Project Name: UCSB Network Funding Shortfall – Intrabuilding Wiring Projects (IBW), Next Generation Backbone (NGB), and Wide Area Networking (WAN)

(12/6/01 Draft)

Project Sponsor: Office of Information Technology

Project Summary:

The Intrabuilding Wiring Projects (IBW), Next Generation Backbone (NGB), and Wide Area Networking (WAN) initiatives are part of the OIT’s operational mission. We have received a combination of permanent and one-time funds for these initiatives. The long-term strategy for funding these initiatives is to develop a Network Funding Model that will provide for predictable annual support, and the current plan is to implement the Network Funding Model by fiscal year 2003/2004. This project is really the funding gap between what we have and what is required to fully fund these initiatives until the Network Funding Model is implemented.

Unfortunately our funding situation for these initiatives is not clear. We have some permanent funds that are allocated to specific projects, and we have received 2000/2001 Internet 2 funds in the amount of $1,645,000. We hope to receive some 2001/2002 Internet 2 funds, but given the state’s budget situation, these funds are a target for being returned to the state. The 2001/2002 Internet 2 funds are the third and final year of a UCOP sponsored request for funding to support network initiatives. Since we are uncertain how much money will be available, we are going to present four possible scenarios with different funding gaps for these initiatives.

Scenario 1: We receive no 2001/2002 Internet 2 funds, so we use our 2000/2001 Internet 2 funds to fund the WAN and IBW costs and we provide no augmentation for NGB costs.

Scenario 2: We only receive enough 2001/2002 Internet 2 funds to cover our WAN costs, so we use all of our 2000/2001 Internet 2 funds to fund IBW costs and we provide no augmentation for NGB costs.

Scenario 3: We receive $800,000 in 2001/2002 Internet 2 funds.

Scenario 4: We receive $1,300,000 in 2001/2002 Internet 2 funds.

Table 1 indicates the funding gap for each of these initiatives in this fiscal year for each scenario.

Table 1: Fiscal Year 2001/2002 - Network Funding Gap Summary
		Scenario 1	Scenario 2	Scenario 3	Scenario 4
Total Internet 2 Funds		1,645,000	1,799,000	2,445,000	2,945,000
IBW
	Internet 2 Funds	1,491,000	1,645,000	1,897,000	2,397,000
	Funding Gap	1,795,644	1,649,344	1,409,944	934,944
NGB
	Internet 2 Funds	-	-	394,000	394,000
	Funding Gap	393,998	393,998	(2)	(2)
WAN
	Internet 2 Funds	154,000	154,000	154,000	154,000
	Funding Gap	(253)	(253)	(253)	(253)
Total Funding Gap		2,189,389	2,043,089	1,409,689	934,689

In addition to the possible funding gaps in this fiscal year, there are additional projected funding gaps for the WAN and NGB initiatives for the following two fiscal years that are indicated in Table 2. Note that we have not included an additional IBW gap based on a call for Year 3 projects.

Table 2: FY 02/03 - 03/04 Network Funding Gap Summary
		FY 02/03	FY 03/04	Total
NGB
	Funding Gap	390,057	222,122	612,178
WAN
	Funding Gap	1,030,817	168,795	1,199,612
Total Funding Gap		1,420,874	390,917	1,811,791

IBW:

Forty-seven projects were submitted for consideration for funding as Year 2 IBW projects. The total estimated cost for this initiative is $3,436,944.

Under Scenario 1, we plan to complete the following projects, and our contingency would be reduced from $81,050 to $30,614.

555 Marine Biotech *

503 Engineering II Workstation wiring only (Total of 14% of building)

CCS Trailer - Interior & Exterior Wiring

531 Music - Lotte Lehman Hall

IV Foot Patrol & Embarcadero Hall - Short Term Solution

375 Trans Services, 370, 437, 439, 584, 594, 972 FM - Exterior Wiring Only

465 Old Marine Lab* External connection & 10 Workstation Drops

494 CCS - 3 Classrooms

429 Psych Grad Facility * External Connection

534 Arts - 5 Subterminals

531 Music - Fiber horizontal

563 Ellison - Geography South Riser

569 Butler to 539 Electron Microscopy External Connection

546 Woodhouse Lab - 2nd Floor only - Risers only

563 Ellison - Geography 1629 A-H, P

563 Ellison - Geography 3rd floor north wing

560 Phelps - Geography room 3510

429 Psych Grad Facility * Internal Wiring

569 Butler Building/ 539 Electron Microscopy Facility/ 540 Green House *

546 Woodhouse Lab - 2nd Floor only - Internal Wiring

531 Music - 3 wings of offices

Under Scenario 2, we plan to complete the following additional projects, and our contingency would be reduced from $88,750 to $75,131.

580 Harder Stadium - Exterior Wiring

580 Harder Stadium - 14 studios & 2 offices

Under Scenario 3, we plan to complete the following additional projects:

503 Engineering II Workstation wiring only (Total of 29% of building)

Embarcadero Hall - Fiber to IV Theatre

Under Scenario 4, we plan to complete the following additional project:

503 Engineering II Workstation wiring only (Total of 80% of building)

The following projects are currently unfunded under all scenarios:

503 Engineering II Workstation wiring only (Total of 100% of building)	187,589
Embarcadero Hall - Fiber from IV Theatre to Embarcadero Hall	42,055
528 South Hall Grad Tower - some risers
528 South Hall - Math 6600 wing
408 Aquatic Biology Lab *
370 Facilities Management - Interior Wiring Only
381 Parking Services - Exterior Wiring Only
437 Facilities Management - Interior Wiring Only
439 Facilities Management - Interior Wiring Only
507 Central Stores - Exterior Wiring Only
584 Facilities Management - Interior Wiring Only
594 Facilities Management - Interior Wiring Only
972 Facilities Management - Interior Wiring Only
479 Old Gym - 2 rooms + Exterior Wiring
505 Events Center - 2 rooms + Exterior Wiring
522 Caesar Uyesaka Stadium - 3 rooms + Exterior Wiring
531 Music - Geiringer Hall
325 Interim Marine Lab II *
528 South Hall Grad Tower - 3 rooms
411 Psych Research Facility *
508 SW Aqua Fac
582 Aviary Trailer *
Total Unfunded Projects:	934,944

NGB:

The Next Generation Backbone Phase I upgrade that is currently underway expands our backbone network service and support and benefits 35 buildings. The benefits include the ability to increase the bandwidth to departments using cheaper interfaces, e.g., Fast Ethernet instead of FDDI; the opportunity to simplify the departmental networking infrastructure by utilizing the backbone’s centralized routing features instead of having department’s maintain their own routing equipment and expertise; more efficient use of campus backbone fiber by aggregating a building’s connections at a local building switch instead of at a distant core location. Phase II will bring these benefits to an additional 60 buildings as well as upgrade the speed of the connections to some of the initial buildings.

WAN:

This initiative involves the following support of campus networking: 1) the campus connection to CalREN-2, Abilene (Internet 2), and the commercial Internet, 2) Membership to UCAID, which is a condition for our Abilene connection, 3) the maintenance and augmentation of our existing backbone network cable plant, and 4) support for the existing campus backbone.

Our contract with the vendors providing service for CalREN-2 expires in November 2002. CENIC has developed a plan for an Optical Network Infrastructure (ONI) that will replace CalREN-2. The goal for the ONI is to take advantage of unused fiber (dark fiber) and cheap wavelengths (lambdas) to provide bandwidth of 2.5 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s for the same or less cost than we are currently paying for CalREN-2 bandwidth. In addition this new California backbone would provide an additional route between the northern and southern rings along the coast that would provide UCSB with the opportunity for an additional route and connection to this backbone. However there are investments that must be made in order to achieve that goal. These investments involve “Last Mile” construction to build a second route out of campus, new campus border equipment to connect to the new backbone, and shared costs for backbone equipment. The actual costs for these items are still being researched by UCOP & CENIC, and our share of these costs and how they would be spread out over multiple fiscal years is still unknown.

Our costs for commercial Internet access depend on the amount of traffic that we send through the ISP. UC contracts our ISP service through CENIC and in the next few months they will be switching to a new funding model. With the new model and additional technical capabilities being developed for the backbone, we would have the opportunity to limit our ISP bandwidth if we wanted to control our ISP costs.

Graphs of our current bandwidth usage are available at http://www.commserv.ucsb.edu/hpage/docs/network/netstats.htm .

How this Project Supports the Academic Mission:

IBW:

Campus control points submitted these projects to the OIT as being critical networking needs.

NGB:

The Next Generation Backbone makes it easier and cheaper for departments to connect to a high speed backbone.

WAN:

Connection to CalREN2, Internet2 and the commercial Internet are a requirement for a tier 1 research and educational institution.

Funding Source:

IBW:

The current funding for this initiative has been provided by three one-time allocations of “Internet 2 Funds”. The long-term funding solution is to implement a network funding model.

NGB:

The current funding for this initiative has been provided by permanent funds and hopefully some of the one-time “2001/2002 Internet 2 Funds”. The long-term funding solution is to implement a network funding model.

WAN:

For three years ending fiscal year 2000/2001, the Budget Office provided $309,667 to cover these costs. The Data Networking Surcharge covered ISP charges that were beyond what was budgeted. Residential Services contributes funds. This year these costs will be covered by some of the one-time Internet 2 Funds. The long-term funding solution is to implement a network funding model.

Costs:

IBW:

Table 3: Intrabuilding Wiring Projects
		FY 01/02
Expenses
	Project Manager	57,000
	Phase II Estimate Expense	17,725
	Phase I Estimated Overage	117,000
	Phase II - Projects	3,143,869
	Contingency	101,350
		3,436,944
Appropriations
	00/01Carry Forward	(130,000)
	Scenario 3 Internet 2 Funds:	(1,897,000)
		(2,027,000)
Funding Gap:		1,409,944

NGB:

Table 4: Next Generation Backbone Phase II
		FY 01/02	FY 02/03	FY 03/04
Expenses
	Equipment	363,570	345,451	345,451
	Support	97,480	159,631	205,671
	Site Preparation	80,829	82,733	80,000
	Fiber Construction	366,667	183,333	-
	FDDI	1,905	-	-
	15% Contingency (Site & Fiber)	67,124	39,910	12,000
		977,575	811,058	643,122
Appropriations
	Permanent Funds	(421,000)	(421,000)	(421,000)
	Carry Forwards	(162,577)	(2)	-
	Scenario 3 or 4 Internet 2 Funds:	(394,000)	-	-
		(977,577)	(421,002)	(421,000)
Funding Gap:		(2)	390,057	222,122

WAN:

Table 5: Wide Area Networking Expenses
		FY 01/02	FY 02/03	FY 03/04
Expenses
	CalREN-2 Charges from UCOP	140,000	23,333	-
	UCAID (Internet2) membership	25,000	25,000	25,000
	Abilene membership	20,000	20,000	20,000
	UCNet ISP Charges from UCOP	57,371	63,108	69,419
	Network Augmentation	67,296	67,296	67,296
	ONI - Bandwidth	-	140,000	140,000
	ONI - Last Mile	-	548,000	3,000
	ONI - Campus Equipment	-	300,000	-
	ONI - Backbone Equipment	-	?	-
		309,667	1,186,737	324,715
Appropriations
	ResNet contribution	(25,920)	(25,920)	(25,920)
	Permanent Funds	(130,000)	(130,000)	(130,000)
	Internet 2 Funds:	(154,000)	-	-
		(309,920)	(155,920)	(155,920)
Funding Gap:		(253)	1,030,817	168,795

At the end of November 2001, the CENIC board endorsed starting negotiations with an ONI vendor on the basis of ballpark figures for last mile and operational expenses. The total UC estimated one-time construction cost is $4.7M and there was a reference to UCSB’s individual cost of $100K (but we haven’t participated in any cost estimates for this.) Our cost for this construction could be between $100K and $470K. An additional cost was identified as annual maintenance of the fiber and our cost was indicated as $3K/year. And finally there was a cost of $75K for gigabit interfaces which we believe is related to Last Mile, not Campus Equipment. The ONI Last Mile cost estimate has been adjusted from $250K to $548K to reflect the most conservative estimates. These estimates will continue to be refined as we learn more about the architecture and equipment requirements.

Matching Opportunities:

We don’t know if UCOP will submit another request for networking funds for fiscal year 2002/2003, nor do we know if the economy would support such a request.

Staff Support Required:

No additional staff required for any of the initiatives.

Existing Resources to be Used:

IBW:

The existing Intrabuilding Wiring Project manager.

NGB:

The existing 2.5 FTE plus an additional 1.0 FTE currently being recruited.

WAN:

Part of an existing 1.0 FTE.

Project Timeline:

IBW:

These projects will occur during fiscal years 2001/2002 and 2002/2003.

NGB:

We plan to build out NGB Phase II over three years, fiscal year 2001/2002 through 2003/2004. Year 1 includes 2/3 of the fiber infrastructure construction, and 1/3 of the equipment purchases, Year 2 would complete the final 1/3 of the fiber infrastructure and include another 1/3 of equipment purchases and Year 3 would complete the final 1/3 of equipment purchases.

WAN:

These costs are annual on-going expenses.

Life Cycle of Result:

IBW:

Projects to re-wire full buildings are intended to last 10 years, all other projects will have a shorter life cycle.

NGB:

Our RFP required that 3 years support for this equipment, which ends December 2003.

WAN:

N/A.