Governor's Utah Economic Summit 2011 Breakout Panel: "Broadband for Utah's Future" Dr. Mike Petersen, Utah Education Network--Presentation

1. The Governor’s Utah Economic
Summit
The Role of the Utah Education
Network in Providing Broadband
for Utah’s Future
March 28, 2011

2. The Relationship between broadband
infrastructure and economic
development
● Broadband allows regions and
● To be competitive and communities to compete
innovative in the 21st globally, attracting new firms,
century, communities investments and jobs.
must put broadband at the ● Utah communities without
forefront of economic broadband will find themselves
left out of the digital revolution.
development
● Local and state economic
development plans must
recognize the vital role of
broadband infrastructure
improvements.

3. Community anchor institutions and
broadband infrastructure development
● Every community ● Broadband connections at
should have these community anchor
institutions serve as the
affordable access to
springboard to residential
at least 1 gigabit per and business access to
second broadband broadband services.
service to anchor
institutions such as
schools, hospitals and
government buildings.

4. Utah Education Network plays an
“Anchor Tenant” role in expanding
broadband access
● UEN is an educational ● Governed by UEN
technology Steering Committee
partnership of public with equal
and higher education, representation of
providing educational higher education and
technology services public education.
statewide. Governor, legislature,
and state library
system also
represented.
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5. UEN’s Core Responsibility
• To provide a statewide ● The network is a public-
wide area network with private partnership between
robust and reliable UEN and Utah
connectivity to the telecommunications
Internet for every public providers.
school and college, and ● UEN does not own the
every public library. network. We lease circuits
from telecommunications
companies using multi-year
contracts.

6. UEN is an anchor tenant for
independent telecom providers
● We enter into long-term ● Network and Internet services
contracts with independent qualify for federal E-Rate
telecom providers to lease reimbursements which cover
backbone and middle mile about 70% of the cost.
fiber segments ● Telecom providers rely on
● Network services are UEN-leased infrastructure
provided by UEN with no and revenue from our long-
cost to the school districts term contracts to expand
and colleges and broadband capabilities to
universities. residential and business
customers throughout their
communities.

7. UEN’s leased circuits benefit
education, communities and business

8. Utah State University offers an
Excellent Example of Savings

10. County-level network example
Utah County

11. UEN Goal: high capacity fiber to every
college and university and public school
and library in Utah
● All public colleges and ● Most elementary and
universities connect to charter schools have at
UEN with at least gigabit least 100 mb/s
fiber connections connections
● All public high schools ● 150 elementary and
and middle schools charter schools and most
connect to UEN, most public libraries do not
with gigabit fiber have fiber connectivity
connections

12. Community Impact of UEN Network
Connections
● Approximately 810 ● This benefits the entire
community educational community:
anchor institutions are ● About 219,000
now connected to UEN households and
network with gigabit thousands of
fiber. businesses are adjacent
to these community
anchor institutions, and
can take advantage of
these fiber
improvements

13. What Tasks Remain to Complete
Statewide Network Goal?
● There remain about 265 ● That’s equivalent to one DSL
community educational or cable modem connection
anchor institutions that being shared by everyone
using the school or library.
still have T-1 copper
● 150 elementary and charter
network connections schools
● 60 public libraries
● 55 Head Start centers

14. UEN received $17.5 Million NTIA
Broadband Technology Opportunity
Program Grant
● 105 Locations will be
● Major goal: connect
connected: elementary
schools, libraries, head
and charter schools,
start centers with 100 to
libraries, and head start
1000 mb/s fiber
centers
connections
● Because of savings, we
are now requesting
approval to add about
70 more sites and 2
important backbone
segments

15. KSL-TV coverage of news conference to
announce award
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=9851502

16. Status of BTOP Project
Jordan Hills Elementary
● Construction,
installation, circuit
turn-up is finished or
underway at 40 sites
Rose Springs Elementary

17. Community Impact of Current and
Future UEN Network Projects
● More than 70,000 households and a
thousand businesses are adjacent to
community anchor institutions in our
funded NTIA BTOP project.
● Broadband services will be improved and
made affordable for all of these
residential and business customers

18. UEN isn’t Just a network provider
● We provide essential ● Interactive video-
services for conferencing
education using the ● Hosting web and
network enterprise
statewide network
applications and web
and Internet resources
● Technology training for
teachers

19. Interactive Video Conferencing
An Internet-based video-
conferencing system
broadcasting 220 events
per day to 750 locations
statewide to thousands of
students. Staff
increasingly use the
system for administrative
meetings and
professional training.
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20. Hosting Enterprise Applications, Web
Resources
● More than 120,000 Utah ● Web services delivered at
college students and http://www.uen.org. are
instructors use UEN’s essential for Utah
Course Management teachers and students.
System each day to access ● Monthly, there are about
their classes online 1.3 million visits to UEN
● Utah Electronic High web resources.
School
● Over 2 million log-ins
monthly by K-12 and
college students to Pioneer
Online Library.

21. Technology Training, UEN-TV
● Professional development ● Cooperating with the
courses are relied on by State Office of
thousands of Utah Education and
teachers for licensure Regional Service
certification and to Centers, UEN offers
improve their technology training in 80+
skills. technology related
● KUEN-TV broadcasts a topics.
rich schedule of
instructional programming
statewide.