Utah Education Network Current Status February 2005

What is UEN Consortium of Education and Government entities ◊Higher Education (10 State run institution with hundreds of locations in Utah ◊Public Educations (40 Districts supporting 400,000+ Students and over 800 schools) ◊Public Libraries ◊State Government

UEN Services  Network development and support  Content development  ASP and Web Services ◊Pioneer Library ◊WebCT ◊Filtering ◊DNS ◊Other Services

UEN Networks  KUEN  Data WAN and Internet  EdNet Distance Education  Utah Education Network Satellite System

KUEN  Sister Station to KUED Channel 7  Supports Higher Education delivered classes  Digital conversion completed in 2002  Translators deliver signal throughout the state of Utah  UEN exploring the use of the expanded digital signal to deliver some data traffic

Data WAN and Internet Network  Currently in the middle of a statewide upgrade to Ethernet Circuits  Current Internet Capacity is 900 Mbps  Upgrading I2 connection from OC-3 to OC- 12  Participant in National Lambda Rail as a Front Range GigaPop (FRGP) member  Participant with CENIC, FRGP, the State of Nevada and Northwest GigaPoP in the Western Lights consortium

EdNet Distance Education Network  Operational for the past 25 years  Developed to enable many-to-many connectivity  Delivers thousands of educational sessions each year to tens of thousands of students  Currently going through a massive upgrade from analog to digital endpoints and backbone

UENSS Network  Collaborative effort between Utah State University and UEN  200+ classrooms in Utah equipped to receive satellite delivered courses  IP Telephony used for the past 6 years to deliver return audio for one-way video satellite transmission

UEN Ethernet Upgrade  First Backbone Ethernet links turned up in Q  First “Last Mile” access circuits turned up on Q  Conversion of Backbone to Optical Lambda services in November 2003  Ethernet Lambda installation in backbone - August 2004

Ethernet Upgrade Current Status  Projects completed with 6 vendors and 4 community networks  75% of all District Offices connected  80% of Higher Education main campus locations connected  45% of all school locations connected  RFP evaluation completed in January 2005 to connect the remaining schools over the next 2-3 years

Other Factors  E-Rate  Legislative Funding  Microwave Projects in remote areas  Resource limitations  Network Security initiative