CONVERGENCE

INITIATIVE

WWAN, CORE, WLAN, VIDEO, ERATE, VOICE

DATE ENTERPRISE
10/06 - 04/08 PVUSD
WWAN: Wireless
Wide Area Network
More Bandwidth
HS 3 mb/s to 600 mb/s
ES 1 mb/s to 100 mb/s
Largest K12 Internet (200mb/s) in Arizona
PVUSD Ownership
FCC Licenses
Complete - Adding Mesh Redundancy
Status
Completed - Technology Plan - 4.1.7
Savings - $500 to $700 per year in excess utilities
CORE: Network
Infrastructure
at each Site
More Local Bandwidth
100 to 1,000 mb/s backbone
Better Management
Voice, Video, Support Systems (energy,
security, etc.)
Quality of Service and Virtual Private Networks
Capability Expansion
Power Over Ethernet, Redundancy, Stability
Status
30 sites complete - July 1st ’08 Title sites
Technology Plan - 4.1
WLAN: Wireless
Local Area
Network
More Bandwidth
10 mb/s to 54mb/s
Aggregated to several hundred mb/s
Security and Management
Private SSID, Interference Robustness
Multiple Networks - student, teacher, systems
Inside and Outside - mobile phones
Power Over Ethernet
Status
Pilot (WFES) Complete - Begin Deploy ‘08/09
Technology Plan - 4.1.7
VIDEO: pTV, pCHAT,
pTUNES, pVO, pBRO
Better Management
Channel, Movie Selection HISTORY CHANNEL DISCOVERY CHANNEL
ANIMAL PLANET
Quality of Service ABC, CBS, CNN, CSPAN PBS
Accessibility and Distribution
Anytime, Anywhere, Anybody Access
Broadcast School, District, World
Status
Enterprise Ready - August ’08
Technology Plan - 4.1.1 and 4.1.2
No Special Systems - Head End Towers
No Special Cabling ($75,000 savings - DCES alone)
ERATE: Federal
Program - Title
Historical
Phone Service Only
October ’06 - Hardware and Service - Title Schools
Feds $1.4 million - PVUSD $0.4 million - CORE/VOIP
Auditing and Requirements
Only certain types of equipment and services
Must be in by July 1st, ’08 - will be
Equipment must remain at site for 3 years - will
After 3 years, we might redeploy and file eRate
again (twice in five years)
VOICE: VoIP
(Voice over IP)
Better Management/Service
Change, Adds, Deletions - Immediate
Presence - Wherever you are
Power Over Ethernet - Phone data jack
Unified System
ConnectMe Integration (Technology Plan -5.1.1)
DCES, Warehouse and Technology - WFES?
Status
Technology Plan - 4.1.4 - Complete ‘10/’11?
Cable Cost Savings, Reduced PRIs ($300,000
year), Labor
Convergence:
Status WWAN CORE WLAN VIDEO VOICE

100

75

50

25

2006
2007 0
2008
2009
2010
2011
VOICE: Phone
Carrier Cut-Over
MTI History
5 years ago - went from QWest to MTI
Not enough contiguous phone numbers
MTI has been bought 3 times in 18 months
Service to PVUSD has suffered, badly
Procurement and RFP
5 year extensions are up July 1st ’08
MTI, Eschelon, Integra, etc. - did not bid
Cox got the contract
Voice: Situation
Port Current PVUSD Numbers
Port 3,000 numbers
Rely on MTI/Eschelon/Integra to function
Port Front Office/Attendance
100 current lines to cross walk
Acquire new block of 5,000 contiguous numbers
Transition from old to new
Cut Over to New Lines
Acquire new block of 5,000 contiguous numbers
Cut over to new numbers - inform Spring/
Summer and Fall....
Decision Points
Accelerate WLAN Upgrade?
Complete in ’09 or ‘10
Accelerate VoIP?
Contract and Borrow More
Changing Technology - Soft Phone/Culture
Phone Number Cut Over
Port current, non-contiguous
Port 100 of current and implement new contiguous
Cut Over to new, contiguous
Band-aid