To: Board of County Commissioners
Through: David Bessen, Director, Information Technology
Prepared By:
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David Bessen, Director, Information Technology and Bryan Weimer, Director, Public Works and Development.
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Presenter: David Bessen, Director, Information Technology
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Subject:
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Arapahoe County Fiber Consortium
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Purpose and Request:
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This study session is request approval from the Board of County Commissioners for the formal creation of an Arapahoe County Fiber Consortium, a working group of County-based municipalities and other public agencies and the County that has the purpose of collaboratively planning fiber optic deployments for the transport of data and traffic data.
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Background and Discussion: For the past four years, the County IT and Public Works and Development Departments have had informal discussions with several municipalities (see attached list) within the County-as well as school and library districts, DRCOG, and the State-concerning the deployment of fiber optic networks in our geography. These discussions have centered around identifying existing fiber and its ownership and capacity, as well as what our plans were for deploying additional fiber for both data and traffic data/video transport. With the creation of the City of Centennial's fiber infrastructure additional possibilities were created for linking fiber networks. For example, with traffic data, there is a desire to be able to share data feeds and video streams across jurisdictions to better manage traffic flows on specific roadways that cross multiple jurisdictions. For data transport, there are opportunities for the County and other agencies to deploy fiber, perhaps connecting and 'riding' across the Centennial infrastructure, to connect various facilities. Some examples of this would be using the Centennial infrastructure and links to it to connect our data centers at Admin and at the Sheriff's Office or pro...
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