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

3. CMC Statistics Founded 1967 9 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

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

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

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

9. 100 Meg FRGP 1 month % utilization

10. 100 Meg FRGP 1 week % utilization

11. 300 Meg CenturyLink 1 month % utilization

12. 300 Meg CenturyLink 1 week % utilization

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

14. Mountain Connect 2015

15. 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

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

17. Bandwidth Growth

18. Increased # of devices

19. 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

20. 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

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

23. 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

24. 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

25. Internet Bandwidth Growth 1 day average

26. Device Growth 1 st week of Fall 2014 Semester

27. 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

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