Wire New Mexico Rio Grande Backbone Project Certification Committee September 23, 2009 Deputy Director Maynard M. Salazar Department Of Information Technology

2 Wire NM-Rio Grande Backbone Goals and Objectives  Provide High Availability and Redundancy of Network Infrastructure  Deploy high speed backbone for collaboration between Universities and State Agencies  Provide cost effective broadband services in the Gigabit range

Wire NM-Rio Grande Backbone Applications and Uses  Disaster Recovery for Network Services  Convergence of Voice, Video and Data services that include VOIP and Tele-Conferencing  Distance Learning  Tele-Medicine  Provide alternate transport for 2-way radio communications  High speed connectivity to NLR at access points in Albuquerque, NM and El Paso TX  High speed connectivity to Encanto (Super Computer) from NMSU, NM Tech

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Wire NM-Rio Grande Backbone Financial Expenditures  $2 million Laws 2004, Chapter 114, Section 8, Sub-section 11 $1,845,751 was expended $154,249 reverted  $72k was expended from DoIT Operational Budget

Wire NM-Rio Grande Backbone Lessons Learned  Not enough involvement with technical groups at the beginning of the project.  Better planning to avoid having to expend funds from Operational Budget instead of from Appropriation.

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