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MUNICIPAL FTTP DEPLOYMENT SNAPSHOT Burbank is home to a cluster of media and entertainment companies with specialized broadband requirements. ONE Burbank helps retain and grow that cluster. Services ofered: • Dedicated Internet Access – 20 Mbps to 1 Gbps symmetrical • Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) – Layer 2 any-to-any Ethernet connectivity @ 1 Gbps • Wave Lambda Service – point-topoint connectivity @ 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps for bandwidth-intensive or latency-sensitive applications • Communication Transport Service – single-channel, unidirectional, point-to-point transport for highquality video using SD-SDI, ASI and HD-SDI standards. Number of subscribers for each service: Dark fber leases – 28 Direct Internet Access – 35 Wave Lambda Service – 4 Communication Transport Service – 3 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IMPACT Companies from Beverly Hills, Santa Clarita and Glendale, Calif., have all relocated to Burbank specifcally because of the ONE Burbank fber network and to conduct business with others already on-net. DEPLOYMENT DETAILS Design, construction, installation and integration: All handled in-house by Burbank Water and Power staf Aerial or underground? Both Method for underground installation: Cable is installed in communications conduit included in the electrical system duct packages. Method for connecting fber: Preterminated at patch panels using fusion splicing, splice-on connectors 28 and feld fusion splicing using Tyco splice cases Splicing equipment: Fujikura FSM60 fusion splicer (2), Fujikura 40 fusion splicer (1). Splicing is done in a Coachcraft Technologies fber splicing trailer. OPERATING EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE Central ofce electronics: Cisco and MRV routers and switches Customer-premises equipment: Cisco 3400 and MRV EM316 Fiber cables: Corning and Siecor Fiber distribution cabinets: Chatsworth Products Geographic Information System: Schneider Electric – Fiber Manager Testing equipment: Noyes light meters, EXFO OTDR NETWORK OPERATION Central ofce personnel: 4 OSP personnel: 5 Customer service representatives: 2 SUCCESS STORIES City Facilities – "Connected at the Speed of Light": Burbank Water and Power (BWP) is maximizing unused assets in its fber network to provide ultra-high-speed connectivity to all Burbank city facilities. BWP began installing fber optic cables in 1986, with the frst fber link connecting the BWP campus to the city's Information Technology Department in City Hall. In July 1998, the Central Library fber connection was completed in anticipation of a computer grant and rollout in 2000. Te Buena Vista Library followed in October 2002 and | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | www.broadbandcommunities.com Northwest Library in April 2004. Tese fber connections provide high-speed Internet access to 130 public computer workstations, with the capability of easily handling the demand for bandwidth. BWP's most signifcant challenge of extending fber infrastructure to remote facilities was solved with some creative planning. ONE Burbank's engineering staf became aware of BWP's Water Division's multiyear project to install recycled water lines throughout the city. Following a joint meeting, an agreement was reached to install a fber conduit during the excavation work. Tis new infrastructure was instrumental in extending fber connectivity to remote city facilities as well as to schools. Burbank Unifed School District: At its July 10, 2012, meeting, the Burbank City Council authorized the general manager of Burbank Water and Power to extend fber optic network connectivity to the Burbank Unifed School District (BUSD). With the expansion of the Ethernet Switched Services Network (ESSN) and the completion of several capital improvement projects, which increased fber optic and communications resources, BWP was able to ofer an afordable and signifcant bandwidth solution to the BUSD. Te BUSD was operating on a 155 Mbps connection shared among all the schools. Tis limited bandwidth connection rapidly overloaded when several schools attempted to utilize the connection simultaneously. With BWP's solution, the new 1 Gbps BUSD broadband connection represents a 700 percent increase in bandwidth. During the last quarter of 2012, ONE Burbank staf extended fber infrastructure to connect the BUSD Service Center to One Wilshire in downtown Los Angeles and connected both Burbank and Burroughs High Schools back to the BUSD Service Center. Recently, ONE Burbank engineering staf met with BUSD staf to visit and review connecting the remaining schools in the order BUSD felt would most beneft the district. v | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2013