Arizona Telecommunications! The Center for Computing & Information Technologies Fred Neasham, Technical Support Program Coordinator

The Arizona University System Arizona State University Arizona State University Tempe, AZ Branch Campuses: ASU East, ASU WestASU EastASU West Northern Arizona University Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ Branch Campuses: Statewide Academic ProgramsStatewide Academic Programs The University of Arizona The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ Branch Campuses: Arizona International College, The University of Arizona SouthArizona International CollegeThe University of Arizona South

The State of Arizona! What covers half the northern border? What accounts for 2/3 of the topography? Where do interstate highways: –Originate? (States…) –Converge? (Cities…) Where do most people live? What is the average temperature in SW corner for almost half the year? Who is the ILEC & where are the LATAs?

American Indian Nations - The 3rd largest population (U.S.A.)

Phoenix: One of 7 U.S. “City-States”

The Telephony Situation ILEC is US West LATAs –Independent –Phoenix –Los Angeles –Tucson US West has most rural COs up for sale

Arizona Network History State of Arizona “cost reduction” proposals ’87 Dept. of Public Safety - fails ’89 Dept. of Admin. - fails ’96 DOA recruits Educ. into Project Eagle – fails ’99 DOA’s ATS - ??? –Phoenix To Tucson ATM backbone established –V/V/D traffic, US West cell relay and frame relay to county seats, & dialup all planned Education ’84 NSF “WESTnet” –’87 56Kb to U. of Utah –’89, ’91 T1(s), T3 backbone ’90 Az Educ. Telecom Coop. - failed –NAU as “outreacher”, T3 Phx.-Flag.- Tuc. never used ’93 WESTnet replaced by commercial Internet ’97 “Az. Learning Sys.” - failed –Get 1 classroom video codec –All 10 Comm. College Dist. ’99 DoEd admin. Network - ???

Attitudes & Lessons Health and Human Services – “Our data is too private to go on a shared network.” Public Safety – “Crisis control is mandatory – we are in charge!” Administration – “Telcos should charge one fee for rural and metro! Hmmm, no successful bids…” Transportation – “Require in-kind compensation for rights-of-way for an AZ network? Hmmm…” A Cost Reduction Mission Will Never Establish a New Infrastructure!

What Has Worked? Quietly connecting up CC/K-12 districts, government IT shops, libraries, and community centers via NSF Connections and DoC TIIAP grants or E-Rate services Extension offices and preceptor support in every county (land grant mission!)

The A.S.P.I.N. Network – an NSF Connection Univ. -> CC -> rural K-12 (& government)…

The UofA’s Data Networks Connected to external networks Campuswide “inter- building” network Workgroup or Departmental Computer Connections –Inter-networked to NSI (3Mb), the commercial Internet (45Mb), and the Internet2 (155Mb) –Remote sites & State support –“UAnet backbone network” (1 Gigabit/sec) –Building infrastructure upgrades (redundant to UAnet, switched) –Ethernet “walljacks” or ports (10 or 100Mb)

The UofA’s Data Customers External 3 National networks 1 local peering point Private Lines/Frame –5 Community Or 4 Yr. Colleges –11 K-12 Districts –12 Government sites (3 Municipal, 1 County, 3 State, 5 Federal) –CoAg/CoMed extensions in each county –3 branch campuses Internal >200 buildings connected via 3 hub sites to a GigE backbone 5 DNS (>800 subnets) and 1 DHCP server 35,000 IP devices Departmental –13000 ports shared 10BaseT –13000 ports switched 10/100BaseT

The Arizona Regional TeleMedicine Network

The Arizona Telecommunications System Arizona’s Department of Administration –1999 mandate - provide common Voice/Video/Data transport –Learned from failure of Project Eagle RFP –Build infrastructure where control exists today, lease services elsewhere –Costs: Development & Implementation: $ 6.4M Operations (5yr): $79M Estimated Savings: $98M