Tech Specs

  • Completely optical private network

  • All locations are DWDM nodes on the network - equipment is the same at each site

  • Four diversely routed DWDM core rings

  • All rings terminate at Infomart in Dallas - One of largest interconnection hubs in the US

  • Fiber, equipment, and network operational support all delivered by Zayo, a Tier 1 fiber optic provider

  • 2nd-most-peered network in North America

  • Design spans over 2000 fiber route miles

  • Architecture provides resiliency in case of failures in the network (e.g., fiber cut) and allows traffic to be protected around the rings in under 50ms switching times

  • 100 Gigs of Internet Access - Scalable to 500 Gigs

  • Potential direct connections to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, State testing environment

  • High-speed connections to other ESC and statewide networks

  • Scalable to long range goals of 1 Meg per student

  • DDOS scrubbing capability included

Designed for Scalability

  • Each location will have 10G ports, non-throttled bandwidth

  • Districts can add bandwidth beyond 10G with ease

  • DWDM rings operate at 100 Gbps - capable of over 1 Tbps

  • Rings upgraded simply by adding another wavelength

  • Since Fiber 10 will be a single-subscriber, private network, the consortium will bypass the “Carrier Cloud”, it will not be affected by aggregated network traffic of other customers

  • Free from outside interference, interception or interruption - the most reliable and secure network possible

  • Bandwidth availability far exceeds Region 10’s 1Mbps per student target and any foreseeable FCC requirements