The University of Texas at San Antonio The Office of Information Technology Network Upgrade Overview

Why is the upgrade needed? Obsolescence  EOS/EOL - The current core switches in use on the UTSA campus are scheduled to become End of Sale (EOS)/End of Life (EOL) in After this date, there will be no support or service available for these switches. Speed  Gigabit to the desktop - The current network does not allow for the delivery of Gigabit Ethernet speeds to the desktop. The current network backbone is limited to 1 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) and cannot support connections faster than 100 Megabits per second (Mb/s) to users. Gigabit speeds are increasingly becoming necessary for the support of UTSA research initiatives. Reliability  Redundancy - While the main switches in each campus building utilize redundant hardware and power to provide increased reliability, there is a lack of redundancy in the connections between the switches in each building.  Power - The battery backup systems in place in several network closets are old and experiencing battery failures. This problem, coupled with unpredictable power issues throughout campus can result in occasional connectivity issues.

Vendor Evaluations Criteria A listing of the technical requirements was sent to each of the vendors and each was asked to propose a solution which met the technical requirements. A series of meetings was held with each vendor to ensure each vendor properly understood the requirements and to clarify any design questions or issues. A scoring matrix was developed to analyze each vendor’s proposed solution. The scoring was performed by three technical staff and one manager. The following criteria were used in the analysis:  Features and Performance  Support and maintenance coverage  Management capabilities  Pricing  Vendor ability/capability to deliver proposed solution

Vendor Pros and Cons Cisco –Pros Incumbent vendor, market leader –Cons Technology offering did not offer capabilities equivalent to that of competing vendors, history of support issues, aging technology. Proposed solution was weak and utilized inferior product offerings. –Total Project Cost $5.1 Million Foundry –Pros Progressive and current technology, successful implementations of proposed solution in other university environments, cost, discounted pricing in proposed solution viable beyond three years –Cons Smaller market share –Total Project Cost $4.34 Million Juniper –Pros Progressive and current technology, innovative feature set –Cons Limited deployment of proposed solution in higher education environments, proposed hardware was not a good fit for enterprise usage, discounted pricing offered in proposed solution was not viable beyond three years –Total Project Cost $5.05 Million

Proposed Vendor Foundry Networks provides Increased Reliability  Flexibility – proposed solution will provide greater flexibility to meet the demands of a growing and research intensive university.  Redundancy - The proposed network upgrade will provide multiple connection points to each campus building main switch to facilitate greater reliability. Increased Speed  Capability to provide Gigabit speeds to the desktop - While the default connectivity provided to end users will remain at 100 Mb/s, the upgrade will provide a 10 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) backbone connection to each building. This increased backbone bandwidth will provide the capability to support up to 1 Gb/s to the desktop where required for research or other needs.  Reference checks  University of California Davis  University of Utah Medical Center  Microsoft (Customer Research Labs)

Year 1 Spending Plan Phase I Purchase date February 09 Campus firewall -$175,000 JPL aggregation core switch 1 -$103,925 JPL network core switch -$298,177 Infrastructure and connectivity -$25,000 Year 1 contingency -$50,000 Phase II Purchase date March 09 JPL aggregation core switch 2 -$94,196 JPL aggregation core switch 3 -$103,925 JPL server core switch 1 -$148,304 JPL server core switch 1 -$148,046 Infrastructure and connectivity -$45,000 Phase III Purchase date July 09 SB network core switch -$258,912 Infrastructure and connectivity -$30,000

Year 1 Work Plan Phase I - Design and coordination February – May 09Campus network design March – April 09Departmental communications and coordination April – June 09 Network design testing Phase II - Deployment *June 09 Campus firewall and (3) JPL aggregation switches deployment *July - August 09 JPL server switches deployment Phase III - Deployment September - October 09 JPL Core switch deployment October - November 09 SB Core switch deployment December 09 Year 1 completed *Dates may vary dependent upon maintenance window approval