Transcript washington dc network technology overview

WASHINGTON DC
NETWORK TECHNOLOGY
OVERVIEW
EDUCAUSE POLICY PANEL
APRIL 26, 2006
CHRIS PEABODY
DEPUTY CTO: NETWORK AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES
Government of the District of Columbia
[email protected]
GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
 Unique
Washington DC
 City / County / State Governance (all in one)
 Executive Office of the Mayor
 76 Agencies
 Elected City Council
 Independent Agencies
 Public Schools
 CFO
 Water and Sewer Authority (WASA)
 Major Federal Presence, Oversight and Funding
 Primary business is government
 No Smokestack industry allowed
 DHS is having a major impact on city
 Business is currently very good
2
Washington DC.GOV Network
 Government presence in over 600




locations within the city.
40,000 DC.GOV Phone Lines
60,000 DC.GOV Data Ports
Traditionally outsourced services to
carriers
In process of migrating onto private
network
3
Ultimate In-Source Solution
Build it yourself!
GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DC-NET: Goals
 Build and maintain a comprehensive
technology network that meets the needs of
the ENTIRE District Government




All voice services
All data Intranet connectivity
Enhance Public Safety applications
Enhance Public Schools
5
DC-NET Fast Facts
 DC Loves Teddy Roosevelt
 1903 Statute required “the phone company” to
provide conduit space for public safety use. Very
powerful discovery!
 $80 mil multiyear project
 Local Capital dollars
 Some Federal dollars
 Goal is to be self sustaining by FY08
 Approximately 86 employees working on the
project
6
7
DC-NET: Fiber
 SONET Fiber planned to all Gov’t locations
 400 – 600 Gov’t sites across the city
 Currently at 165 buildings
 All citywide voice and data services at sites “which make sense”
will eventually be riding these fully redundant SONET rings
 Some fiber deployed direct in Verizon Conduits
 Other fiber obtained via CATV Franchise Agreements
 Comcast
 RCN (formerly Starpower)
 Some original fiber purchased on IRU’s
8
DC-NET: Replacing the Legacy Services
 Rapidly replacing legacy MAN circuits
from Verizon
 District has hundreds of Point – Point circuits
 Major Frame Relay networks installed today
 DC Gov still pay’s about $5mil/year for MAN
circuits to Verizon
9
DC-NET: Voice Platform
 Avaya s8700 is core voice platform.
 40,000+ phones when complete.
 13,000 have been ported
 25,000 ISDN/CENTREX remain
 10 – 15% unused inventory discovered during cutovers
 Migration is very, very, VERY challenging
10
911:Unreliable vs Reliable Trunking
Verizon 9-1-1 System
E 9-1-1
Verizon
Tandem
DC 9-1-1
Center
Single Point of
Failure - Unreliable
DC’s 9-1-1 System
E 9-1-1
Selective
Router 1
DC 9-1-1
Center - PSCC
DC-NET
Fiber
Selective
Router 1
DC 9-1-1
Center - UCC
11
DC-NET: Citywide Motorola Radio System
 42 Towers across the District
 Supports entire First Responder




Community
T1 Based Connectivity
Cutover in a single weekend from Verizon
Never Failed
Adding 28 new circuits due to UCC
building
12
DC-NET: WARN
 The Wireless Accelerated Responder Network (WARN)
is the nation’s first city-wide broadband wireless public
safety network. This pilot network was unveiled in
September 04 and was first operationally used in
January, 2005 for the Inauguration followed by the State
of the Union.
13
DC-NET: WARN Network Attributes
 Covers 95% of the District - 700 Mhz experimental
spectrum provided by the FCC
 Uplink rate -- 900 kbps (peak)/300 kbps (average)
 Downlink rate -- 3 Mbps (peak)/900 kbps (average)
 Uses Flash/OFRM
 Full mobility (communications sustained while device mobile
throughout the city)
 Dedicated Public Safety network – no contention with
cellular or commercial users.
 All IP network; features include full quality of service
(QOS) capabilities, and static IP addresses
14
Public Schools Broadband Network
 157 Public Schools
 Currently networked at sub T1
connectivity, except at High School (T3)
 Currently working on public – private
partnership with DC Based Broadband
provider to network all 157 based on
DCNET backbone.
15
Digital Divide WiFi Project
 Mayor gets calls and Emails every day
 “Why does DC not have a network like “Phili”?
 Currently exploring “win – win” options
 Looking for partners
 DC-NET will provide citywide backbone for
network service partner. City will provide
rooftop space for antennae's.
 Partner must provide services to the cities
poorest first, including PC’s and Training
16
Thanks - Questions
17