Prepared by Jim Bates, Director ETS; PMP, CISSP
15 July 2014
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

Dept. Of Education University of Alaska
• Online with Libraries
(OWL) approx. 100 libraries
• Municipal or borough School
Access programs approx. 120 schools
• Distance Education
• Public Access
Computers
• 17 campuses serving over 20,000 students
TeleHealth
• Primarily rural
Hospitals and health care providers
• Over 200 participants
• Alaska Psychiatric
Institute
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

• ETS serves over 22,000 State and partner agency employees in 70 of the 355 communities (US census) located across Alaska.
• Organizationally, ETS provides computing and telecommunications services in support of the business of executive branch state agencies serving Alaskans.
• The Legislative and Judicial branches of State Government as well as commissions, corporations, councils and the university may elect to share in our services.
• Although broadband opportunities in rural spaces are a small part of what ETS does, these reflect over 63% of our connectivity investment.
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

Enterprise E-mail
• 12 systems into 1
• Improved business
• Reduces costs
• Effective calendaring
CyberSecurity
• Reduced risk
• Improved awareness
• Statewide policies
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit
Data Centers
• JNU-ANC-FAI
• Private Cloud
• Reduces costs

SATS/ALMR
• 2-way radios
• 80% of population along road system
• First Responders’ Use
• Microwave Backbone
Core Phones
• JNU-ANC-FAI
• Some Palmer, Ketchikan
• Reduces costs
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

JNU-ANC-FAI -- 80% of SOA employees in 180 bldgs.
Kenai Peninsula & Kodiak – 5% in 52 bldgs.
Palmer / Wasilla – 5% in 31 bldgs.
* Road systems (rural) – 5% in 32 communities
* Satellite (rural) locations – 5% in 35 communities
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

1. Bandwidth is a measurement of how much data can be transferred at a time, while speed is a measurement of how fast things are done.
2. Bandwidth and speed can be synonymous when measuring how fast you can download a file.
3. Bandwidth may not directly translate to speed in real time applications.
4. Latency is delay - the amount of time it takes a packet to travel from source to destination. Together, latency and bandwidth define the speed and capacity of a network.
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

1.
Where the internet meets a private network.
2.
Where the business of citizens is transacted through secure State Government web applications such as a resident’s Permanent Fund
Application registration.
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

• Improved VPN technologies
• New competition: Verizon and Quintillion
• New rural build-out of terrestrial infrastructure
• Decreasing broadband cost vs. high cost rural networking
(63% of connectivity spend)
• High desire and expectation to deliver better service anywhere
All combine to allow us to target broadband pilot projects for the State of Alaska, focused on the service- starved west and north regions of the state.
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

• Broadband pilots in Dutch Harbor, Dillingham, King
Salmon and soon Nome. We are testing data, voice, wireless and directory services with Marine Highways at terminals (terrestrial) and soon on ships (satellite).
• Given new choices, we can provide the service needed by rural citizens following a reasonable cost model.
This has only recently been made possible by the improvements that come with the effort to deliver public broadband infrastructure.
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

• Follow the lead of the work done by the broadband task force.
• Promote legislation to further develop infrastructure in
Alaska.
• Follow a fiber cable deployment using right-of-way model successfully in use by states like Illinois and
Texas.
• Find a way to leverage e-rate, telehealth and other government investments with partner providers.
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit

• http://www.androidauthority.com/wireless-carriersscared-fcc-changing-definition-broadband-403548/ By
William Neilson Jr. 7/12/14
• John Monagle, Enterprise Infrastructure Manager – ETS
– And other ETS staff and operational data and documentation
• http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/internet/d ifference-between-bandwidth-and-speed/
• http://jpstm.blogspot.com/2011/08/difference-betweenspeed-vs.html
Statewide Broadband Task Force Summit