EAGLE-Net History

2009:

Internet 2 Representatives from Washington, North Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin present at the CASE/CALET Pre-Conference in January sharing instructional applications and content currently being used by students and staff in their states.
CBOCES/EAGLE-Net begins assignments and announcements of the new IP addresses in February 2009 to CBOCES member and other EAGLE-Net connected schools and districts.
78 School Districts begin to work to connect to EAGLE-Net during the 2009 E-rate Cycle…some districts constrained (to connect immediately) by existing long term contracts will have to delay making EAGLE-Net connections without incentives to connect.

2008:

Eagle-Net begins developing carrier-connectivity relationships for long haul, local loop and aggregation connections to core network in Denver.
EAGLE-Net establishes a presence in two true carrier collocation facilities; one at Longmont Power and Communications’ (LPC) Point of Presence (PoP) in Longmont and the second at the TW Telecom (TWT) Primary Point of Presence (PoP) in Aurora.
EAGLE-Net obtains initial understanding and approval of fiber optic lease and tower lease terms and conditions from Platte River Power Authority to connect member districts with high bandwidth radio and fiber optic connections to the LPC PoP and EAGLE-Net services.
An Intergovernmental Agreement between EAGLE-Net and Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) is developed to have BVSD construct and dedicate a six-strand single-mode fiber optic connection from EAGLE-Net’s 830 S. Lincoln location to the University of Colorado Boulder to provide a final connection into UCAR’s PoP at the Front Range GigaPop at the Auraria Campus in Denver.
CBOCES attends Internet2 Conference representing Colorado K-12 Community - 1st time K-12 Colorado has been represented.
CBOCES (representing K-12) and UCAR meet with Internet2 Membership group and UCAR to begin SEGP discussions.
EAGLE-Net and IBM reach preliminary understanding for how EAGLE-Net can access operating network support and capital equipment via grants and other matching support funding.
EAGLE-Net and Cisco Systems enter into a grant preparation development relationship for 2009 K-12 public and private Grant Programs as part of Cisco’s corporate support program.
EAGLE-Net applies to the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) to be formally recognized and approved as an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and End User (with access to and control over assignment of IP address blocks neutral of other carriers) of its own Class B public IPv4 address blocks.
CBOCES prepares and implements a plan to revise its core network to segregate associate-member traffic for CBOCES district services (to be secure and protected) and enable Internet and intra-district traffic to be “on-net” as an aggregation entity to EAGLE-Net services. CBOCES uses new grant-based Cisco and 3Com equipment to enable the new configurations.
CBOCES works with UCAR on final plan for Internet and the I2/NLR connections at the FRGP, to be connected via central core Denver collocation facility, in order to prepare for the statewide distribution of educational assessments and testing applications.
EAGLE-Net fulfills Federal Request for Information relating to statewide broadband infrastructure needs and status of the rural broadband capability and network support.

2007:

Centennial Board of Cooperative Educational Services (CBOCES) establishes final connection to University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) network point of presence (PoP) for access to Front Range GigaPoP network connections to National Lambda Rail, Internet 2 and Commodity Internet.
CBOCES forms EAGLE-Net and UCAR recognizes EAGLE-Net to be the K-12 aggregator for enabling connector circuits to UCAR’s Point of Presence at the Front Range GigaPoP at the Auraria Campus.
EAGLE-Net’s cost-sharing collaboration is enabled for the first aggregation connection of CBOCES member districts to UPoP.