2.4 TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS A. The telecommunications services must support the transport of the existing applications and related data currently being utilized by the State agencies. B. The solution(s) must allow the existing applications to function normally and perform properly, including but not limited to: Page 7 of 21 1. Internet access 2. High Volume Database transmission 3. Network Monitoring 4. Security Monitoring 5. Content Filtering 6. Education applications 7. Agency Services hosted by DIS, the agencies in State Data centers, or in the cloud C. The equipment must support virtual private network traffic between the agency sites and the State aggregation sites for some of the above applications as determined by DIS. D. The Contractor shall be able to provide up to three (3) VLANs on a single Ethernet hand-off at agency sites. E. The network handoff for all Ethernet connections must meet the following requirements: 1. 100Mbps and below must be 100BaseT (copper) connections or 1000BaseSX as specified by the customer when the service is ordered. 2. Between 100 Mbps and 1Gbps must be 1000BaseSX unless specified differently by the customer when the service is ordered. 3. Greater than 1Gbps must be 10GBase-SR unless specified differently by the customer when the service is ordered. F. The telecommunications services must be compatible with customer public or private IPv4 and IPv6 addressing. G. The basic design for this network is one that will, at some sites, support applications that require minimal loss and low latency. The Ethernet Class of Service (CoS) must be provisioned as Business Critical – Medium. DIS is currently utilizing only two priority queues, “EF” and “AF31” along with the standard “Best Effort” class. Future applications may require utilization of additional priority queues. The Contractor’s infrastructure must honor and act upon packets or frames with traditional QoS or CoS markings. The Contractor shall support a minimum of four (4) priority queues and the “best effort” class. Official Price Sheet Tables 5 & 6 may be expanded and modified by the Contractor to show all the options and cost for the features associated with the service bid. H. DIS prefers Layer 2 switched connectivity. Where a Contractor provides Layer 3 services inside their network, the hand-offs to the State must be Layer 2. I. If DIS needs a private network address as specified in Request for Comments RFC 1918 (Network Address Translation), the State will allocate IP addresses out of the RFC 1918 address space. In this case, Contractor(s) shall support private and public IP addresses equally. If RFC 1918 addresses must be accomplished within a site-to-site VPN tunnel. J. Each proposed service demarcation point must be clearly labeled with applicable Circuit Identification.
