The Owner is seeking proposals for internet services at 1Gbps, or higher. It is expected that all schools within the Owner connect to the Owners Office and then are connected to the internet via the Owners Office, unless otherwise noted in the “Additional Services List” below. It is anticipated that all staff and students within the Owner will be able to access this service. The Respondent must include in their proposal any/all electronic equipment needed to accomplish access to the internet and monitoring of the circuit during normal business hours. Maintenance of all Respondents equipment shall be a part of the Respondents’ responsibility. If there is a one-time connection fee, please list this fee separately. Internet Access The Respondents’ cost to provide Internet Access (Bandwidth) shall include the following: 1. The available bandwidth shall be a minimum of 1Gbps, or higher. 2. The service handoff shall be directly to the Owner’s existing Local Area Network. 3. Internet access shall be available 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 4. Route all Owner’s TCP/IP data traffic from their network to the internet. 5. Respondent must maintain connections to multiple Tier 1 internet providers. Internet Connection The Respondents’ cost to provide an Internet Connection, shall include the following: 1. The necessary physical connection from the Respondent to the Owner, including but not limited to any/all one-time special construction cost(s), permits and licensing, and Respondent’s supplied on-site premise equipment necessary to successfully transmit the requested service. 2. All costs necessary, including but not limited to, “curb-to-demarc”, to deliver the requested hand off to the Owners existing “pointof-demarcation”. a. Point-of-Demarcation: Work Readiness Academy located at 970 Suburban Rd., Union, NJ 07083. 3. Demarcation hand-off will be a Copper connection. Respondent will provide and maintain all premise equipment necessary to provide the Owner with the specified hand-off type of service requested. 4. Full duplex operation (bi-directional connection) 5. The requested service shall allow the following Network Protocols: a. All TCP/IP protocols b. All layer 1 and layer 2 protocols. Minimum layer 3 protocols (EIGRP, IGMP, IPSEC, OSPF, & RIP). 6. No other Respondents customer will have any physical or logical access to the Owner’s traffic/VLAN.
