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HomeMy WebLinkAboutStaff Report 133-07City of Palo Alto City Manager’s Report TO: FROM: HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL CITY MANAGER DEPARTMENT:ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DATE:FEBRUARY 12, 2007 CMR: 133:07 SUBJECT:APPROVAL OF THE WIRELESS SILICON VALLEY TRIAL AGREEMENT WITH SILICON VALLEY METRO CONNECT RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends that Council authorize the City Manager or his designee to approve the City’s participation in the Wireless Silicon Valley Trial with Silicon Valley Metro Connect. BACKGROUND In April 2005, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network kicked-off the Wireless Silicon Valley initiative. The City of Palo Alto has been an active participant and supporter of the project. Since its inception, an organization of more than 40 agencies and municipalities has been formed, a set of criteria for the project has been created, and an RFP was developed and issued. RFP responses were evaluated and a primary vendor and a secondary vendor were selected. The group is currently in negotiations to develop a model agreement for Wireless Silicon Valley members to take before their respective boards or councils. The primary scope of the project is to provide outdoor wireless internet connectivity to over 1500 square miles of the greater Silicon Valley. Where available, indoor access will be accomplished by means of customer provided equipment (CPE). The cost of this equipment is expected to be less than $100. The group also expects the network to support a single sign-on while the user remains in the Wireless Silicon Valley area as well as mobile capability. DISCUSSION The City of Palo Alto has been selected as a proof of concept city by the Metro Connect consortium composed of IBM, Cisco, Azulstar and SeaKay. The intent is to construct a network across a one-square mile area in Palo Alto that could be used to demonstrate and evaluate the ability to provide coverage, administration and maintenance in a real-world setting. A proposed concept area has been identified and is roughly bounded by Hamilton Avenue, Middlefield Road, Churchill Street and E1 Camino Real. The concept trial will be closed and not accessible to the general public. Such control is necessary due to the dynamic nature of the trial. The users of the system during this concept phase will be Metro Connect and selected City of Palo Alto users. The trial is scheduled to run CMR:133:07 Page 1 of 2 for 120 days. During this period, Metro Connect has agreed to comply with all existing municipal requirements. RESOURCE IMPACT Minimal staff support for the project will be required from the Information Technology Division. This support is expected to be project management and process control. Utilities Electric Engineering and Operations will be consulted regarding the physical installation of the Wi-Fi components in the concept area. Expenses and fees associated with the installation of equipment on street lights will be billed to Metro Connect. POLICY IMPLICATIONS Participation in this project does not represent any change to existing City policies. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW Approval of participation in this project does not constitute a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); therefore, no environmental assessment is required. PREPARED BY: GLENN E. LOO Chief Information Officer APPROVED BY: ~--~TS __ 7e~, adm~inistrative Services CITY MANAGER APPROVAL: EMILY HARRISON Assistant City Manager ATTACHMENTS Attachment 1: Metro Connect Trial Proposal Attachment 2: Map of the Trial Area Attachment 3: List of the Wireless Silicon Valley participants CMR: 133:07 Page 2 of 2 ATTACHMENT 1 1051 Jackso~ I GrandHavCa,MI I 877-Azulstar February 7, 2007 Frank Benest City Manager City of Palo Alto 250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Dear Mr. Benest, Silicon Valley Metro Connect ("SVMC"), a consortium that includes IBM, Cisco, Azulstar and SeaKay, proposes to build an initial Proof of Concept ("POC") network that will cover an area of approximately ! square mile in Paio Alto. The goal of this POC network is to: 1. Ratify and finalize network design; 2. Enable the signing of enhanced service, anchor tenant, and premium services contracts; and 3.Provide a sufficient level of understanding for the parties involved to make additional commitments required for the success of the project. The POC network will be in place for a maximum of t20 days. Overview In order to commence the implementation of a Wireless Broadband Network ("WBN") across the 40-city region of Wireless Silicon Valley ("WSV"), SVMC proposes the creation of two initial POC networks. These POC systems are being offered for the convenience of the WSV program and for the opportunity afforded to SAMCAT and Joint Venture member partner entity cities to actively participate in the final design and architect process of the WSV network, and to provide for wireless scalable applications and services in the community. All will be offered as additional premium services or enhanced services agreements. The city, county and entity levels of participation in the project will determine the hardware and software required for the final system build-out for each entity city and county. As a concept system, the POC network will enable SVMC to plan the final design and establish the level on which the various cities, counties and entities will subscribe to the offerings of the SVMC Team. 1051 Jackson I Grand Haven, MI I l~77-Azu|star The WSV WBN being offered is distinctly different from a Wi-Fi network for typical 802.11 alblg wireless systems. The WSV WBN will not be only for Internet access and limited features but it will also offer wireless broadband for a multitude of high-end applications, including, but not limited to, wireless Automated Meter Reading ("AMR"), parking monitoring, wireless control of sensors and actuators, wireless SCADA systems that will control pumps and devices, Voice Over Internet Protocol telephone service ("VolP") and intelligent traffic control. POC Goals As Applied The POC network will demonstrate: o Wireless network coverage across a variety of settings typical to the region, including urban, residential, and suburban/rural. Service Level Agreements ("SLAs") including network throughput, latency, in- vehicle mobility and Quality of Service ("QoS"). Throughput testing will be shown on the Intranet as well as tO the lnternet. Wireless network security, VLANs and interconnection with existing City or corporate systems. ¯Functionality of the Network Operations Center ("NOC"), including billing,¯authentication, child filtering, network usage statistics and monitoring. ~,End-user connection, signup, Iogin, customer-provided equipment ("CPE") and use processes. To properly manage public opinion, this deployment is not intended to be open for broad public use, rather it will be limited to select beta testers connecting to a hidden SSID. Services will include, but not be limited to, retail (single provider) Intemet/lntranet access, VolP, transit services, and public safety access. Advanced services such as wireless meter reading will be demonstrated if possible and given sufficient anchor tenancy interest. o Public Benefit uses of the POC network and processes for incorporating this with the final POC network. Provide for real-time data for impact on City-owned mounting assets. Processes and procedures for establishing collocation in regard to rights-of-way, power, etc. Additionally, processes for interconnecting to and extending municipal agency services across the POC network will also be flushed out. Power consumption rates, usage and processes sufficient for collocation agreements with local power utilities. ~, Aesthetics of the installed hardware for the WSV wireless systems. The POC network will be completed once SVMC and WSV each approve the network, which approval is expected in less than 120 days. At the end of 120 days, if the POC network has not been successfully completed, the participating parties will decide if it is necessary to further extend the POC network. Parenthetically, the POC network will fully demonstrate the application of the SLAs with the exception of final network reliability, which will require longer periods of time to ’ monitor (e.g. 6-12 months) and additional backups and redundancies that will be added in the final, production network. POC Project Roles The following roles would be fulfilled for the duration of the POC network: City of Palo Alto I Wireless Silicon Valley I WSV Task Force Agencies =Joint and final approval of network. ¯Provide for permit fast tracking. o Flat Rate for power, to the extent legally permissible, lump sum payment to the City for use of its Rights-of-Way in order to mount assets on Light poles, Traffic signals, Utility Poles, and government buildings, to the extent permitted by law, rule or regulation for the duration of the POC network. ¯Testing, including internal LAN extended across municipal network as well as 10- !00 Pdvate Users for testing in the final stages of the POC network. ,, 4.9GHz FCC License for shared use with SVMC. Azulstar - Prime contractor (Silicon Valley Metro Connect) Network design, deployment, operations, monitoring, maintenance, support, billing, CPE provisioning. customer IBM (Silicon Valley Metro Connect) ¯Project Management, equipment services integration. supplier, network design services,vertical Clsco and Alvarion (Silicon Valley Metro Connect) = Equipment supplier, design services. SeaKay (Silicon Valley Metro Connect) Public Benefit uses and processes within the network. POC Additional Notes: °SVMC will secure permits, as required, for asset mounting and power access. ¯SVMC will pay a lump sum fee or other consideration for the un-metered power utilization for the 120 day testing period. ,, SVMC will pay a lump sum fee or other consideration to the City for use of the Rights-of-Way in order to mount assets on Light poles, Traffic signals, Utility Poles, and government buildings, to the extent permitted by law, rule, or regulation for the duration of the POC network. 1051 Jackson I O~and Haven, MI I g77-Azulstar Deployed network access points can be left in place, and then transferred under the Municipal Model Agreement, once testing acceptance is completed. Residential and Business CPE access will be limited to selected participants who live and/or work in the concept WSV Systems coverage RF area; this will be determined at the time the Cities and the areas are selected. If this proposal is acceptable to the City of Pale Alto, kindly indicate acceptance by signing below. Sincerely, SILICON VALLEY METRO CONNECT Houwelingen CEO Azulstar, Inc. On behalf of the City of Pale Alto, I accept this proposal. FRANK BENEST City Manager ATTACHMENT 2 ATTACHMENT 3 iREL’ prelect o1’ Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network Participating Entities as of September 1, 2006 San Mateo County Santa Clara County Atherton ¯Campbell Belmont ¯Cupertino Brisbane ¯Gilroy Burlingame o Los Altos Colma ¯Los Altos Hills Daly City ¯Los Gatos East Palo Alto ¯Milpitas Foster City o Monte Sereno Half Moon Bay ¯Morgan Hill Hillsborough o Mountain View Menlo Park ,Palo Alto Millbrae ¯San Jose Pacifica ~Santa Clara Portola Valley ¯Santa Clara County Redwood City ,~Saratoga San Bruno ¯Stanford Campus San Carlos Residential San Mateo Leaseholders San Mateo County ¯Sunnyvale San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Alameda County South San Francisco Woodside ¯Fremont Newark Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz