where are the LATAs?

American Indian Nations - The 3rd largest population (U.S.A.)

Phoenix: One of 7 U.S. “City-States”

The Telephony Situation

ILEC is US WestLATAs– Independent– Phoenix– Los Angeles– Tucson

US West has most rural COs up for sale

Arizona Network HistoryState of Arizona “cost reduction”

proposals’87 Dept. of Public Safety - fails’89 Dept. of Admin. - fails’96 DOA recruits Educ. into Project Eagle – fails’99 DOA’s ATS - ???– Phoenix To Tucson ATM

backbone established– V/V/D traffic, US West cell relay

and frame relay to county seats, & dialup all planned

Education’84 NSF “WESTnet”– ’87 56Kb to U. of Utah– ’89, ’91 T1(s), T3 backbone

’90 Az Educ. Telecom Coop. - failed– NAU as “outreacher”, T3 Phx.-Flag.-

Tuc. never used

’93 WESTnet replaced by commercial Internet’97 “Az. Learning Sys.” - failed– Get 1 classroom video codec– All 10 Comm. College Dist.

’99 DoEd admin. Network - ???

Attitudes & Lessons

Health and Human Services – “Our data is too private to go on a shared network.”Public Safety – “Crisis control is mandatory – we are in charge!”Administration – “Telcos should charge one fee for rural and metro! Hmmm, no successful bids…”Transportation – “Require in-kind compensation for rights-of-way for an AZ network? Hmmm…”A Cost Reduction Mission Will Never Establish a New Infrastructure!

What Has Worked?

Quietly connecting up CC/K-12 districts, government IT shops, libraries, and community centers via NSF Connections and DoC TIIAP grants or E-Rate servicesExtension offices and

preceptor support in every county (land grant mission!)

The A.S.P.I.N. Network – an NSF ConnectionUniv. -> CC -> rural K-12 (& government)…

The UofA’s Data NetworksConnected to external networksCampuswide “inter-building” networkWorkgroup or Departmental Computer Connections

– Inter-networked to NSI (3Mb), the commercial Internet (45Mb), and the Internet2 (155Mb)

– Remote sites & State support

– “UAnet backbone network” (1 Gigabit/sec)

– Building infrastructure upgrades (redundant to UAnet, switched)

– Ethernet “walljacks” or ports (10 or 100Mb)

The UofA’s Data Customers

External3 National networks1 local peering pointPrivate Lines/Frame– 5 Community Or 4 Yr. Colleges– 11 K-12 Districts– 12 Government sites (3

Municipal, 1 County, 3 State, 5 Federal)

– CoAg/CoMed extensions in each county

– 3 branch campuses

Internal>200 buildings connected via 3 hub sites to a GigE backbone5 DNS (>800 subnets) and 1 DHCP server35,000 IP devicesDepartmental– 13000 ports shared 10BaseT– 13000 ports switched

10/100BaseT

The Arizona Regional TeleMedicine Network

The Arizona Telecommunications System

Arizona’s Department of Administrationhttp://www.ats.state.az.us/

– 1999 mandate - provide common Voice/Video/Data transport– Learned from failure of Project Eagle RFP– Build infrastructure where control exists today, lease services

elsewhere– Costs:

• Development & Implementation: $ 6.4M• Operations (5yr): $79M• Estimated Savings: $98M