1. Self-Provisioned Fiber a. Construction or purchase of fiber routes by ACPS. b. ACPS designs for twelve strand capacity to each location from our primary data center site. c. Please see Figure 1 for the approximate ACPS owned fiber footprint. d. Please see Attachment Z for more detailed requirements. 2. Dark Fiber a. Lease or IRU of dark fiber between two points. b. Bidder shall provide single-mode fiber performance characteristics; fiber type, attenuation, useable wavelength spectrum, splice count, acceptable splice loss, dispersion, etc. c. ACPS is amenable to a fiber “meet point” at sensible points along the existing fiber network, terminations in building are not necessarily a requirement. d. ACPS prefers SC UPC terminations and will accept APC terminations if service provided preferred. e. Dark fiber is preferred to terminate at the Data Center listed in Table 3, followed by the other three locations appended with ***. As this may not be practical due to cost, ACPS will entertain termination at any location in Table 3, also including Table 1 if part of the proposed design, or a meet point on the existing ACPS fiber network as shown in Figure 1. f. Acceptable strand count may be as low as one single strand if resource limits or cost is significant for a higher count. Two or more strands are preferred. g. ACPS possesses OTDR and other fiber diagnostic equipment as well as the expertise to perform fiber testing for troubleshooting in the event of degraded fiber performance or locating faults and cuts. h. ACPS possesses the necessary equipment and expertise to perform fiber fusion splicing and fiber termination. i. ACPS County is familiar with engineering practices relating to mid to long haul optical networks and wavelength multiplexing...
