In California, the educational institutions formed an organization called The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) http://www.cenic.org/. CENIC designed, built and operates a fiber network that connects to public and private K-20 institutions. They claim that the cost to connect to their network is 50% of comparable commercial networks.
Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Kevin Owen > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:17 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] State Education Networks? > > The State I provide service in (Idaho) is in the process of building a > Statewide Educational Network. I am interested in hearing from any of > you are providing service in a State that has built a State Educational > Network and if so, are local providers used to provide any of the last > miles services to the schools? > > Idaho started by saying they would work with the local providers, > however, now they have changed their tune and local providers are not > given the opportunity to even bid on the service. > > Qwest is charging at least 3 - 5 times what any of the other local > ISP's could or would charge for the same or more bandwidth. We are > simply told we are not able to provide the service due to technical > reasons, however, the State thus far has not defined what those > technical reasons are. The difference in cost per year is in the > millions. > > Our State IT group is also saying this is how it is done in other > states to provide a quality and cost effective network. > > So does anybody provide any last mile services to any Statewide > educational network? > > Thanks, > > Kevin > First Step Internet, LLC > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
