FRGP and UPoP CHECO update 08-Apr-2008 Jeff Custard

Topics FRGP status / membership UPoP status / membership Upcoming changes Related issues / Questions

Current FRGP members CSM CSU DU FLC Ithaka NCAR NOAA State UCB UCCS UCD UNAVCO UNC USAP UU UW

Comcast

ESnet

Akamai

Commodity—Level3

Commodity—Qwest

Level3 and Qwest – 95 th percentile

Current UPoP members AHEC BVSD CARL CBOCES CDHE CCOD CMC Denver Health Deproduction MSCD SMA

FRGP / UPoP changes 1200 Larimer / NC2208 equipment upgrades and consolidation power changes? new rack installation SuperDREAM / VRF updates 1200 Larimer 1850 Pearl St.

The Quilt, Inc. FRGP maintains membership Commodity Internet Service (CIS) 2008 RFP update almost complete (MSAs by early May 2008) vendor liaison functions (Qwest) RFI for VoIP and lambda services further review needed Authorized Quilt Vendors (AQV) for Authorized Quilt Buyers (AQB) see next slide; contact me for follow-up tiered pricing based on aggregate bandwidth totals

AQVs Cogent Communications Global Crossing Level 3 Qwest Time Warner Telecom XO Communications

EAGLE-net Educational Access Gateway Learning Environment network (EAGLE-Net) Centennial Board of Cooperative Educational Services (CBOCES) effort for K-12 network aggregation UPoP connection [Internet2 SEGP?] CBOCES has SPIN for E-Rate Lots of grant application work underway Educational K-12 networking business and education application sharing FRGP member and national R&E network access

Higher Ed and EAGLE-net? Common aggregation locations? Shared capacity? Shared costs? Stay tuned….

Integrated network options for Colorado? FRGP (plus secondaries) UPoP (EAGLE-net coming along) Municipalities? Health Care (for-profits?)? Interconnections of separate aggregation points or integrated overall body (as a separate company?)? Colorado Broadband Summit follow-up?

References and upop- for more FRGP or UPoP info or questions acronym decoder

Discussion / Questions Any follow up on items covered? Other items? Thank you!