Corporation for Public Broadcasting Civic Networking
Project
Davis Community Network -
A Civic Network as a Strategy for Building a "Smart" Community
Current status summary:
The partners involved in this project have inventoried and mapped the
existing network infrastructure and resources throughout the Yolo region,
and have identified methods of:
1)sharing and leveraging existing resources;
2)supplementing existing resources with additional infrastructure.
As of July, 1997, the University (UCD) and City of Davis have completed a
joint fiber project with other local partners, which connects DCN, the City
of Davis, and the University, and will ultimately connect the County of
Yolo systems in Woodland (utilizing County fiber already in the ground, and
identified by the infrastructure inventory). In lieu of a fiber run
between DCN and UCD, UCD has installed a T-1 line between the sites.
The University has also provided wide area networking consultants to
develop a detailed regional network design, and has provided, configured
and installed the routers and other equipment to implement the design.
Other project partners have provided other communication equipment to
complete the network. (See
Network
Map for the network design map and a list of equipment provided by the various partners).
UC Davis SunTREC lab has made available a Sun SPARCcenter 1000 for the
installation of GIS and document database web server applications. In
exchange, the project will pay for part of the SunTREC site administrator's
salary.
The focus of network infrastructure work from 8/97 through 1/98 will be to:
complete the activation of the fiber link for data communications between
the County of Yolo in Woodland, and the rest of the network;
develop network operations and control processes and procedures for a
network that is shared by a number of public organizations;
develop cooperative arrangements with additional organizations in the
county, including the Yolo County Superintendent of Schools office, and the
City of West Sacramento.
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