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FiberCo/WaveCo Update
Joint Techs
July 16, 2007
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Internet2 FiberCo
• FiberCo’s mission is to serve the Internet2 research and education community by providing means and tools for the acquisition of dark fiber, as well as providing professional services to assist in managing and operating optical and networking infrastructure investments made by the community
• Initiated in 2003 to support optical initiatives in US R&E
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Dark fiber service offerings
• Provides a means for community to acquire dark fiber• By aggregating demand, negotiated deeply
discounted rates • As of Summer 2007, over 13,000 miles
assigned to members, played a part in other fiber acquisitions
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State and Regional Networks
• Alabama (Univ Alabama)• Arizona (CENIC)• Arkansas (AREON)• California (CENIC)• Colorado (FRGP/BRAN)• Connecticut (Conn. Education Network)• Florida (Florida LambdaRail)• Georgia (Southern Light Rail)• Great Plains Network (MIDnet)• Indiana (I-LIGHT)• Illinois (I-WIRE)• Kansas (KU, KSU)*• Louisiana (LONI)• Massachusetts (MIT)• Maryland, D.C. & northern Virginia (MAX)• Michigan (MiLR, MERIT)• Minnesota - Iowa- Wisconsin (BOREAS) • Missouri (MOREnet/UMo)*
• New England region (NEREN)• New Mexico (NMSU, UNM)• New York (NYSERNet, Cornell)• Nebraska (Univ. Nebraska)• North Carolina (NC LambdaRail)• Ohio (Third Frontier Network)• Oklahoma (OneNet)• Oregon• Pacific Northwest (Lariat – NIH BRIN,
PNNL)• Pacific Coast (NLR LLC –
PNWG/CENIC)• Rhode Island (OSHEAN)• South Eastern U.S. (SRONs)• Tennessee* (OneTenn/ORNL)• Texas (LEARN)• Virginia (MATP)• Wisconsin (WiscNet/WiscWaves)• WyomingCanada- CANARIE (for partnership with
Michigan/New York and others)
(RONs in red have made dark fiber acquisitions through FiberCo)
(*RON/universities with RFx’s issued or in process of acquiring fiber)
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Dark fiber service offerings – cont.
• In 2006, 2 yr continuation of original Level 3 agreement• Same 20 yr IRU contract as before• Same O&M contract – 5 yr renewable terms
• Dark fiber footprint • Long-haul fiber – 33,000 route miles
• 150 markets
• Metro fiber – 22,000 route miles• 110 markets• Over 5,000 on-net buildings
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Dark Fiber pricing
• Long-haul fiber:• $850/strand mile for 20 yr IRU• $200/route mile annual O&M
• Metro fiber:• Tiered structure based on market (inquire for
details on specific market)• Colo:• $800/rack MRC (30 amps included), $3500 NRC
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Consulting and Professional Services
• Understand the challenges in cost effectively and efficiently lighting and managing optical networks• Experience in working with the community
for dark fiber needs (national and regional).• Partnered with industry to provide services that
were previously available only to service providers
• Goal: to assist members in delivering carrier-class network services
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Professional Services
• FiberCo draws upon Professional Services using highly-experienced team of networking professionals at• Level 3• Ciena• Fujitsu
• Full range of services/turn-key solutions (design, implementation, operations) at aggressive FiberCo rates
• Via our relationships, FiberCo can provide pre-negotiated, discounted offerings so that your resources can be better capitalized
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Professional Services
• Consulting:• RFx creation and review, site analysis, fiber discovery and
sourcing, project management, recommendations and tailored studies
• help determine dark fiber networking infrastructure requirements (Long-haul, metro, interconnects)
• Where fiber not available/feasible, other alternatives
• Pre Installation Support • Optical engineers and network designers will perform network
architecture and route design, transmission engineering and optronics requirements determination, conduct fiber characterizations.
• Including recommendations for implementation
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• Installation and Implementation Services:• Conduct detailed site engineering and installation prep,
perform test and turn-up service.
• 24 x 7 x 365 Operations Support (Shared NOC):• Including network monitoring and maintenance management;
fault isolation and troubleshooting, field services dispatching; provisioning and lifecycle engineering; service initiation, sparing requirements, equipment maintenance.
• Equipment sales• Ciena 2000, 2600, 4200, CoreStream, CoreDirector
Professional Services – cont.
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Internet2 WaveCo
• WaveCo provides Internet2 members cost-effective access to long-term dedicated wavelengths on an extensive nationwide and metropolitan footprint covering more than 33,000 miles of optical fiber.
• National-scale aggregated rates• Cost effective for regional networks that want to extend their
reach with varying demands for circuit capacity or duration. • available to RONs to reach members where dark fiber isn’t
cost-effective• Pricing:
• Priced at Level 3’s best wholesale rate
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