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Case Study – Building A Regional Optical Network
(RON)The Quilt Fiber Workshop
June 21-23, 2004
Presentation Objective
• To share the issues involved with implementing a RON and the associated container corporation with The Quilt Fiber Workshop participants
• To provide workshop participants with examples of how SLR dealt with and continues to deal with these issues
The Vision
• Southern Light Rail (SLR)– Regional access to Atlanta National LambdaRail
(NLR) node– International Connectivity – O&M of National Science Foundation (NSF)
Atlanta Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) hub– Southern Crossroads (SoX) operations
GT Campus
56 Marietta
345 Courtland
SLR
Southern Light Rail (SLR)Spheres of Influence
Getting Started – Governance Issues
• Board Directors of vs. Board of Trustees
• Advisory Board– Non-voting – Voting– Hybrid – Advisory Board elects Board seats
Getting Started – Business Plan
• Budget– Pro-forma– Detailed
• Leadership– Sponsor (champion)– Directors & officers
• Source of Funds (especially seed funding)
Getting Started - Business Plan
• Bandwidth Pricing Models– Costs
• Marginal vs. Market based
• Equipment replacement - fully loaded
• Cost center – rate study
– Other telecom services
• New service offerings
• Marketing
Getting Started – Business Model
• Affiliate or cooperative corporation vs. independent corporation (i.e. LLC)
• Sources of funds
• Flow of service and charges
• Capture total costs
National LambdaRail (NLR)
Southern Light Rail (SLR) Georgia Tech
Vendors
Fee
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Georgia Tech and SLR
Participants 1 - N
Non - SLR Participant
(government agency)
Non - SLR Participant
(private sector corporation)
6/7/2004
Business Operations Functional Diagram
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PS (mgt., admin. & technical)
Non-PS (equip., fiber, NOC and O&M)
Contract for Svcs. w/ GT
Contract for Svcs. w/ GT
Usage Charge C
Bandwidth Utilization
Bandwidth Utilization
Bandwidth Utilization
Usage Charge B
Participant Fee + Usage Chg A
NOTES:
Usage Charge A = NLR Bandwidth Cost A + SLR Bandwidth Cost A + Distant Regional Optical Network Cost
Usage Charge B = NLR Bandwidth Cost B + SLR Bandwidth Cost B + Distant Regional Optical Network Cost + Non-Participant Assessment
Usage Charge C = NLR Bandwidth Cost C + SLR Bandwidth Cost C + Distant Regional Optical Network Cost + Non-Participant Assessment
NLR Bandwidth Cost A, B or C = NLR Marginal Cost x A, B or C%
SLR Bandwidth Cost A, B or C = SLR Marginal Cost X SLR Marginal Cost x A, B or C%
NLR/SLR Marginal Cost = NLR/SLR Direct Costs Associated With Bandwidth (interface cards, installation, DC power, maintenance, NOC engineering, administration + contribution to equipment replacement costs)
GT Affiliate (Cooperative) Agreement
Next Steps – Fiber Acquisition
• IRU / Lease / Trade / Donation– Metro– Rural
• Strategic Alliances– Private sector – I/CLEC / IXC / CATV / utilities– Public sector
• State Board of Regents
• Education and Research Consortiums
Next Steps – Equipment Procurement
• SONET
• Ethernet
• CWDM
• DWDM
Other Issues
• Politics (the science of relationship building)– Multi-level selling (top-down and bottom-up)
• What do I get for my money?
• What, no vote?
• Paradigm Shifts– Shared network infrastructure vs. dedicated point-to-
point connectivity
– Sales & Marketing (Business Development)
• Campus Network Infrastructure– Dedicated fiber connectivity to the lab
Other Issues (paperwork, paperwork & more paperwork)
• Organizational– Articles of Incorporation & Bylaws– IRS 501(c)(3) filing
• Procurement (pre-selection)– Fiber & Equipment RFP (Mandatories / Desirables)
• Vendor relations (post-selection)– Contracts
• MSA (Collocation & IRU)• Vendor
• Members (Participants)• MOUs / MOAs
SLR Distributed GigaPOP
• Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta
• 56 Marietta – Carrier Hotel– Abundance of fiber– Carrier neutral
• 345 Courtland Street– NLR Atlanta node
SLR Distributed GigaPOP
SLR - NLR Access• Georgia – Access Network #1
– Emory– Georgia State University– Morehouse School of Medicine
• Georgia – Access Network #2– University of Georgia - Athens– Medical College of Georgia – Augusta– Georgia Tech Savannah
• SoX Universities – Access Network #3 – South Carolina– Access Network #4 - Alabama
SLR - NLR Access Network #1
SLR - NLR Access Network #2
Strategic Alliance Proposal• The Deal
– SLR or educational entity provides optronics– NOC / O&M
• To be negotiated / contracted with fiber provider– Bandwidth
• Shared between both parties to the deal in direct proportion to their financial contribution
• Current Status– Fiber Providers Approached (CLECs, Cable Providers,
Utilities, etc.)– Utility has agreed in concept that proposal is feasible –
next steps vendor involvement & technical issue assessment
Other Regional Locations – SLR-NLR Access Networks #3, 4…#N
• Southern Crossroads (SoX)– South Carolina
• Qwest fiber?
– Alabama• Level 3 fiber?
– Tennessee / Kentucky• Qwest fiber?
• Leased Waves? (commercial or private network)
NLR Access Network #3 & #4
Thank You
Questions & Comments