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2,240+ $8 $47+ 300+ 700+ miles million million campuses schools of high-speed savings to Ohio savings through of college, in public network backbone education virtualization university & K–12 sector program branch partners OARnet: Delivering Ohio’s technology-based solutions

Community-driven and collaboratively focused, upstream internet providers and connectivity to public the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) internet exchange points to optimize internet costs delivers technology-based solutions to Ohio’s while maintaining the highest standard of reliability. education, health care, public broadcasting IntraOhio Content Subscription and government organizations affordably and efficiently. OARnet’s communities participate As part of the new fee structure in FY2017, OARnet in its shared services programs because of the will debut a new shared subscription service for benefits and value-added services they receive. IntraOhio, offering streaming services at $1 per Mb, resulting in a savings between 50 to 84 percent per As a founding member of the Ohio Technology Mb from the previous year. This service will move Consortium, a division of the Ohio Department content items off Internet1, providing customers of Higher Education, OARnet provides Ohioans with more bandwidth for every dollar spent and access to a comprehensive technology positioning our clients to be better able to meet the infrastructure unmatched in any other state. ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. OARnet Our Driving Principles will work with each institution to determine the correct IntraOhio content subscription needed. • Increase access to affordable broadband service. • Reduce technology costs via aggregate purchasing. Internet2 • Maximize shared-service opportunities. OARnet is Ohio’s Internet2 Connector, fostering collaboration possibilities for researchers among OARnet Services institutions including seeking funding sources for OARnet delivers high-speed solutions throughout research, such as the National Science Foundation. Ohio by way of its 100-gigabit-per-second backbone. Aggregate purchase of Internet2 reduces the Transport service connects eligible members to cost of connector fees, eliminating the need for other OARnet sites, resources offered by providers, schools to purchase individual connections. The such as the Ohio Supercomputer Center and Internet2 backbone is transitioning to MPLS and OhioLINK, as well as services, such as Voice-over-IP, moving away from Openflow to support domain business continuity and high-speed data transfers. science. OARnet has two 100 Gbps connections, one in Cleveland and one in Cincinnati. OARnet strives to provide exceptional service and develop shared programs that reduce the cost Virtualization of technology through aggregate purchasing. Virtualization allows IT departments to create a Value-added services include 24/7 support, virtual environment at the workstation, server Domain Name System (DNS), emergency web or data-center level. Virtualization technology hosting and Quality of Service prioritization. can reduce the number of physical servers or Internet computers needed while maintaining performance levels. OARnet’s aggregate purchase of VMware OARnet’s new fee structure for OARnet members in results in license cost reduction of 25 percent and fiscal year 2017 will reduce internet rates and align maintenance reduction of 35 percent. An expansion user tiers with current usage and demand, with the of VMware products now includes Airwatch and addition of a 10-gigabit tier. OARnet aggregates many vCloud Air for on-demand storage and servers.

per gigabit cost $4/Mb in FY2017

Price & Provisioning

75 Gb/second Economies of scale have allowed per gigabit cost in FY2017 OARnet’s internet pricing to decrease $4/Mb total purchased 98.7 percent since 2002, while in FY2017 bandwidth aggregated subscriptions have increased more than 18,735 percent over the same period.

75 Gb/second in FY2017 total purchased bandwidth NG911 Next Generation 911 takes emergency response operations from analog to digital, providing faster, more reliable services when communities need it most. OARnet, under the auspices of the Ohio 911 Program Office within the Department of Administrative Services, is expanding a two-phase pilot program trial to bring Ohio counties on NG911 to improve emergency communications and mapping. “I think the relationship that we have with the Phase one is pre-ESInet and is currently underway. personnel at OARnet is critically important. I Gateway Service feel like they’re a part of our team.” OARnet recently added a client portal protected by two-factor authentication, enabling clients to self- — Terry Herman, Chief Information Officer, Zane State College administer their contacts and provide easy access to statistics on their use of OARnet services. OARnet will use the self-administered contacts to keep a client’s organization up to date with important maintenance and outage communications. OARnet & DREN | Peering OARnet & Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) | Peering Security - DDoS OARnet offers proactive DDoS static filters and policies upon request from clients as well as 6 real-time Border Gateway Protocol-signaled black 2 1 hole route service to mitigate these attacks. 7 Data Center Services 8 9 OARnet supports an array of co-location options, 3 designed to support the recommendations of the 5 4 Ohio Task Force on Affordability & Efficiency in Higher Education, as well as to meet the needs Department of Defense Supercomputing Center OARnet PoP OARnet Backbone Network of our clients for geographical diversity. OARnet Aﬃliated Resource Center Peering Point Dayton, OH provides cost-effective connections back to 1 US Air Force Research Laboratory Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 6 Air Force Research Laboratory/Information Directorate Rome, NY OARnet2 US Army Research & Laboratory NASA Aberdeen | ProvingPeering Ground, MD 7 Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC OARnet & NASA | Peering3 US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Vicksburg, MS 8 Space & Missile Defense Command Huntsville, AL organizations via OARnet’s high-speed network. 4 Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center Stennis Space Center, MS 9 Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Paciﬁc San Diego, CA Other options of co-location, depending on the 5 Maui High Performance Computing Center Kihei, Maui, HI site, may include: space, cabinets and power. Return on Investment

5 6 Through OARnet’s flagship shared service, the 7 1 8 network and its expansion into other shared services, 9 2 3 OARnet promotes community and economic 10 development by expanding access to affordable technology. Consider the following ROIs: 11 4 12 • $514,069

total dollar savings for all clients in FY2015 NASA Sites NASA Trusted Internet Connection OARnet Peering Point Toledo, Ohio OARnet PoP OARnet Backbone Network

1 Ames Research Center Moﬀett Field, California 7 Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Island, Virginia • $240,000 NASA Glenn2 Dryden Research Flight Research Center Edwards, Center California and 8Wright-Patterson NASA Headquarters Washington, District of Columbia Air Force 3 JET Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California 9 Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia Base/Defense4 Johnson and Space Center Research Houston, Texas Engineering10 Marshall Space FlightNetwork Center Huntsville, Alabama (DREN) have savings for K–12 schools in the past year 5 Glenn Research Center Cleveland, Ohio 11 Stennis Space Center Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 10 Gig connections6 Goddard Space Flight Center to Greenbelt,the Maryland OARnet backbone.12 Kennedy Space Center KennedyThese Space Center, Florida connections • 30 percent provide Ohio researchers direct access to NASA and DREN sites increase in bandwidth across the state of Ohio across the United States and facilitate research collaborations.

oar.net 26 OARnet 100 Gigabit/second network K–12 Schools 6 Large Urbans backbone with connected partners 19 Information Technology Centers 91 Higher Education + 143 Remote Sites 65 Healthcare Facilities 9 Institutions 56 Sites

6 Research Facilities

15 Broadcast Stations Broadcast Educational Media Commission (BEMC) 35 Local Entities Key (Cities, Counties, Libraries,

Local County Emergency State Departments, Public Entities) K12 Broadcast Higher Ed Medical & Research 543 State of Ohio Agency Sites

Paul Schopis Denis Walsh Mark Fullmer Interim Executive Director & Chief Relationship Officer Network Architect Chief Technology Officer (614) 292-9037 | [email protected] (614) 292-8165 | [email protected] (614) 292-1956 | [email protected] Letha Butcher Ann Zimmerman Gary Goettel Senior Business Relationship Manager Senior Business Relationship Manager Network Operations Manager for Government & K–12 for Higher Education (614) 247-2563 | [email protected] (614) 292-9545 | [email protected] (614) 292-9022 | [email protected]

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