ILLINOIS CENTURY NETWORK

1. ILLINOIS CENTURY NETWORK Regional Meeting October 2009

2. Regional Update Review of ICN Uses and ICN Customer Needs Accomplishments State-Owned Fiber Update Interactive Discussion with Participants http://www.illinois.net ICN Regional Meeting Agenda

3. Regional Update

4. Regional Update Last Mile New providers and connectivity options Migrating to Ethernet Let us help Contracts and back up lines Bandwidth and baselines Quality of Service Critical applications Bandwidth management

5. Regional Update Staffing CMC Phone Options 800.366.8768 Option 2 Co-location New facility at Schaumburg Augmenting your ICN Connection CT3 consolidation

6. Last Mile Solutions

7. Circuit Map with Broadband Providers at ICN POP Sites 7

8. Bandwidth is needed every day to perform the most basic functions within constituent organizations. Some specific uses include: How is the ICN used?

9. How is the ICN used?

10. How is the ICN used?

11. Customer needs are increasing at a rate of 8% per month. Last mile connections moving from T1s to Ethernet or fiber based connections. Moving from direct connections to constituent WANS or Regional Networks. Network Connectivity is not a luxury but a critical requirement. Trends

12. ICN Meeting Customer Needs

13. ICN Meeting Customer Needs Customers need: To be sure that important traffic is prioritized over other traffic Video and Voice traffic guarantees (QoS) Address space that can be advertized to other providers Failover on or off ICN Disaster recovery/Services Collocation

14. ICN Value Added Propositions Customers need: Master contracts to purchase from Multiple internet providers Full backbone redundancy No term commitment Temporary bandwidth changes

15. ICN Meeting Customer Needs Customers need: 24 x 7 service Local support Spare customer equipment Up to date utilization statistics Technical support Site head ends monitored and managed

16. Accomplishments Community based BGP system for greater customer autonomy Quality of Service backbone overhaul Upgrades of all OC3 circuits to OC12 10 Gig in production on the backbone Many, many more operational based accomplishments. (DDoS mitigations, problem resolution, customer WAN designs, etc.)

17. Statewide Fiber Optic Network ICN BIG“Bringing Illinois Gigaspeeds”

18. Background • ICN serves nearly 8,000 constituents reaching all 102 counties in Illinois • K-12 schools • Libraries • Museums • Colleges and Universities • Community Colleges • Local and State Government • Health Care • Non-profit Entities • Current network topology is based on leased- lines from telecommunications carriers (AT&T, Sprint, McLeod) • Bandwidth utilization is increasing at a rate of 8% per month • Current model no longer economical 18

19. Vision • Replace current backbone with 1,700 miles of state-owned fiber • 144 strands of fiber along State highways and Interstates • Connect to ICN POP sites, Starlight (I2 and National Lambda Rail), and Equinix (private peering) • Collaborate and connect with municipal and regional fiber networks as well as last mile service providers • Benefits • Provides 166x more bandwidth at the same or lower operating cost, scalable to 667x the current bandwidth with no ‘fork-lift’ upgrade. • Enables ICN to expand services to for-profit health care • Establishes a statewide fiber infrastructure for use by otherservice providers • Extends fiber into unserved and underserved communities This is an unprecedented opportunity for ICN to restructure cost recovery from the ground up,- moving to a membership based system. 19

20. Fiber Network • 1700 miles of fiber • 14 POP Sites • 57 Access Sites 20

21. Network Architecture • Physical Layer • 144 strands of fiber • Physical route diversity • Optical Infrastructure • Dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) and wire speedEthernet over DWDM • DWDM allows many data signals to be sent simultaneouslyover a single fiber • Signals can be separated and provided to multiple entities or technology platforms (like VLANs) • The Fujitsu 7500 system can hand off Lambdas (Like 10G or 40G) as well as wire speed Ethernet (10G and 1G) speeds 21

22. Network Architecture cont. • Routing and Switching • IP over multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) • MPLS IP service allows for many more users to utilize available bandwidth by responsibly managing oversubscription via queuing and other methods over the network • Utilizes existing Cisco routing and switching equipment • Provides access to sub rate Ethernet speeds (10MB to 5G speeds) in a method that allows for point-to-point Ethernet circuits, as well as VRF ‘VPN cloud’ network connections • Customers can maintain private or public addresses without IP overlap of private address space 22

23. Proposed Services FIBER Per mile Per fiber strand Ethernet Services 10Mb-10Gb Per mile for wirespeed Per Mb for sub-rates Lambda Services Per mile per Lambda Internet Egress Per Mb 23

24. Project Funding • Estimated Cost is $130M over three years • $26M Illinois Jobs Now! Capital Funding • $104M ARRA Request • **Capital Funding has been approved** • ARRA Funding Request • Round 1 Application Submitted to NTIA and RUS August 20, 2009 • Round 1 Award Announcements November thru December 2009 • Round 2 Funding Request Opportunity – Winter 2009 • Round 3 Funding Request Opportunity – Spring 2010 24

25. Project Timeline 25

26. ILLINOIS CENTURY NETWORK Interactive Discussion http://www.illinois.net