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Mountain Connect 2015Rural Broadband Challenges
Jim English – Colorado Mountain College Kate Robinson – Western State Colorado UniversityMatthew McGlamery – Fort Lewis College
Colorado Mountain College
CMC Statistics
• Founded 1967• 9 Counties• 11 locations• 20,000 unduplicated students• 4500 FTE• 85% of the students are from Colorado• 18% minority population• 12 to 1 – College-wide student / faculty ratio• Average part-time student = 38 years of age• Average full-time student = 24 years of age
AspenBuena Vista BreckenridgeCarbondale
Dillon Edwards
GlenwoodLeadville *
RifleSpring Valley *
Steamboat Springs *
* Residential Campus
Residential Hall Capacity
Leadville – 95Spring Valley – 216Steamboat – 224
Broadband Connectivity
• 100 Meg MOE connection – FRGP• 300 Meg connection CenturyLink
100 Meg FRGP1 month % utilization
100 Meg FRGP1 week % utilization
300 Meg CenturyLink1 month % utilization
300 Meg CenturyLink1 week % utilization
Bandwidth / Broadband Future Growth
Two issues: • Redundant affordable bandwidth to all locations• Additional affordable Broadband capacity
Mountain Connect 2015
Western State Colorado University
• Located in Gunnison on the western slope of Colorado• 7700 feet elevation• ~ 2400 students• ~ 430 Staff/Faculty• 473 rooms/apartments on campus• 300 APs• 470 Mbps bandwidth• Average 1800 devices on wireless
Current Internet Connectivity
• We have one 500 Mbps MoE circuit from CenturyLink• Western provides bandwidth to the City and County of Gunnison
Bandwidth Growth
Increased # of devices
Challenges
• CenturyLink owns the only fiber into Gunnison coming from Montrose• If we purchased bandwidth from someone other than CenturyLink, it
would still be running over the same fiber• No redundancy• Low residency graduate programs• Cloud applications• Meeting expectations of students coming from urban areas
Proposed Solutions
• RFP for bandwidth 1 year in advance of contract expiration to see if someone will build into Gunnison
• FRGP as an option to reduce amount of bandwidth needed
MOUNTAIN CONNECT 2015BROADBAND CHALLENGES FOR
RURAL COLLEGES & UNIVERISITES
Fort Lewis College – Durango Colorado
Fort Lewis College – Durango Colorado
Fort Lewis College
Public Liberal Arts 3751 Undergraduate
25 Graduate 181 Faculty 309 Staff
1700 Beds 900 Mbs Internet 321 Access Points
G through ACExpanding
Internet Connectivity
300 Mbs – Front Range Giga Pop, Denver Colorado MoE circuit from Centurylink Commodity Internet Internet 2
300 Mbs – Brainstorm Internet – Durango 1Gb Private Fiber
300 Mbs – Cogent Communications – Albuequrque 1Gb Transport via FastTrack Communications
Internet Bandwidth Growth 1 day average
Device Growth 1st week of Fall 2014 Semester
Challenges
Residential Bandwidth Growth Home Experience Expectations
Cloud Applications Application growth is all in the cloud
Internet of Things Network Reliability / Availability
Critical to: Instruction Commerce Entertainment
Mountain Connect 2015Rural Broadband Challenges
Jim English – Colorado Mountain College Kate Robinson – Western State Colorado UniversityMatthew McGlamery – Fort Lewis College