OARnet Doug Gale October, 2001 OARnet’s Dark Fiber Initiative

OARnet 1. Bandwidth Utilization Doubles Every Year 2. The cost of Interstate Internet Connectivity is not falling as rapidly as use is increasing 3. The cost of Intrastate long haul lines and local loops isn’t falling as fast as Interstate lines The Problem

OARnet 1. Quantity Buying 2. Distributed Storage 3. Symmetrize Bandwidth 4. Internet2 5. Peering and Private Circuits Strategies to Contain Interstate Internet Costs

OARnet Strategies to Contain Intrastate Costs  More PoPs & Shorter Local Loops  Dark Fiber Infrastructure Linking PoPs 3IRU for 2 strands of fiber covering 1,700 route miles in Ohio 3Borrowed $5 million to cover capital cost 3Recover all costs in 7 years from intrastate line savings on Internet1 traffic  Provide local access options

OARnet Buckeye Fiber Infrastructure

OARnet Vision for an Ohio Higher Education Intranet

OARnet Vision for an Ohio Higher Education Intranet Commodity Internet Internet2 Computer Science Research Network Higher Education Video Network Distributed Super- computer Backplane Ohio Dark Fiber Network Internet Internet2 C C C C C CCN N N N N C C

OARnet A Strategy for Higher Education  Buy time for campuses to manage bandwidth  Focus on higher education’s core mission of research, instruction and outreach Differentiated services via Internet2 Dedicated intra-state dark fiber infrastructure