WAN/Connectivity Sample Clauses
WAN/Connectivity. APU connects to Genesys data center that hosts PureConnect via a private broadband connection through a MPLS router at APU’s site in Anaheim. APU maintains two fiber-based broadband connections to the Internet with different Internet Service Providers. The current speed of these connections is 500 Mbps download and upload (and burstable to 1 Gbps). The system architecture uses a hybrid network environment to support its Polycom VoIP phone connections. Some user VoIP phones (namely Customer Service division) are connected to a dedicated internal network for voice traffic, separate from the general City data network. Other user VoIP phones are connected to the general City network that supports both voice and other computing traffic.
WAN/Connectivity. The network may divided into logical "zones" of service: Core (backbone), Distribution (from a city), Municipal Areas Networks (MAN), Edge or Access (Customer Premise or building) and Security (DMZ, IPS/IDS, QoS, remote access). Security elements cross all zones. Enterprise and agency phone, radio, data, and video services run over the network. The overall strategy has been to consolidate, simplify and standardize. Dedicated circuits (copper, fiber, microwave or other), are provided through ETS to State agencies for their data, video, radio and voice traffic. This includes a variety of broadband access (dial-up, cable modem, DSL, and various wireless technologies, i.e. 802.x, cell and microwave), virtual private network or other network services contracted for, partnered with or provided by the State, including Internet access and network connections to State computers. The ETS WAN consists of over a thousand circuits of which over 600 are leased. Circuit capacities range from a few rural 56kbps to rarer gbps speeds. The State is committed to reducing costs and increasing flexibility by implementing new technologies. Over the last few years, that has been Ethernet services where possible. Leased lines are provided primarily by GCI, ACS, AT&T, local exchange carriers and the SATS network. The State continues to seek improvements for the 22,000 users served by the State WAN. A focus area is the network transport to 13 satellite-served communities, primarily in the north- and west-coast areas of Alaska. State agencies and ETS are researching options for broadband, acceleration, wireless, protocols (SIP, multicast) and other options throughout the network. Continual improvement and simplification of technologies and processes along with standardization of equipment, software and configurations have allowed the State and partners to reduce the numbers and types of equipment supported, reduced the number, impact and duration of outages and reduced the management overhead of WAN maintenance. Stabilization of the WAN can be attributed to the efforts of vendors, partners and staff working together or through periodic initiatives, most notably the network security initiative in 2005/6 and the VOIP phone project completed in 2008/9. A decreasing number of 1330 Cisco routers and switches are connected within each city as a Municipal Area Network (MAN), a single distribution router from each city routes to a major network Core in Fairbanks, Juneau or Anchorage. ETS gen...