Transcript Case Study of A High Speed Network

Presented by
Gary Desler, VP SAIC
5 December 2009
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About Me
About SAIC
About the Project
Was State
Project Goals
Design Trade-Offs
The Design
Results
Q/A
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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
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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
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Las Vegas Metro ~ 300 Locations several
hundred square miles
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Request for Proposals issued early 1999
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Ten Proposals Received
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Initial Award to write project plan and
complete detailed design
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Second Award to Implement the Network
Fractional
T1 for data
One or more T1’s for
Internet
High School, T1s for
Voice
Voice
Elementary, 4 POTs lines
Videos
Delivered
by car
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Voice
◦ Phone in every classroom
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Internet
◦ Increased Bandwidth to each school
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Administrative Data Network
◦ Increased Bandwidth to each school
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Video
◦ Delivery on Demand
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abilties
◦ Availability, reliability, affordability, usability
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Status Quo
◦ Increase bandwidth of existing system
Telephone Architecture
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SONET Rings, ATM Switches
Private Microwave
Ethernet Architecture
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Dark Fiber, gigabit and 10gigabit Switches
The Design / Is State
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Gigabit fiber rings enables:
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Voice over IP & on-net dialing
Data / Internet
Server Consolidation
Video Distribution
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Phone in every classroom
VOIP Trunk Lines
On-Net Dialing
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All data traffic uses IP
Each network node at least gigbit backbone
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No reason to have a server in the schools
◦ Most servers in unconditioned closets
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Brought all servers back into conditioned
server farms
◦ No truck rolls, backups nightly, skilled IT support
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Thousands of hours of instructional “tapes”
on-line
Streaming video from several internal sources
Available bandwidth for nearly 1000 fold
expansion
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CCSD has the most advanced communication
network possibly in the world
Faster, better and cheaper due to the vision
of SAIC and the use of long term
commitments for dark fiber