Boulder Valley School District Educational Facilities Master Plan

Boulder Valley School DistrictEducational Facilities Master PlanExisting InfrastructureThe figure below provides a high-level context of the of the BVSD infrastructure.WAN InfrastructureThe BVSD WAN is a collection of 61 T1 lines with a speed of 1.5 Mbps running from the schoolsite to the Qwest cloud, aggregated back over the 20 Mb ATM link. The WAN utilizes acombination of Qwest frame-relay, ATM, and point-to-point T1’s. The basic concept is 20 Mb/sATM from the Ed Center to the Qwest cloud. The Ed Center serves as the hub of the networkwith each school being a spoke off the main hub. The five major high schools each have twodata T1s (Monarch, Fairview, Centaurus, Boulder, and Broomfield). The mountain schoolsutilize point-to-point service back to the Ed Center (Nederland Elementary and Middle/Senior,Jamestown, Gold Hill). The rest of the schools have single F/R T1’s to the Qwest cloud. Theinternet link is a dedicated 10 Mb/s ATM link to the Front Range Gigapop. It runs at more than95% of capacity nearly 24x7.Capital Improvement Planning Committee May 2006 Page 88