Case Study ofA High Speed

NetworkPresented by

Gary Desler, VP SAIC5 December 2009

About Me About SAIC About the Project Was State Project Goals Design Trade-Offs The Design Results Q/A

Agenda

Nearly 50 years of electronic and computer experience

Founder of Network Solutions Responsible for the winning and executing

the project we will discuss Currently Project Manager for next

generation (Block IIF) of GPS satellites

About Me

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. For more information, visit www.saic.com.

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Clark County, Nevada School District Las Vegas Metro ~ 300 Locations several

hundred square miles Request for Proposals issued early 1999 Ten Proposals Received Initial Award to write project plan and

complete detailed design Second Award to Implement the Network

About the Project

Was State

One or more T1’s for Internet

High School, T1s forVoice

Elementary, 4 POTs lines Videos Delivered by car

Voice

Fractional T1 for data

Voice◦ Phone in every classroom

Internet◦ Increased Bandwidth to each school

Administrative Data Network◦ Increased Bandwidth to each school

Video◦ Delivery on Demand

abilties◦ Availability, reliability, affordability, usability

Project Goals

Status Quo◦ Increase bandwidth of existing system

Telephone Architecture◦ SONET Rings, ATM Switches

Private Microwave Ethernet Architecture

◦ Dark Fiber, gigabit and 10gigabit Switches

Design / Architecture Trade-Offs

The Design / Is State

Gigabit fiber rings enables:◦ Voice over IP & on-net dialing◦ Data / Internet◦ Server Consolidation◦ Video Distribution

Results

Phone in every classroom VOIP Trunk Lines On-Net Dialing

Voice

All data traffic uses IP Each network node at least gigbit backbone

Data / Internet

No reason to have a server in the schools◦ Most servers in unconditioned closets

Brought all servers back into conditioned server farms◦ No truck rolls, backups nightly, skilled IT support

Servers

Thousands of hours of instructional “tapes” on-line

Streaming video from several internal sources

Available bandwidth for nearly 1000 fold expansion

Video

CCSD has the most advanced communication network possibly in the world

Faster, better and cheaper due to the vision of SAIC and the use of long term commitments for dark fiber

Summary