Lighting the Next-Generation Network Across

Texas

DOSAR IIUniversity of Texas at Arlington

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3-31-06Akbar kara

Research andDevelopment

Commercialization

Prototypes

Privatization

Development Spiral

The Internet

Source: Ivan Moura Campos

Internet2

NLR NLR

ARPANET NSFNET

ANS, PSI,SprintNet etc.

TransportGrid NLR

Pick your Intranet

?Internet2

?

Revisiting the stack

Transport

Internet service

Applications you useE-mail, Web, etc.

Transport

Quantitative and qualitative comparisons

T1 DS3 OC3 OC12 1 gig

10 gig

Proposed LEARN connections

Some milestones 2005

Jan. 30 - Staff #2 on board Feb. 28 - TEF agreement signed April 5 - Money in the bank June 24 - First Light October 21 – “triangle” contracts completed

2006 Jan 1, half time accounting manager June, full-time Chief Technologist

Today 7 cities have LEARN light We’re about half lit

Oh what a relief it is

Post - LEARN

Pre - LEARN

Current “triangle”

91.53

Reagan

62.86

Navasota

Hearne

Waco

Hillsboro

Alvarado

Waller NorthOADM

College StationOADM

AustinUT

OADM

AustinL3

AMP

AMP

Fort Worth

Itasca

Bartlett

Kingsbury

Giddings

Brenham

Waller South

Hunter

64.51

46.6

49.12

60.0

30.54

26.74

62.39

71.9

87.3249.0 est.

45.19 est.

105.24

93.2

77.54

77.3

Legend:Blue lines = West Leg

Red lines = South and East leg

72.5

70.11

71.27

62.30

EAST

EAST

EAST

EAST

EAST

EASTEAST

WESTEAST

EAST

EAST

EAST

EAST

EAST

EASTEAST

EAST

EAST

EAST

EAST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

WEST

Grande Fiber

GATTN Fiber

WEST

DallasWilTelOADM

WacoOADM

San AntonioWilTelOADM

San AntonioL3

EAST

64.2

AM

P

19.9

19.9

87.3

HoustonOADM

Corpus ChristiOADM

MidlandOdessa

Lubbock

Amarillo

El Paso

Denton

Fort Worth Dallas

LongviewTyler

NacogdochesWaco

Austin

San Marcos

San Antonio

Laredo

EdinburgHarlingen

Brownsville

KingsvilleCorpus Christi

Houston

Galveston

Beaumont

College Station

Waller

Production FiberTesting Fiber

Characterized awaiting EquipmentContracted – NOT characterized

NO Contract

LEARN Fiber IRU(solid line)

LEARN Leased Lambda or Service(dashed line)

WichitaFalls

Status

Contacts

Jim Williams, LEARN jwilliams@tx-learn.net

Akbar Kara, LEARNakara@tx-learn.net

Gary Wiggins, UTPA (NextLight)garywiggins@utpa.edu

Rod Zent, TAMU (NextLight) r-zent@tamu.edu

LEARN Baylor University Baylor College of Medicine Lamar University Northeast Texas Consortium

(NETnet) Prairie View A&M University Rice University Sam Houston State University Southern Methodist University Stephen F. Austin State

University Texas A&M University Texas A&M University System Texas A&M University System

Health Science Center Texas A&M University-Corpus

Christi Texas Association of

Community Colleges Texas Christian University Texas State University - San

Marcos Texas Tech University Texas Tech University System

University of Houston System University of North Texas

System University of Texas at

Arlington University of Texas at Austin University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at El Paso University of Texas Health

Science Center at Houston University of Texas Health

Science Center at San Antonio

University of Texas Health Center at Tyler

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

University of Texas - Pan American

University of Texas at San Antonio

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

University of Texas System