nesc arra funded fiber
DESCRIPTION
A presentation to the Minnesota Broadband Task Force meeting Oct 2013 in Windom MNTRANSCRIPT
Northeast Service Cooperative
Northeast Minnesota Middle Mile Fiber Project
Middle Mile The Northeast Service Cooperative
designed a broadband infrastructure project, called the Northeast Middle Mile Fiber Project, to make dark fiber, wavelength services available to the public sector and to private sector technology service providers in unserved and underserved rural areas of Northeast Minnesota.
Project Facts
Developed and deployed by the Northeast Service Cooperative
$43 federal investment in Northeast Minnesota(50/50 Grant/Loan)
915 miles of fiber optic cable 14 Optical Transport Network Facilities
throughout the region. Anchors connected with a minimum
Gigabit (1000Mbps) Connectivity andup to 10Gbps
2.8 Terabit current core switching capacityusing DWDM technology.
Project Map
Fiber Optic Backbone The Northeast Minnesota Middle Mile Fiber Project expands into eight counties in northeastern Minnesota including: St. Louis, Lake, Cook, Pine, Itasca, Aitkin, Koochiching
and Carlton. The network is designed to provide
redundancy and extend connectivity to underserved and unserved areas.
Project Facts Connects about 250 critical service sites
across the region including: 3 sovereign nations 18 college and university sites 8 counties 18 independent school districts 25 health care facilities 26 community libraries More than 150 state, county and city sites
including Duluth and St. Louis County
Regional Fiber Project NSAs – Share of Total Project
Project Facts Construction will span at least 3 seasons
involving 9 regional subcontractors and providing hundreds of seasonal construction jobs at prevailing wages
Scheduled for substantial completion (90%) by November 15, 2013
Full Completion by end of 2014
Last-Mile Connectivity Long term (20+ year) carrier level public/private
partnerships Agreements are in the form of; joint construction,
capacity exchange and Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU). Allow for extension of cost effective fiber based service
to both commercial private business and potential future residential customers.
Private partners include; Frontier Communications , ACS and Compudyne with others pending.
Public partners include ; AEC-Cook County (USDA) and Merit Networks (NTIA)
Planning Goals for NESC Primary:
Complete construction/connections for the broadband project. Final completion of the USDA project in 2014.
Address immediate requests by current members for network expansion
Network service and support Continue to Expand both
Public/Private Partnerships Full operations of regional
NAP Exchange with connectionsto MPLS, Chicago and Canada.
Planning Goals for NESC
Secondary: LAN consulting, design and engineering including
cabling integration and deployment and mobile/wireless solution design and deployment
Equipment inventory for purchase, lease, service and support beyond the core
Identify shared resources, best practices and economies of scale in technology among all members of the regional network
Identify and serve new members in the regional network.
Planning Goals for NESC Tertiary:
Virtualization deployment and management
Data, server and application hosting, storage, transport, licensing and security
Integrated communications at the site, in the community and across the region (distance
Project Questions?
Contact: Paul Brinkman, Chief Executive Officer
218-748-7603, [email protected]
Lyle MacVey, Chief Technology Officer 218-748-7623, [email protected]
Melissa Cox, Communications Coordinator 218-748-7603, [email protected]