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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 15, 2012 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No.rj <br />SUBJECT: Approval of a Resolution Regarding a Lease Agreement between Chapel Hill — <br />Carrboro City Schools, NWN Corporation /Cisco Systems Inc. and Key <br />Government Finance, Inc. <br />DEPARTMENT: Finance and Administrative PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Proposed Orange County Resolution <br />CHCCS Resolution with Board of <br />Education Abstract <br />Lease Agreement with Key Government <br />Finance, Inc. <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Clarence Grier, Finance and <br />Administrative Services Director, <br />919- 245 -2453 <br />Frank Clifton, Manager, 919 - 245 -2306 <br />Dr. Tom Forcella, Superintendent, <br />CHCCS, 919 - 967 -8211 <br />Todd LoFrese, CHCCS, 919 - 967 -8211 <br />PURPOSE: To approve a resolution regarding a lease agreement between Chapel Hill — <br />Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS), NWN Corporation /Cisco Systems Inc., and Key Government <br />Finance, Inc. for the lease of equipment to upgrade the district's technology infrastructure. <br />BACKGROUND: Since 2006, CHCCS network switches have supported almost 12,000 network <br />servers, Internet Protocol (IP) phones, wireless access points (WAPs), computers, printers, <br />smart boards, projectors, and IP cameras. This represents a 200% growth in CHCCS <br />computers and 300 %+ in other network devices since 2006. CHCCS secure and guest wireless <br />networks now support 2,500+ simultaneous connections each day and those numbers continue <br />to increase as users continue to bring in their own wireless devices. <br />CHCCS critical network and system services are provided from the core switches at the Lincoln <br />Center and Smith Middle Data Centers. There is a district -owned gigabit fiber connection <br />between them. The core switches at Lincoln Center support the district's Wide Area Network <br />(WAN) and Internet services, the network security firewall, half of the Internet Protocol <br />telephony (IPT) servers, Connect 2 School (C2S) core servers, and a backup storage <br />appliance. The core switches at Smith support the district's WAN services, the wireless <br />infrastructure, half of the IPT servers, the primary network storage appliance, C2S application <br />servers, and 20+ virtual servers for a host of administrative and instructional applications. In <br />order to continue supporting its ability to provide a higher level of computing and <br />