Colorados MultiUse Network

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Colorados Multi-Use Network
Division of Information Technologies
October 2003
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Background

• Strategic Plan for a Statewide Telecommunications
  Infrastructure (Feb. 1998)
• State to serve as anchor tenant
• In public-private partnership
• All agencies participate
• 13.5 million in capital funds 7 million
  spending authority
• Community Incentive Fund
• MNT Program
• Authorized by SB 96-102
• DPA contracted with Qwest June 2000
• Community Incentive Fund
• Authorized by HB 99-1102 as Beanpole Program

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Serve as Anchor Tenant
Statute consistent on whom MNT is to serve

• schools, public libraries, institutions of higher
  education, and state agencies (C.R.S.
  23-11.5.104)
• pubic offices of all levels political
  subdivisions of the state within every community
  (C.R.S. 24-30-903(7))
• institutions of higher education, school
  districts, public libraries, public hospitals,
  courts, and government offices (MNT Executive
  Order)

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MNT Deployment
60 million in infrastructure

• 65 points of service (termed ANAPs)
• 5 Super-ANAPs to route traffic
• 39 Edge sites at larger state locations
• 39 sites for aggregating county traffic

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7,800 Miles of Fiber Loop
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Illustration of Aggregation
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Achievements

• Statewide fiber backbone deployed
• Access to every county
• Backhaul reduced or eliminated
• Equity in pricing
• Internet access included

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Achievements (cont)

• Seamless statewide enterprise network
• Fault-tolerate and robust
• Last mile improved in 15 counties
• State agency circuits migrated
• Program management in place

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MNT Performance Measures

• Direct Measures (Infrastructure)
• Reduce cost of government telecom
• Serve as public sector anchor tenant
• Enhance private sector access
• Indirect Measures (Impact)
• Promote economic development
• Enhance educational opportunity

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GOAL Reduce Cost of Government
Measures

• Reduction in T-1 costs achieved as a result of
  circuit conversions from legacy network to MNT
• Reduced costs due to aggregation at County Points
  of Presence

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GOAL Serve as Anchor Tenant
Measures
Measure

• Overall statistics
• Total number of connections
• Total and average bandwidth subscribed
• Total connection to Internet
• by type of entity served
• Number of entities
• Percentage of total

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GOAL Enhance Private Sector Access
Measures

• Number/percent ANAPs with DSL or cable
• Number ANAPs with last-mile fiber
• Number non-ANAP municipalities linked to network
  by fiber

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GOAL Economic Development
Measure

• Growth in indicator industries
• Number of employees, firms, average wage
• Percentage overall employment
• High Tech chosen as one indicator

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GOAL Eco Devo (cont)
high tech jobs are concentrated in metro
188,937
4,915
Metro Rural
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GOAL Eco Devo (cont)
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GOAL Enhance Education
Measures

• School district bandwidth per student
• Students per computer
• Percent classrooms with Internet access
• Percent computers with Internet access
• Rural college Internet bandwidth

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MNT is working!

• We might as well be sitting in Denver.
• Because of MNT, all of a sudden we have seen an
  explosion of service.
• The MNT is giving the small company a chance.
• This makes it economically feasible for SOHOs.
• You get world-wide marketing for a song!
• Half my (ISP) staff makes over 50,000

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Future Opportunities

• Compete last-mile build-out
• Enterprise-wide IP video and voice
• Expand applications
• Include non-MNT local tel-cos
• Full participation from public sector

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Future Opportunities (cont)

• Explore Next Generation Networks
• Extend Internet2 to schools, colleges
• Obtain redundant Internet access
• Measure impact
• Statewide networking governance

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Conclusion

• Statewide fiber in every county
• Available to private sector
• Statewide public sector enterprise network
• Impact measures in place
• Planning in place to leverage new asset

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Colorados Multi-Use Network
Division of Information Technologies