Presented by Gary Desler, VP SAIC 5 December 2009

         About Me About SAIC About the Project Was State Project Goals Design Trade-Offs The Design Results Q/A

    Nearly 50 years of electronic and computer experience Founder of Network Solutions Responsible for the winning and executing the project we will discuss Currently Project Manager for next generation (Block IIF) of GPS satellites

 SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. For more information, visit www.saic.com. SAIC: From Science to Solutions®

     Clark County, Nevada School District Las Vegas Metro ~ 300 Locations several hundred square miles Request for Proposals issued early 1999 Ten Proposals Received Initial Award to write project plan and complete detailed design Second Award to Implement the Network

High School, T1s for Voice Voice Elementary, 4 POTs lines Fractional T1 for data One or more T1’s for Internet Videos Delivered by car

     ◦ Voice Phone in every classroom ◦ Internet Increased Bandwidth to each school ◦ Administrative Data Network Increased Bandwidth to each school ◦ Video Delivery on Demand ◦ abilties Availability, reliability, affordability, usability

    ◦ ◦ ◦ Status Quo Increase bandwidth of existing system Telephone Architecture SONET Rings, ATM Switches Private Microwave Ethernet Architecture Dark Fiber, gigabit and 10gigabit Switches

The Design / Is State

 ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ Gigabit fiber rings enables: Voice over IP & on-net dialing Data / Internet Server Consolidation Video Distribution

   Phone in every classroom VOIP Trunk Lines On-Net Dialing

  All data traffic uses IP Each network node at least gigbit backbone

  ◦ No reason to have a server in the schools Most servers in unconditioned closets ◦ Brought all servers back into conditioned server farms No truck rolls, backups nightly, skilled IT support

   Thousands of hours of instructional “tapes” on-line Streaming video from several internal sources Available bandwidth for nearly 1000 fold expansion

  CCSD has the most advanced communication network possibly in the world Faster, better and of SAIC cheaper and the use of long term commitments for dark fiber due to the vision