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Potential roles for the City may include: • Develop internal infrastructure, including City -owned conduit with fiber linking its facilities on a priority and cost justified basis. The first phase of this approach would also include other governmental institutions such as facilities of the Roseville Area School District • Become a provider of external infrastructure as a lesser of conduit and/or fiber to non- governmental institutional entities. • Become a provider of a full - service network to external, non - governmental institutional entities and City residents. In any of the above three options, the City might partner with an established telecommunications provider. The partner and City could j ointly develop and provide the above assets and services, subject to their economic and technical feasibility, under a multi -phase agreement. Staff recommends the development of a fiber optic telecommunications network for use by public agencies and institutions with additional capacity for leased conduit and/or fiber to non- governmental entities. Enhancements to Delivery of Government Services Over the past few years, the City's internal use of telecommunications technologies has grown significantly. The City now operates and depends on a sophisticated local and wide area network that connects staff at all City facilities for voice and computer communications. This advanced network is extended to 14 other public agencies (Chart A.). There are currently 43 public buildings (Chart B.) connected on an existing network compromised of municipal fiber optic cabling and a Comcast provided coaxial and fiber optic network. Whereas the City has already made investments in it's own fiber optic network, the vast majority of the infrastructure is provided by Comcast as part of the City's local cable television franchise through the provision of an Institutional Network (INET). However many portions of the INET still operate on outdated coaxial cable connections and equipment which do not provide the reliability necessary to sustain advanced applications like IP telephony and GIS applications. And with the uncertainty of any provision of local cable television franchising beyond the current agreement that expires in 2012, it is necessary that the City make even effort to begin development of an alternate to the Comcast network. The City has made significant investments in telecommunications technologies, including IP Telephony, Geographical Information Services, document imaging and management, network video security and surveillance, and Internet access. To support these services, high bandwidth connections are required to interconnect key network hubs like the City Hall Data Center to municipal facilities located throughout the City and neighboring communities. Fiber optic networks provide the capacity for supporting technologies now being implemented and provide opportunities to deliver high bandwidth video and multimedia applications to City facilities and the public as planned in the near future, facilitating video conferencing, video training, integrated voice and data applications, and full motion video and sound. other facilities on the City wide area network now require bandwidth upgrades to support new demands. Page 7 of 9