The provincial government through its IEI agreement is supporting additional bandwidth to the rural universities. 10Mbps circuits were established to Acadia, St. Francis Xavier, and UCCB at the end of June. This is new service for StFX and UCCB, and a bandwidth increase for Acadia. Dark fibre to Acadia is being actively pursued as an attainable goal this year. The consulting firm of IMS has delivered a preliminary planning report, and Acadia is actively building on that report.
Discussions are underway among Halifax institutions for a metropolitan area dark fibre network.
Results were achieved as proposed. Results were achieved as proposed. An ORAN planning project will begin in mid January, 2000. Planning has begun. An initial report has been received from IMS for a link to Acadia None.