Northeast Service Cooperative

Northeast Minnesota Middle Mile Fiber Project

Middle Mile The Northeast Service Cooperative

designed a broadband infrastructure project, called the Northeast Middle Mile Fiber Project, to make dark fiber, wavelength services available to the public sector and to private sector technology service providers in unserved and underserved rural areas of Northeast Minnesota.

Project Facts

Developed and deployed by the Northeast Service Cooperative

$43 federal investment in Northeast Minnesota(50/50 Grant/Loan)

915 miles of fiber optic cable 14 Optical Transport Network Facilities

throughout the region. Anchors connected with a minimum

Gigabit (1000Mbps) Connectivity andup to 10Gbps

2.8 Terabit current core switching capacityusing DWDM technology.

Project Map

Fiber Optic Backbone The Northeast Minnesota Middle Mile Fiber Project expands into eight counties in northeastern Minnesota including: St. Louis, Lake, Cook, Pine, Itasca, Aitkin, Koochiching

and Carlton. The network is designed to provide

redundancy and extend connectivity to underserved and unserved areas.

Project Facts Connects about 250 critical service sites

across the region including: 3 sovereign nations 18 college and university sites 8 counties 18 independent school districts 25 health care facilities 26 community libraries More than 150 state, county and city sites

including Duluth and St. Louis County

Regional Fiber Project NSAs – Share of Total Project

Project Facts Construction will span at least 3 seasons

involving 9 regional subcontractors and providing hundreds of seasonal construction jobs at prevailing wages

Scheduled for substantial completion (90%) by November 15, 2013

Full Completion by end of 2014

Last-Mile Connectivity Long term (20+ year) carrier level public/private

partnerships Agreements are in the form of; joint construction,

capacity exchange and Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU). Allow for extension of cost effective fiber based service

to both commercial private business and potential future residential customers.

Private partners include; Frontier Communications , ACS and Compudyne with others pending.

Public partners include ; AEC-Cook County (USDA) and Merit Networks (NTIA)

Planning Goals for NESC Primary:

Complete construction/connections for the broadband project. Final completion of the USDA project in 2014.

Address immediate requests by current members for network expansion

Network service and support Continue to Expand both

Public/Private Partnerships Full operations of regional

NAP Exchange with connectionsto MPLS, Chicago and Canada.

Planning Goals for NESC

Secondary: LAN consulting, design and engineering including

cabling integration and deployment and mobile/wireless solution design and deployment

Equipment inventory for purchase, lease, service and support beyond the core

Identify shared resources, best practices and economies of scale in technology among all members of the regional network

Identify and serve new members in the regional network.

Planning Goals for NESC Tertiary:

Virtualization deployment and management

Data, server and application hosting, storage, transport, licensing and security

Integrated communications at the site, in the community and across the region (distance

Project Questions?

Contact: Paul Brinkman, Chief Executive Officer

218-748-7603, paulb@nesc.k12.mn.us

Lyle MacVey, Chief Technology Officer 218-748-7623, lmacvey@nesc.k12.mn.us

Melissa Cox, Communications Coordinator 218-748-7603, mcox@nesc.k12.mn.us