1. Campus Infrastructure
What is available and what are the plans.

2. Overview State of the current Network on campus
Current off campus connectivity
Planned off campus connectivity
Regional Initiatives
National Initiatives

3. Current Campus Network
Fully redundant Gigabit Ethernet backbone.
Able to extend the Gigabit backbone to any building on campus as needed.
Able to provide Gigabit to the desktop in most buildings.

4. Research network connections
Our Current connection is an OC-3.
We are in the process of upgrading the Internet 2 connection to an OC-12.
This has been delayed by an issue obtaining access to the Internet 2 site in Kansas City.
I believe this will be resolved in the next week or so.

5. Regional Initiatives
MIDnet Inc. has issued an RFP for obtaining dark fiber in the Great Plains region.
There were 5 responders.
The evaluation of those responses is taking place right now.
If a bid is accepted and UNL participates we will have access to dark fiber by the end of 2006.

6. Regional Initiative Costs
We anticipate the first year costs to range from $600,000 t0 $750,000.
Second year costs are estimated at $500,000.
On-going costs will be much less.

7. National Initiatives Abilene and NLR are merging their efforts. Hopi
Not yet clear exactly what this means to the connectors to Abilene or NLR
Hopi
Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure
Dynamic Optical Networking

8. Futures
With access to Dark Fiber we will be able to create, at little incremental cost, new connections for research projects as needed.
The time frame for these will be days and weeks, not months.
10 Gigabit Ethernet on the Campus is possible with our infrastructure.