Pinal County Education Service Agency
40 K-20 Members Strong
320 Fiber Miles
1.7M feet of fiber constructed
Core Project: Initial rollout
Zayo Group has completed it’s 300+ mile fiber network in Pinal County.
This network is built to service the Pinal County K-20 community, offering dedicated single subscriber connectivity from 1G-100G+. Significant fiber capacity was designed to accommodate additional K-12 entities. In many cases we’ve built fiber right next to schools during the initial construction to the 32 consortia member locations.
We would love to talk to you more about the fiber assets we have installed in your community and how you can leverage them!
Community Impact
Municipal Status
The large tracts of available land and competitive power pricing make areas like Pinal County desirable for this large scale type of investment if fiber connectivity is available.
Economic Development
- Data Centers: The top webscale companies require large geodiverse data centers to deliver services to users. Large tracts of available land and competitive power pricing make areas like Pinal County desirable for this large scale type of investment if fiber connectivity is available.
- Autonomous Vehicles Testing: Similar to data centers, companies testing autonomous vehicles require robust connectivity both from a fiber and wireless perspective. Pinal County is a prime area for autonomous vehicle companies to invest because of available land, fiber infrastructure, and business friendly environment.
- Large Enterprise: Whether a company in retail, manufacturing, construction or other verticals, large enterprises have significant IT infrastructure in the major data center hubs (Bay Area, NYC, Atlanta, Seattle) and the recently install network provides seamless connectivity back to those locations making Pinal County an obvious choice for operations expansion.
Community Anchors
City, Local Government, Non-Profit
- Fire district
- Local health clinic
- Community Center
- Post office
- Justice Department
Central Arizona College
- 8 college locations
- Single subscriber network
- 10G WAN connectivity form sites back to a 100G WAN core (expandable to 400G+)
- Access to 100G IP core
- Enablements available for private access leading to public clouds (Google/Azure/AWS)
- Enhanced collaboration between local college and K-12
- New education opportunities for K-12 students participating in community college courses
- DR options partnering with the E-rate consortium and the Pinal County’s data center in Florence
Future Infastructure Initiatives
- County & municipal locations
- Private dedicated wireless network (Private LTE)
- Partnerships with local ISPs to enhance performance and resiliency
- Additional expansion to elementary, middle, and high schools not current served
Digital Equity
- Newly construction fiber and 10G+ capable WAN electronics sets the stage for CBRS/Private Dedicated Wireless solutions for rural environments
- Pinal County ESA being the single subscriber on this network eliminates common bandwidth choke points allowing for rural environments to get the same benefits as metro districts
- Community partnerships between College and K-12 allow for in field training on state of the art 5G capable equipment (CBRS) while bringing down support costs
Your network is complete, now what?
Future proof your education system facilities phone systems with SIP and Hosted VoIP. Switching your existing services from traditional PRI to SIP will not only yield immediate cost savings, but it will be supported for many years down the road, unlike legacy systems based on copper.
- Migrate services from traditional PRI to SIP
- Waning support for traditional TDM (copper) services
- Immediate cost savings measure
- Multiple geo-diverse SIP stacks for improved up-time
CUSTOM K-12 PRODUCT SOLUTIONS
Zayo is an E-Rate, Tier-1 provider focusing on leveraging all funding structures to build schools cost-effective, scalable networks.
- Zayo has been an active participant in E-Rate for the last 12 years and has become an established leader in dedicated fiber infrastructure and other Category 1 services.
- Zayo has provided E-Rate funded services in 23 different states, successfully navigating unique procurement criteria to deliver network on time and USAC compliant.
- Zayo has been awarded more USAC Special Construction dollars than any other carrier participating in E-Rate with over $200M application requests.
Secure IP
IP
Leverage our global IP backbone & deep metro footprint to deliver optimal connectivity. It's all fully dedicated and delivered directly over a metro circuit to our Tier-1 IP backbone.
DDoS Mitigation
Zayo DDoS Protection is a network-based cloud solution. Advanced detection and mitigation technology minimizes the impact of DDoS attacks by re-routing all traffic to one or more scrubbing centers. Only clean traffic is delivered.
Security
A bundled DIA and DDoS protection solution to provide the lowest impact to your network. Monitoring continuous traffic, analyzing, redirecting, and protecting to restoring a fast and direct path to mitigate.
Fiber Infrastructure Solutions
PDN
A fully managed private network that has custom built network designs and dedicated fiber. Giving schools high speed connectivity solutions such as improved latency, a dedicated platform and many encryption options.
Dark Fiber
Providing dedicated fiber pairs between two or more locations allowing our customers to use their optronics to light the fibers, enabling a custom network with flexibility, security and scale.
Cloudlink Solutions
Cloudlink provides direct network connectivity to over 50 cloud providers and over 150 cloud on-ramps globally. We utilize our industry-leading fiber communications infrastructure across Dark Fiber, Wavelengths, Ethernet, and IP Solutions.
Be a good neighbor, let us know who needs our help
Nearby government, education, and medical facilities can all benefit from a strong fiber infrastructure; to provide fast and secure Internet to your communities. Help us impact your region by telling your neighbor about our services.
E-Rate Awareness & Overview
Our team has more than 12 years of experience in delivering network solutions in the E-Rate program. Because of our extensive knowledge, our team designs and deploys solutions that are eligible for full program discounts and compliant to E-Rate rules.
Many school entities in Washington, such as K20 and Highline Public Schools, have selected Zayo’s wide range of E-Rate solutions for dark fiber and lit fiber-based connectivity to provide high-speed connectivity.
High-speed internet is vital for digital curricula, which includes online educational resources and streaming media. Zayo works closely with school districts across the nation to deliver high-quality, fiber-based connectivity to replace or upgrade outdated technology.
“Zayo can provide school districts a full scope of solutions from dark fiber to traditional lit services,” said Jack Waters, president of Zayo Networks and COO. “Serving these schools is making a difference for thousands of students and teachers across the country.” Read more here.
K-12 & PUBLIC SECTOR TEAM
We have decades of experience delivering secure, scalable, customized technology solutions for our customers. Managing federal funding, programs, compliance, and technology sets our team apart from competitors and enables us to deploy fiber internet infrastructure and cloud solutions in support of our customer’s efforts to improve outcomes for students, educators, and healthcare providers.
Colin Campbell Territory Manager. Colin manages government and education sales initiatives for the Western United States. Colin has 8 years of experience working with government, education, and medical institutions helping to sell, design, and account manage complex fiber WAN and IP solutions.
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