Mountain Connect 2015 Rural Broadband Challenges Jim English – Colorado Mountain College Kate Robinson – Western State Colorado University Matthew McGlamery – Fort Lewis College

CMC Statistics Founded Counties 11 locations 20,000 unduplicated students 4500 FTE 85% of the students are from Colorado 18% minority population 12 to 1 – College-wide student / faculty ratio Average part-time student = 38 years of age Average full-time student = 24 years of age

Aspen Buena Vista Breckenridge Carbondale Dillon Edwards Glenwood Leadville * Rifle Spring Valley * Steamboat Springs * * Residential Campus

Residential Hall Capacity Leadville – 95 Spring Valley – 216 Steamboat – 224

Broadband Connectivity 100 Meg MOE connection – FRGP 300 Meg connection CenturyLink

100 Meg FRGP 1 month % utilization

100 Meg FRGP 1 week % utilization

300 Meg CenturyLink 1 month % utilization

300 Meg CenturyLink 1 week % utilization

Bandwidth / Broadband Future Growth Two issues: Redundant affordable bandwidth to all locations Additional affordable Broadband capacity

Mountain Connect 2015

Western State Colorado University Located in Gunnison on the western slope of Colorado 7700 feet elevation ~ 2400 students ~ 430 Staff/Faculty 473 rooms/apartments on campus 300 APs 470 Mbps bandwidth Average 1800 devices on wireless

Current Internet Connectivity We have one 500 Mbps MoE circuit from CenturyLink Western provides bandwidth to the City and County of Gunnison

Bandwidth Growth

Increased # of devices

Challenges CenturyLink owns the only fiber into Gunnison coming from Montrose If we purchased bandwidth from someone other than CenturyLink, it would still be running over the same fiber No redundancy Low residency graduate programs Cloud applications Meeting expectations of students coming from urban areas

Proposed Solutions RFP for bandwidth 1 year in advance of contract expiration to see if someone will build into Gunnison FRGP as an option to reduce amount of bandwidth needed

MOUNTAIN CONNECT 2015 BROADBAND CHALLENGES FOR RURAL COLLEGES & UNIVERISITES Fort Lewis College – Durango Colorado

Fort Lewis College  Public Liberal Arts  3751 Undergraduate  25 Graduate  181 Faculty  309 Staff  1700 Beds  900 Mbs Internet  321 Access Points  G through AC  Expanding

Internet Connectivity  300 Mbs – Front Range Giga Pop, Denver Colorado  MoE circuit from Centurylink  Commodity Internet  Internet 2  300 Mbs – Brainstorm Internet – Durango  1Gb Private Fiber  300 Mbs – Cogent Communications – Albuequrque  1Gb Transport via FastTrack Communications

Internet Bandwidth Growth 1 day average

Device Growth 1 st week of Fall 2014 Semester

Challenges  Residential Bandwidth Growth  Home Experience Expectations  Cloud Applications  Application growth is all in the cloud  Internet of Things  Network Reliability / Availability  Critical to: Instruction Commerce Entertainment

Mountain Connect 2015 Rural Broadband Challenges Jim English – Colorado Mountain College Kate Robinson – Western State Colorado University Matthew McGlamery – Fort Lewis College