Managed Leased Lit Service: Your proposal should include pricing options for 10, 20, and 40 Gbps connections with scalability to 100 Gbps between each endpoint site and the head-end site, and should allow for service level changes to be made to any location during the term of the contract; other connections will be considered. Proposals including throttling, asymmetrical bandwidth, and traffic restrictions are not acceptable. The vendor will provide a level of service that will ensure 99.999% uptime for the listed sites. The awarded vendor, if the vendor is providing managed lit fiber, will operate a Network Operations Center (NOC) that will monitor the network on a 24x7x365 basis. The NOC will have toll free access from Kenton County School District. This call center must be staffed with personnel able to accept a telephone call reporting trouble at any time and must have the appropriate resources to escalate trouble calls as required. The NOC will notify Kenton County School District of any anomaly observed on the network and will immediately take whatever corrective actions are required to meet a 99.999% level of network availability. Lit fiber circuits must be provisioned with an active, powered stand-alone network device on each end of the link. Simply terminating circuits into an optical interface module is not acceptable. Please note that to compare the different fiber options accurately, the Applicant assumes that lit fiber costs include: 1. Modulating Equipment (You must describe proposed electronics, with specifications and the expected life for the equipment.) 2. Annual maintenance (markers, general inspection, preventative maintenance, etc.) 3. Annual operating costs 4. Repair of Cuts, Diagnosis and Resolution of Outages, and Fiber Relocations at the cost of the provider 5. Emergency Restoration and Relocation 6. Miscellaneous Fees: Known right of way, pole attachment(aerial) fee, railroad crossing, other issues In any contract for lit fiber service, the act of changing (raising or lowering) service tiers during the term shall not cause a change in the end date for that contract, and the price for such tier changes shall not increase above the tier pricing agreed to prior to the commencement of the initial term.
