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1 UW Network Proposed Design and Estimated Cost Date: September 18, 2013 Prepared by: John Krogman (Chair), Chief Operating Officer, Division of Information Technology (DoIT), UW-Madison Maria Alvarez-Stroud, Director, Center for Community Technology Solutions, UW- Extension Chris Ashley, Deputy General Counsel, UW System Perry Brunelli, Director, Network Services, Division of Information Technology, UW- Madison Pat Christian, Manager, Wide Area Networks, Division of Information Technology, UW- Madison David Crass, Director of Research Cyberinfrastructure, UW-Milwaukee Lorie Docken, Interim Chief Information Officer, UW System Chip Eckhart, Chief Information Officer, UW-Eau Claire Joanne Jones, Associate Director, Chief Financial Officer, Division of Information Technology, UW-Madison Nancy Lynch, Associate Director and Senior University Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs, UW- Madison

2 Introduction On June 27, 2013, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that it was withdrawing the intent to award a contract for network services, opting instead to provision and operate its own network to serve all UW institutions and their affiliated entities. This decision resulted from discussions between the Board of Regents, UW System Administration (UWSA), and UW-Madison. UW s research and education enterprise demands strong assurance of uninterrupted robust network functionality. The potential for ongoing appeals, litigation and legislative changes created too much uncertainty for our operations and the future of our network, requiring that we pursue a different option. The UW network backbone is an extremely complex and intricate grid comprised of: Access rights to fiber UW acquired from numerous sources throughout the state and the Midwest: Arrangements established by WiscNet with other networks to carry each other s traffic at no cost (peering relationships); and Access to networks through UW s and/or WiscNet s memberships in certain consortia. Since the UW does not control all parts of the network without WiscNet as the vendor, we have to fill critical gaps in our network that are currently met by peering and other arrangements established by WiscNet. While transitioning to an entirely UW-provisioned and operated network, we must also maintain the connectivity and the current high level of network services for all UW System institutions and affiliates. We have completed an initial review of the network infrastructure, fiber path options, and other necessary components that also identified operational gaps. These options will include establishing our own peering relationships, and using the procurement process to purchase internet access (transit), access to needed fiber paths or provisioning our own fiber paths. Until these gaps can be filled and the transition completed, we need to maintain current network access through WiscNet. The new UW network will provide services to the 13 UW System four-year campuses and the 13 twoyear UW Colleges, as well as UW-affiliated entities including University Research Park in Madison, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Innovation Campus in Milwaukee, Pioneer Farm in Platteville, La Crosse Medical Health Sciences Consortium, and other like entities. These affiliates are key components of UW System s research, education, and outreach missions, and they rely on a highperformance network to fulfill those missions. Recent clarifications of Wis. Stat ensure that the UW will maintain critical connections to regional, national, and international networks such as Internet2, BOREAS-Net, and the Northern Tier Network Consortium. UW will use the newly created statutory process to establish connections to additional networks and establish peering relationships as needed in the future. In essence, very simplified, the UW will need to procure hardware and establish peering relationships to provision a network on the fiber it controls. WiscNet will need to secure fiber and transport to provision a parallel network utilizing the hardware and peering relationships it controls. This report outlines the current design, estimated costs and implementation timeline for the UW network only. WiscNet is independently working on provisioning its network. The design will include necessary upgrades to the UW network to meet the administrative, research and academic needs of all the UW institutions and affiliates. 1

3 Operating Guidelines In order to plan and design the network, a Tiger Team of subject matter experts was appointed which included UW-Madison, UW System Administration and UW System institution representatives. The charge given to the committee was: The Team will develop a preliminary project plan by September 1, 2013 to transition all 26 UW System campuses to a UW System Network. The plan will include the technology, equipment, timeline, personnel and costs. The report will also identify what assets are to be divided between UWSA and WiscNet and the valuation of those assets as well as identify any legislative changes needed to ensure successful implementation of the transition plan. The team reported to and was directed by UW System Senior Vice President for Administration and Fiscal Affairs David Miller, UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Darrell Bazzell, UW-Madison Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Paul DeLuca and UW-Madison Chief Information Officer (CIO) Bruce Maas. These sponsors had the decision-making authority to direct the team. The following assumptions guided the team and the UW staff in designing the network and formulating a plan: The UW will work with WiscNet during the transition to minimize any disruption to the UW campuses and WiscNet members. The UW-Madison Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will design, operate and manage this UW System Network. All UW System institutions (all 26 campuses, UW Extension and UW System Administration) must utilize and ultimately share in the cost of provisioning and operating the network. This will also include campus affiliates. Transition from the current WiscNet managed network to the UW System network will occur over the next 12 to 18 months. UW-Madison has contract authority/management for the new UW System network. All service providers will be treated equally in providing services and access to the network and in regard to access or presence within campus facilities. UW System will competitively bid any needed telecommunication services. The UW-Extension Building Community Capacity Broadband (BCCB) grant fiber allocated to UW System will be used in this design. The plan will include recurring equipment refreshes and network upgrades to meet the needs of UW System. Virtually every UW campus has formal or informal agreements within their communities to interconnect or share fiber, transport or equipment. In general, UW System and the campuses are to assume that existing peering, hosting and sharing arrangements will continue. An inventory of those arrangements and situations has been tabulated. Currently there are over 260 such agreements, many of them proprietary. Historically, the UW has not interfered with other BOREAS-Net members (Iowa, Iowa State and Minnesota) ability to enter into agreements with other entities. The existing BOREAS-Net operational approach will continue: each member will make their own operational decisions. The team has the authority to negotiate and propose an asset distribution with WiscNet. The Tiger Team can freely communicate with technical members of the UW System community. Public communication should be made through UW System and UW Communication staff, coordinated by DoIT Communications. 2

4 Research and Education Network Requirements The UW statewide network infrastructure will continue to serve the operational and advanced production and experimental network requirements of the UW System research and education community. This network is essential cyberinfrastructure for University and all other UW System Institutions to communicate, collaborate and compete with peers throughout the state, the region, the United States and the world. This research and education network, consisting of both critical infrastructure and essential network services, is required to lead and participate in global research projects, recruit and retain top research faculty, support advanced teaching and learning methodologies, and provide robust administrative services. This cyberinfrastructure must support the UW-Madison and UW System institutions at our current level and must meet our future needs and scale, handling the daily research, education and Internet connectivity needs of approximately 39,000 faculty and staff and more than 181,000 students. Over the past 20+ years, the networking capacity of the university and the ability to perform research on the network elements and data flows have been a critical component of success for thousands of individuals in our research, teaching and outreach communities. Increasingly, network intensive users test the limits of current network technologies, while, at the same time, more of our research community is joining the ranks of researchers with big data needs. A representative sample of the advanced technologies utilizing the network highlight the complexity of UW s existing research and education network: UW-Milwaukee: o Atmospheric Sciences Program o Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) UW-Superior: o Lake Superior Research Institute (LSRI) o Transportation and Logistics Research Center o Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute (GLMRI) o Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve UW-Madison: o Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) o High Energy Physics Group o IceCube o Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) Data Center o Open Science Grid (OSG) o Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) o Materials Science Center o The UW Biotechnology Center o Engine Research Center (ERC) o Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) o Biological Magnetic Resonance databank (BMRB) o National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison (NMRFAM) o School of Medicine and Public Health: Wisconsin Hospital Connections o The Education Leadership & Policy Analysis Cisco Telepresence Synchronous Courses o The National Center for the Integration of Teaching, Research and Learning Online Courses 3

5 UW System Enterprise Applications: o Libraries o Digital Collections o Learning Management System (D2L) o Human Resources System (HRS) o Financial System (SFS) o Budget System o 1400 Distance Learning Courses o Educational Outreach and Partnerships for K-12 Educators and Students o Continuity of Operations Programs and Services, Emergency Response Requirements The network must also be designed for future technologies and capacities. For example, the UW-Madison campus network has installed equipment that will provide network border infrastructure that will allow UW-Madison to advance the timetable to complete the connection to the Internet2 Innovation Network. Connections to the innovation network carry stipulations of connection through a layer 2 100Gb switch, the development of a Science DMZ, and support for OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking (SDN) advanced technologies. Overview of Technical and Operational Network Design The proposed new network design represents a continued long-term investment by the UW to build the next generation advanced research and education network in support of our research, academic and administrative missions. The design leverages all existing and some new UW System and UW campus fiber assets as well as UW-Madison investments in BOREAS-Net (Broadband Optical Research, Education and Sciences Network) with external partners (University of Minnesota, University of Iowa and Iowa State University) to light fiber assets with telecommunication carrier grade dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) optical equipment. These resources enable a next generation research network that improves service availability (see Figure 1: UW System Accessible Infrastructure) while maintaining services from our existing network provider (WiscNet) during the transition. The optical backbone of the new network is an in-state fiber ring connecting Eau Claire, Madison, Milwaukee and Green Bay together. (See Figure 2: Physical Network Design) Dedicated circuits built on top of fiber and DWDM infrastructure to various two and four year campus facilities will connect to the routed backbone. The routed backbone of the new network is a 100 Gigabit per second ring (Gbps) connecting UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and locations in Chicago to each other. Each four year UW institution, except UW-Madison, will have a primary 10Gbps circuit to network (router) equipment located at either UW-Madison or UW-Milwaukee, whichever is geographically closer, while UW-Madison s primary link will be 100Gbps. A redundant 10Gbps link (UW-Madison will have 2x10Gbps links) utilizing redundant fiber or a commercial telecommunication carrier-provided circuit (where fiber gaps exist) will connect to network equipment in the other UW-Madison/UW-Milwaukee facilities for redundancy purposes. Five two-year UW-College institutions will have 1Gbps fiber (primary and secondary) connectivity to network equipment at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee; the remaining eight locations will utilize 100Mbps connectivity services from the BadgerNet Converged Network (See Figure 3: Logical Network Design). 4

6 Hut 5 Figure 1: UW System Accessible Infrastructure Knapp Thorp Wausau-SP Marian Summit Lake Fond du Lac SP Waukesha - SP Watertown Altoona 5

7 Figure 2: Physical Network Design St. Paul 6

8 Figure 3: Logical Network Design 7

9 Each campus, except UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Eau Claire due to existing equipment, will connect their campus edge equipment (i.e. firewall, routers) to new network demarcation equipment. UW-Colleges will connect to a new Cisco ME3400e or equivalent device with 1Gbps port(s). 4 year UW campuses will interconnect to 2 physically diverse Cisco 4500-x or equivalent devices on their campus with 10Gbps Ethernet connections. Campuses are expected to provide ample space, power and cooling for this equipment with specific, individual arrangements to be made in early Data flows on the network include intercampus, commodity and special purpose research and education network connections. Commodity Internet service will be provided through a mix of two paid commercial Internet Service Providers, settlement-free (free) peering or traffic exchanges in Chicago and Wisconsin as well as some Internet content caching services (i.e. Akamai). Data flows are based on spring 2013 actual peak utilization levels with a 35% compound annual growth rate matching historically observed growth rates. Research and education (R&E) network services will include diverse connectivity to Internet2 s 100Gbps Innovation Network, including Internet2 s advanced layer 2 service and layer 3 (routed) network, in Milwaukee and at the CIC OmniPoP exchange in Chicago. Additional connections to popular R&E networks not available via Internet2 (i.e. NLR) will be obtained through CIC OmniPoP and/or other special interconnection arrangements. Each campus can reach each other, the commodity Internet and special purpose research and education networks through this network design. Network engineering and operations services will be provided by UW-Madison s Division of Information Technology using predominantly existing UW-Madison and BOREAS-Net tools, instrumentation and resources. The network will be monitored 24x7x365 by experienced UW-Madison staff using well established, ITIL-based incident and change management procedures that have been honed through years of oversight of the WiscNet network. The new UW System network design is planned to meet layer 1 (i.e. circuits), layer 2 (i.e. VLANs) and layer 3 (i.e. routing decisions) network requirements for the next five years and is sufficiently flexible and scalable to meet current and potential future network services demands. Valuation of Current Network Assets In the current UW/WiscNet vendor relationship, essentially UW System owns all the fiber and WiscNet owns all the hardware assets. The UW asked AE Business Solutions (AEBS) to estimate the current value of all of the existing hardware assets. The original purchase price of these assets was $1,540,533. AEBS valued the assets today at $380,117. The June 30, 2013 depreciation book value on these assets was $502,983. Once the network transition is completed in about 18 months, both the market value and the book value will be reassessed. Under the current depreciation schedule, the book value of the assets will be at or near zero at that time. Current UW Network Annual Cost The annual cost of operating and maintaining the current UW Network, utilizing WiscNet, is tabulated in Figure 4. The annual cost for comparison purposes was based on FY13 actual expenditures with a slight adjustment in fiber procurement cost, as FY13 s fiber procurement expenditure was higher than average. Thus the annual cost for the current network is estimated to be $4,009,739. 8

10 Figure 4 Current UW Network Annual Cost Paid by Institutions WiscNet Access & Fees: UW System Portion BCN $ 374,524 UW System FY13 Network Costs Paid by UW System - OLIT Internet 2 Cost Share & Northern Tier Annual Dues CenturyLink Annual Maint. Midwest Fiber Annual Maint. BCCB - Grant Contribution (one time) Fond du Lac CAN Fiber (build) Paid by Madison & Milw. WiscNet Access & Fees: Campus Portion DOT Fiber Annual Lease Internet 2 Cost Shares Total UW-Colleges $ 78,756 42,244 $ $ 495,524 UW-Eau Claire $ 65,797 $ 35,203 $ 101,000 UW-Extension $ 11,044 $ 5,456 $ 16,500 UW-Green Bay $ 46,358 $ 24,642 $ 71,000 UW-La Crosse $ 59,317 $ 31,683 $ 142,066 $ 233,066 UW-Madison $ 506,417 $ 274,583 $ 105,790 $ 886,790 UW-Milwaukee $ 214,830 $ 116,170 $ 103,094 $ 434,094 UW-Oshkosh $ 65,797 $ 35,203 $ 101,000 UW-Parkside $ 26,919 $ 14,081 $ 41,000 UW-Platteville $ 59,317 $ 31,683 $ 142,066 $ 233,066 UW-River Falls $ 56,077 $ 29,923 $ 86,000 UW-Stevens Point $ 59,317 $ 31,683 $ 131,406 $ 222,406 UW-Stout $ 59,317 $ 31,683 $ 91,000 UW-Superior $ 20,439 $ 10,561 $ 52,677 $ 83,677 UW-System OIS $ 6,000 $ - $ 6,000 UW-System OLIT $ 327,244 $ 104,294 $ 32,306 $ 42,772 $ 575,130 $ 18,370 $ 1,100,116 UW-Whitewater $ 65,797 $ 35,203 $ 101,000 $ 1,401,500 $ 750,000 $ 842,740 $ 327,244 $ 104,294 $ 32,306 $ 42,772 $ 575,130 $ 18,370 $ 208,884 $ 4,303,239 Estimated Annual Costs: $ 1,401,500 $ 750,000 $ 842,740 $ 327,244 $ 104,294 $ 32,306 $ 42,772 $ 300,000 $ 208,884 $ 4,009,739 Notes: 1) Midwest Fiber annual maintenance; due to timing issues there were two maintenance payments in FY13. 2) BCN fees: FY12 overpayment credit applied to FY13 (actual expenditure - $668,468); used May 2012 charges to estimate FY13 charges ($842,740). 3) WiscNet buy down - taken from UWSA's previous fiscal year account balance held at WiscNet 4) UW System's Internet 2 cost share ($103,094) was taken from UWSA's previous year account balance held at WiscNet 5) UWSA OLIT has 1 FTE in its budget for Network IT Management Consultant; FY13 salary for this position was covered with IIA (BCCB grant). 6) FY13 fiber build costs ($575,130 and $18,370) a bit higher; normally budgeted at $300,000. Total Projected Network Cost A detailed estimate of the cost of the new network was prepared, with the summary shown in Figure 5. Both a five year and seven year cost projection was made utilizing a cash basis analysis. No attempt was made to suggest a funding model. However, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) typically does depreciate the cost of networking equipment over several years to smooth out the needed funding requirements. Comparing the current cost of utilizing WiscNet (Figure 4) with the estimated cost of the new UW Network (Figure 5), the projected costs are $12.8 million (64%) higher on a five year basis (see Figure 6). Without adjusting for inflation, the current network total cost over five years is projected to be $20.0 million. The estimated total cost of ownership over five years of the new UW Network, with months of operational overlap of the two networks, is $32.8 million. 9

11 Figure 5 Projected Cost of New UW Network UW-System New Network 5 and 7 Year Total Cost of Ownership (cash basis) 9/3/2013 CASH Basis Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 Non-recurring Costs Connectivity (circuits + fiber) $ 1,532,054 $ 900,000 $ 300,000 $ 300,000 $ 300,000 $ 300,000 $ 300,000 Optical hardware, collocation and DC power $ 2,817,400 $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ 500,000 Switching and routing hardware $ 2,829,000 $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ 1,680,500 Systems engineering and operations $ 55,000 $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ 55,000 Non-recurring costs subtotal $ 7,233,454 $ 900,000 $ 300,000 $ 300,000 $ 300,000 $ 300,000 $ 2,535,500 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 Annual-recurring Costs Connectivity (circuits + fiber) $ 1,277,966 $ 1,869,824 $ 1,817,196 $ 1,819,792 $ 1,822,519 $ 1,834,699 $ 1,876,494 Optical hardware, collocation and DC power $ 431,400 $ 446,825 $ 459,871 $ 473,570 $ 487,953 $ 503,056 $ 541,414 Switching and routing hardware $ - $ 124,968 $ 127,221 $ 129,587 $ 144,666 $ 147,274 $ 205,514 Internet access (transit) $ 2,228,500 $ 956,821 $ 539,590 $ 485,631 $ 655,602 $ 885,062 $ 1,194,834 Research and education networking $ - $ 394,333 $ 399,333 $ 404,333 $ 409,333 $ 414,333 $ 414,333 Systems engineering and operations $ - $ 132,974 $ 139,623 $ 146,604 $ 153,934 $ 161,631 $ 169,712 Direct labor (including fringe) $ 1,062,500 $ 1,062,500 $ 1,062,500 $ 1,062,500 $ 1,062,500 $ 1,062,500 $ 1,062,500 Annual-recurring costs subtotal $ 5,000,366 $ 4,988,245 $ 4,545,334 $ 4,522,017 $ 4,736,507 $ 5,008,555 $ 5,464,800 Annual total cost of ownership $ 12,233,820 $ 5,888,245 $ 4,845,334 $ 4,822,017 $ 5,036,507 $ 5,308,555 $ 8,000,300 5 year total cost of ownership $ 32,825,922 7 year total cost of ownership $ 46,134,777 Figure 6 Cost Comparison: Existing and New UW Networks Cost Comparison Five Year Basis FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 Total Existing Network Utilizing WiscNet (Figure 4) $4,009,739 $4,009,739 $4,009,739 $4,009,739 $4,009,739 $20,048,695 New UW Network (Figure 5) $12,233,820 $5,888,245 $4,845,334 $4,822,017 $5,036,507 $32,825,922 Increased Cost of New UW Network $8,224,081 $1,878,506 $835,595 $812,278 $1,026,768 $12,777,227 Percent Increase 205% 47% 21% 20% 26% 64% 10

12 It should be noted that three-quarters of all the estimated expenditures of the new UW Network will be external to the UW System (see Figure 7). These are expenditures that are or will be made with fiber providers, telecommunication carriers, equipment manufacturers and other commercial vendors. Some of these purchases will utilize existing UW or state contracts; others will require new request for proposals (RFPs) or bidding. Figure 7 New UW Network Expenditures by Source Projected New UW Network Expenditures 25% Total Internal UW Expenditures 75% Total External Vendor Expenditures Projected Implementation Timeline The following preliminary new UW network deployment plan set of milestones assumes several constraints including: Maximize uptime for both WiscNet and UW System campuses UW replaces WiscNet optical equipment with like if not equivalent hardware Liberal circuit infrastructure sharing during the migration period WiscNet meets timelines identified below to migrate onto its new network Ample fiscal and personnel resources are provided and available for this project Political or legal actions do not halt work activities Projected Timeline: Sept Oct 2013 UW: Finalize budget & obtain project approvals to proceed Oct - Nov 2013 UW: Prepare & Issue RFP for optical hardware UW & WiscNet: Finalize designs & circuit demands 11

13 Nov - Dec 2013 UW: Evaluate and Award RFP for optical hardware UW: Order routing, switching, multiplexing hardware Jan 2014 UW: Order optical hardware UW: Order transit, CIC-WRIPS service upgrades UW: Install new routing equipment UW: Prepare RFP for circuits WiscNet: Sign long-haul contracts, colocation agreements WiscNet: Install upgrades in Chicago Feb 2014 WiscNet: Site survey new core pops WiscNet: Order power systems & ancillary support equipment UW: Issue & Award RFP for circuits UW: Light up 100G ring, interconnect networks UW: Cut over UW-Madison primary connectivity UW: Cut over UW-Milwaukee UW: Order BCN service Mar 2014 UW: Receive optical hardware UW: Deploy MSN-Platteville path UW: Deploy Tomah-La Crosse path UW: Cut over UW-Platteville UW: Cut over UW-La Crosse UW: Swap out optical hardware MSN & EC WiscNet: Order circuits Apr 2014 UW: Award RFP for circuits WiscNet: Move caches & servers and masstore service WiscNet: Splicing to new long-haul paths WiscNet: Build MUFN path to MSN WiscNet: Confirm all fiber continuity WiscNet: Perform other site surveys & order equipment May 2014 UW: Deploy MKE-SHB-GB path UW: Deploy ORD-P27-Parkside-MKE path UW: Deploy Fox Valley path UW: Cut over UW-Oshkosh June 2014 WiscNet: Deploy new ORD-MKE path, relocate MKE Juniper MX UW: Deploy GB-EC optical path UW: Cut over UWGB UW: Connect to BCN in Madison 12

14 July 2014 WiscNet: Deploy new MKE-GB path UW: Deploy GB-Wausau-EC UW: Cut over all BCN sites UW: Cut over UW-Eau Claire UW: Cut over UW-Stevens Point August 2014 WiscNet: Deploy new GB-EC-MSP UW: Deploy new EC-MSP 2 nd pair path UW: Cut over UW-River Falls UW: Cut over UW-Stout UW: Cut over UW-Superior Sept 2014 UW: Deploy new MSN-MKE 2 nd pair path UW: Provision remaining optical circuits UW: Cut over remaining campuses & backup connectivity Oct Project timeline contingency with completion before a heavy frost occurs and dampens any necessary conduit or fiber construction installation activities Nov Estimated completion Potential Legislative Changes: In order to avoid any serious disruptions to UW operations and instructional and research operations, the UW must maintain connectivity through WiscNet pending the transition to a new UW network. This complex transition and switchover to the new UW network will minimally take 12 to 18 months. Listed below are specific areas of concern that will likely need legislative action to allow UW to comply with the law during the transition. 1. Wisconsin Statute Sections (3)(a) and 3m (a), prohibit UW from serving as member, partner, or shareholder of WiscNet as of July 1, 2013, and subsection (3r) prohibits WiscNet from occupying any facilities owned or leased by UW after January 1, Although UW institutions are no longer represented on the WiscNet Board of Directors, and have taken other steps to sever its ties to WiscNet, during the transition period, UW needs to maintain connectivity through its current operational relationship with WiscNet. To comply with the statutory provisions, legislative action to extend the date to correspond with the anticipated transition period of 12 to 18 months is needed. We recommend requesting an extension of the deadline to January 31, 2015 or the addition of a general provision that suspends the application and enforcement of as a whole until January 31, 2015 for the sole purpose of allowing UW to transition to the new UW network. 2. Wisconsin Statute Section (2) allows UW to use telecommunications services only for purpose of carrying out its mission and prohibits UW from providing "telecommunications services," that are available from a private telecommunications provider, to general public or to any public or private entity, except as authorized under (3m). That provision allows UW to 13

15 Summary provide telecommunications services for the purpose of interconnection to third parties including BOREAS, Internet2, and Northern Tier Network Consortium and any other third party entity with the primary purpose to advance academic research of higher education establishments of which UW was a member as of February 1, 2013, except for WiscNet. WiscNet needs access to UW fiber to continue serving UW during the transition but will simultaneously use that fiber to serve other WiscNet members that do not fall under the exception above. To the extent this continued arrangement during the transition would be considered to violate the applicable provisions of , legislative action would be needed to delay application of the statutory provisions pending final transition to the UW Network. We recommend requesting legislation that suspends the application of as a whole until January 31, 2015 for the sole purpose of allowing UW to transition to the new UW network. The proposed new UW Network is designed to meet the current and projected UW System needs for the next five to seven years. Based on experience and requirements analysis, it is designed to support the academic, research and administrative missions of all the UW System institutions. As detailed in this report, the new UW Network will cost approximately 64% more over five years than the current UW/WiscNet network and will minimally take 14 months to provision and transition. This will certainly be a dynamic undertaking, as emerging network technologies, available fiber paths and potential new research and education partners will likely change throughout the project and during subsequent operations. Every effort will be made to absolutely minimize any disruption to the campuses or the WiscNet community during the transition, while maintaining a robust, reliable and economical network. 14

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