TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Vice President/CIO - Paul Czarapata, Ed.D.

Average peak connection – The Washington Post

BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE

• Limited high capacity fiber available today

• Kentucky is 46th in nation for broadband

• 23% of rural population has no access vs 1.5% of urban areas

• Only 30% eastern Ky households adopt broadband

• High speed internet by itself probably will not bring business to Ky, but it will level the playing field

• No incentive to bring Internet to underserved/unserved communities

The Current State

• “Middle Mile” project between worldwide internet and the “Last Mile”• Last mile = connects homes and businesses to the “Middle Mile”• Last mile happens via Internet Service Providers (Windstream,

TimeWarner, AT&T, etc.)

• All 120 counties

• 3000 miles of fiber optic cable

• Public/private partnership with Macquarie Capital

• $300 million project

• $50 million state bonds & government grants, remainder private investment

• Approx. 250 priority locations (including all of KCTCS)

• Eastern Ky is first stage

• Completion by Fall 2018

Network by fall 2018