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    The City of Durham is partnering with Duke University to build a shared fiber optic network. The current broadband services provided by Spectrum are insufficient to meet the City's growing needs, and Spectrum cannot provide high-speed connections to many City facilities. A fiber optic network with Duke would provide reliable gigabit connections to all City and housing authority locations for $4.2 million, significantly less than upgrading services through Spectrum for $1.7 million annually. The City Manager is recommended to execute a 25-year, $4.2 million agreement with Duke to build the fiber optic network to address current and future broadband requirements.

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    The City of Durham is partnering with Duke University to build a shared fiber optic network. The current broadband services provided by Spectrum are insufficient to meet the City's growing needs, and Spectrum cannot provide high-speed connections to many City facilities. A fiber optic network with Duke would provide reliable gigabit connections to all City and housing authority locations for $4.2 million, significantly less than upgrading services through Spectrum for $1.7 million annually. The City Manager is recommended to execute a 25-year, $4.2 million agreement with Duke to build the fiber optic network to address current and future broadband requirements.

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    The City of Durham is partnering with Duke University to build a shared fiber optic network. The current broadband services provided by Spectrum are insufficient to meet the City's growing needs, and Spectrum cannot provide high-speed connections to many City facilities. A fiber optic network with Duke would provide reliable gigabit connections to all City and housing authority locations for $4.2 million, significantly less than upgrading services through Spectrum for $1.7 million annually. The City Manager is recommended to execute a 25-year, $4.2 million agreement with Duke to build the fiber optic network to address current and future broadband requirements.

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    Fiber Optic Network Partnership

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    The City of Durham is partnering with Duke University to build a shared fiber optic network. The current broadband services provided by Spectrum are insufficient to meet the City's growing needs, and Spectrum cannot provide high-speed connections to many City facilities. A fiber optic network with Duke would provide reliable gigabit connections to all City and housing authority locations for $4.2 million, significantly less than upgrading services through Spectrum for $1.7 million annually. The City Manager is recommended to execute a 25-year, $4.2 million agreement with Duke to build the fiber optic network to address current and future broadband requirements.

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    Date: April 25, 2018

    To: Thomas J. Bonfield, City Manager


    Through: Wanda Page, Deputy City Manager
    From: Kerry L. Goode, CIO/Director of Technology Solutions
    Subject: City/Duke Fiber Optic Network Partnership

    Executive Summary
    The City of Durham has partnered with Duke University to build and utilize a fiber optic
    network to provide high-speed, reliable, network connectivity to all City facilities and Durham
    Public Housing Authority locations. The current metropolitan area network will not provide the
    capabilities to meet our future broadband requirements without tremendous increase in cost.

    The shared fiber optic network connections are necessary to accommodate the City’s broadband
    growth requirements of gigabyte connections to all facilities for communications (phone and
    email); enterprise-wide systems such as MUNIS, OnBase, Internet, Fire Reporting, Police Body
    Cam System, various video driven systems, SaaS Systems, the Open Software Solutions Inc.
    (OSSI); and Parks and Recreation computer labs. The future smart city technologies will also
    require gigabyte connections to every facility and other locations throughout the City.

    The breakdown of the current connectivity provided to the City’s facilities is as follows:
     35 facilities connected with 5 MB broadband service (highest capacity available from
    Spectrum at these locations)
     5 facilities connected with 10 MB broadband service
     13 facilities connected with 100 MB broadband service
     9 facilities connected with 1 GB broadband service

    The facilities that are receiving 5 MB connections are not getting the broadband connectivity
    required to run certain applications. The annual cost for all of the aforementioned connectivity
    services provided to facilities from Spectrum is $359,664. If Spectrum was capable of providing
    1 GB connection to all facilities, the cost would increase to $1,730,880 annually for City
    facilities only.

    The cost to invest in the shared fiber optic network with Duke University is $4,266,200. The
    overall cost of the fiber network project is $6,112,690 (Please refer to the Financial Impact
    section for a breakdown of the project cost.)

    Recommendation
    The Administration recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute a
    Fiber Optical Network Infrastructure Agreement with Duke University in the amount of
    $4,266,200 for the term of 25 years to provide current and future broadband requirements to the

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    City’s business units.

    It is recommended that the City Council adopt an ordinance amending the General Capital
    Improvements Project Ordinance, Fiscal Year 2017-18, as amended, the same being Ordinance
    #15131, for the purpose of adding the City/Duke Fiber project in the amount of $6,112,690.

    Background
    During the last several years, the City has been exploring partnerships with various organizations
    regarding building a fiber optic network. Duke University approached the City with the
    opportunity to partner in building a fiber network. The City currently owns a very limited
    amount of fiber infrastructure. The City is also utilizing a small portion of the County’s
    backbone fiber because the County’s fiber is only located in the downtown area and only a few
    City facilities can be connected to it. Currently City Hall is the only facility connected to
    County’s fiber. There are plans to connect the new Police Headquarters utilizing the County fiber
    network for redundancy purposes.

    Issues/Analysis
    The current broadband services provided to the City by Spectrum are not currently meeting the
    needs of the City. Based on a comparative analysis, the City will obtain more broadband value
    at a much reduced cost by partnering with Duke University, than to purchase the required
    broadband from a service provider. In addition, Spectrum has informed the City that they are not
    going to provide high speed broadband service to many of the City facilities due to the location.

    Alternatives
    The City can try to find a service provider that will give the City the required service for each
    location. However the cost will be much greater than the cost to partner with Duke University.
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    Financial Impact
    The estimated one time cost is $4,266,200 for the Fiber Optical Agreement with Duke
    University. The other associated cost for this project is as follows:

    One Time Fiber Backbone Hardware Cost $ 611,926


    One Time Professional Service Cost-- $ 70,000
    Backbone Hardware Installation
    Project Management $ 202,897
    One Time Cost for Hardware for City Facilities $ 146,544
    Kimley-Horn and Associates Permit and
    Design Fee Agenda # 12526 $ 650,000
    One Time Professional Service Cost – City $ 70,762
    Facilities Hardware Installation
    First Year Maintenance Cost $ 94,361
    One Time Network Construction Cost $4,266,200

    The total cost of the fiber network project is $6,112,690.

    EBOP Summary

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    The Equal Opportunity/Equity Department reviewed the agreement.

    EBOP Requirements
    There were no EBOPs to provide this service.

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