<p> JAY INSLEE MICHAEL COCKRILL Governor Director & State Chief Information Officer</p><p>STATE OF WASHINGTON</p><p>“the consolidated technology services agency” RCW 43.105.006 WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS</p><p>1500 Jefferson Street SE  Olympia, Washington 98504-1501  (360) 407-8700</p><p>DATE: October 13, 2016</p><p>TO: All Secondary Ethernet Vendors</p><p>FROM: Susan Steele, RFQ Coordinator</p><p>SUBJECT: Amendment #7 to T17-RFQ-009</p><p>This amendment is to update requirements found in Section 5 of the RFQ. Deleted text appears struck through in black font, while added text is underlined in red font. </p><p>1. The following language has been added to the mandatory requirements as listed below:</p><p>If the Providers architecture is a wavelength solution with a physical Fiber handoff, that CTS will run Ethernet Services over, this requirement does not apply.</p><p>Section 5.5 (M) Frame Delay (Latency) Section 5.6 (M) Frame Loss Ration and Availability (Packetloss) Section 5.7 (M) Inter-Frame Delay Variation (Jitter) Section 5.8 (M) Protocols Section 5.13 (M) Link Aggregation Section 5.15 (M) Ethernet Standards Section 5.16 (M) VLAN Section 5.17 (M) BPDUS Section 5.18 (M) Spanning Tree Protocols Section 5.19 (M) VLAN Tagging/Trunking Section 5.20 (M) Marking of Traffic Section 5.21 (M) Class of Service/Quality of Service</p><p>State of Washington Amendment #7 Security Gateway Appliances Consolidated Technology Services Page 1 T17-RFQ-009</p><p>A12-RFP-016 State of Washington Amendment #7 Security Gateway Appliances Consolidated Technology Services Page 2 T17-RFQ-009</p><p>A12-RFP-016</p>