School Board Presentation August 19, 2010

C.I.N.C

Chippewa valley Inter Networking Consortium

Objectives this evening:

✤ Give you a brief history of CINC.

✤ What have been the benefits of CINC for our district?

✤ Recent news for CINC and what does the future hold.

What is CINC?

✤ A regional Community Area Network (CAN) work group that formed in 1999 that shares a broadband infrastructure.

✤ Consists of 72 miles of fiber.

✤ 150 locations connected.

✤ 18 current members.

✤ The Chippewa Falls School District built it’s own fiber network in 2003 at a cost of $647,912

Original Members (1999)

✤ CESA 10

✤ Chippewa Falls School District

✤ Chippewa Valley Technical College

✤ City of Eau Claire

✤ Eau Claire County

✤ Eau Claire Area School District

✤ Eau Claire Public Library

✤ University of Eau Claire

Current Members (2010)

CESA 10 Chippewa County CFSD CVTC

City of Chippewa Falls

City of Eau Claire Dove Healthcare Eau Claire School District

Eau Claire County Elk Mound School District

Indianhead Federated Library System

Luther Midelfort Mayo Health System

Osseo-Fairchild School District

Sacred Heart Hospital

St. Joseph’s UWEC

UW Health Department of Transportation

PDF Document:CINC_fiber_map_01_20_10.pdf

Benefits to CFSD

✤ The piece of mind and control of a secure, redundant network that can handle our needs currently and in the future.

✤ The sharing of applications and networks.

✤ Substantial savings.

Substantial Savings

Leased Leased FiberFiber CFSD FiberCFSD Fiber

2 Locations at $16,752 per year.

9 Locations at $1,500 per year

30 mb of bandwidth

1 Gig Currently, we could go to 10 Gig

Limitations with data and voice

No parameters

Cost of Ownership/Leasing

Five Years

30 mbps 100 mbps1 Gig – 10

GigEstimated cost of leasing fiber

for all buildings per

year:

$92,136 $123,552 N/A

5 year cost to lease $460,680 $617,760 N/A

Cost to build own fiber

(2003)-- -- $647,912

Cost to connect to Eau Claire (2008)

-- -- $125,000

Yearly maintenance

fees-- -- $1,500

Total after five years: $460,680 $617,760 $780,412

Cost of Ownership/Leasing

Looking out even further (estimates)

30 mbps 100 mbps1 Gig – 10

GigFive years

(2009) $460,680 $617,760 $780,412

Six years (2010) $552,816 $741,312 $782,412

Seven years (2011) $644,952 $864,864 $784,412

Eight years (2012) $737,088 $988,416 $786,912

Nine Years (2013) $829,224 $1,111,968 $789,412

Ten Years (2014) $921,360 $1,235,520

$792,412 (Savings already at

$443,108)

30 mbps will not be able to meet our

needs.

100 mbps will not be able to meet our

needs.

Capacity to meet our needs for 50 years. Longer?

Currently maxing out at 1-

2%

Recent news for CINC

✤ Recipient of a Federal Broadband Grant totaling 11.5 million. This was grant was applied for by CINC through UW Extension. (Press Release PDF)

✤ The grant will add more than 200 miles of fiber-optic cable and 1,300 square miles of wireless (WIMax) coverage for the Chippewa Valley.

✤ We are one of five communities around the state receiving grants which totaled 32 million for the state of Wisconsin.

What this grant means for CFSD?✤ Continued improvements for our existing infrastructure.

✤ Continued cost savings

✤ Use of a WiMax wireless signal within our educational community. Use to bridge the digital divide?

What have we learned?

✤ We have and will continue to have substantial savings as a school district.

✤ We are collaborating with other partners within our communities to share resources and costs. Relationships are built.

✤ Control and flexibility.

✤ A decision made by the board and district displayed great vision and foresight.

✤ Confidence to take this next step.

Questions?