1. Regional networking update Jeff Custard CHECO CIO meeting Denver, Colorado 03-Feb-2009

2. SUMMIT: The Mountain West Advanced Networking Cooperative Goal – Establish a lightweight, nimble collaborative overlay above the Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) and the Utah Education Network (UEN) for managing regional connectivity (including peering) and potentially other related regional IT projects

3. SUMMIT: The Mountain West Advanced Networking Cooperative Motivations – Changes in national network topology and connections – Differences in state-based network governance within the region

4. Summit collaboration Membership – Initial members Front Range GigaPop (FRGP) Utah Education Network (UEN) – Open to other aggregating members over time Governance – Summit Policy Oversight Committee (SPOC) – Summit Technical Operations Committee (STOC)

5. Policy Oversight Committee – Scope Strategic direction, membership matters, governance, and major capital investment & vendor agreements – Membership Six members – Four members drawn from CIOs in-region and/or VPITs – The two co-chairs of STOC will be voting members Balanced between Colorado/Wyoming and Utah/Idaho Pat Burns (CSU) and Steve Hess (Utah) to co-chair?

6. Technical Operations Committee Scope – Producing technical designs, evaluating vendor options, and overseeing Summit engineering and operations – Advisory to SPOC, but SPOC can delegate to STOC Membership – Up to eight members – Balanced: Colorado/Wyoming and Utah/Idaho – Marla Meehl and Steve Corbató will co-chair

7. Network topology evolution

8. Internet2 Router NLR Inc 15454 NLR LLC Cisco 4503 2x10Gbps ports 4x1 Gbps ports 10Gbps to Denver 10Gbps 1Gbps 1Gbps – being installed NLR LLC Cisco 4503 10Gbps UEN Level3 PoP - SLC Current Topology January 2009

9. I2 Router KC I2 WDM SLC I2 WDM Denver I2 WDM KC I2 Router SLC UEN Switch SLC UEN Router SLC FRGP Switch Denver FRGP Router Denver 10Gbps Future topology (late spring 2009) 1)10Gbps primary IP connection to Internet2 Network (IP) in SLC 2)10Gbps backup IP connection from Denver to Kansas City 3)10Gbps dedicated wavelength between Denver and SLC for Summit use 4)Internet2 DCN connection (2.5Gbps) for Northrop Grumman in Denver (not shown)

10. Summit cost recovery model Propose cost distribution between CO/WY and UT/ID along current split (68%/32%) Assume I2-provided 10Gbps wavelength between Denver & SLC and transition to I2 Commodity Peering Service (CPS) I2 and NLR changes result in significant cost savings – Current spend for I2+NLR: $1.13M – Annual spend starting 01-Jul-2009: $763k (33% reduction)

11. “Western Lights” Placeholder name for lack of another term for now A parallel discussion going on regarding possibility of a larger Western affinity group

12. Western Lights An opportunity to improve network service for the West: particularly for FRGP, New Mexico, and Arizona would use NLR capacity to provide greater (and diverse) bandwidth connectivity to Internet2 Proposed redesign would give: NM opportunity to participate in TransitRail commodity service (lowering its cost of commodity services Idaho: Internet2 at 10Gbps and NLR connectivity

13. WL Advantages Intra-region peering NLR and Internet2 services Back each other up (provide diverse layer 2 and 3 if on- network has a failure) Cheap layer 1 and 2 waves from NLR Access regionally to 40Gbps of NLR PacketNet Access regionally to 30Gbps of Internet2 and CPS (Commercial Peering Service) Revenue neutral to Internet2 per 2009-01-01 current revenue Costs same as Internet2 at 10Gbps with backup for FRGP

15. Questions and discussion