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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 OC12
 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 Q1 2002
 First “Last Mile” access circuits turned
up on Q3 2002
 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