2014 5 th Annual Broadband Summit

Central Management Services December 2014

Regional Support Team

Illinois Century Network

Holli Crawford – Glen Green Phil Daniels – Curtis Smith Chris Watkins – Dave Mollet ICN RTC-VIII Highland Effingham Carbondale

Network Update

• Network Benefits Include • • Greater Capacity • 10Gb backbone w/ growth • Failover Flexibility and Scalability • Ability to grow • Additional services parallel to ICN backbone

Network Update

• Benefits continued… • • Cost savings Fast bandwidth upgrades • Ability to control bandwidth increases • Fostering Growth in last mile • Providing the middle mile • Easier for private sector

• Core router upgrades • Chicago ASR • • • Springfield ASR Collinsville ASR Path for future upgrades

Network Update

• Backbone • Egress • Routing flexibility • Redundancy • Interconnectivity with other networks

Network Map

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What ICN Network Offers

• Internet Bandwidth • Point to Point and Point to Multipoint • Wave and Dark Fiber • Speed ranging from 10Mbps to 10Gbps

Service impact

• • • • • • Open access network available to all entities Wholesale providers and service providers Increasing options for access Scalable network infrastructure Improved redundancy for reliability Incentive pricing for bandwidth growth Support Cloud computing structure 8

Initiatives

• Migrating clients to broadband statewide • Direct peering with Google & Equinix • Library Services • Expand Ilini-Cloud & other cloud options • Disaster Recovery • New RFP with vendors state-wide • Marketing to wholesale providers 9

What Makes the ICN Different

What Makes Us Different?

• Fully redundant network • Multiple Egress providers • Internet2 • Quality of Service and Multicast • Illinois Intranet 10

What Makes the ICN Different

What Makes Us Different?

• Google and Akamai caching • Discounts on hardware and circuits • Loaner routers • Additional bandwidth for special events • Local support staff 11

Thank You!

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