Fiber Ring Service (FRS)

Multi-Service Optical Ring

The FRS is a multi-service optical ring that is available to customers located in specific buildings in the downtown Sacramento area (listed below). This is a good option for customers requiring high-speed, high-availability connections between internal sites and/or external resources. The FRS operates as an MPLS-based virtual private network that enables secure communications through path isolation, encryption, and traffic engineering.

If you are not located in one of the building’s listed below, we can connect you through Fiber Ring Service Expansion (FRS-E) if your office is in the Sacramento region.  This requires CDT to provision a circuit on the customers behalf that connects to our FRS infrastructure.

Building on the Downtown Fiber Loop

Below is a list addresses of the buildings located on the Downtown Fiber Loop:

• 1 Capitol Mall
• 1001 I Street
• 1020 N Street
• 1021 O Street
• 1120 N Street
• 1215 O Street
• 1220 N Street
• 1227 O Street
• 1303 10th Street
• 1325 J Street
• 1416 9th Street
• 1430 N. Street
• 1500 11th Street
• 1516 9 Street
• 1600 9th Street
• 1615 Capitol Avenue
• 625 Q Street
• 714 P Street
• 715 P Street
• 721 Capitol Mall
• 744 P Street
• 751 N Street
• 770 L Street
• 800 Capitol Mall
• 801 Capitol Mall
• 900 N Street
• 901 P Street
• 914 Capitol Mall
• 915 Capitol Mall
• 915 L Street
• 980 9th Street

Secondary/Redundant Connections to CGEN

Should a customer have only the FRS for its single/primary connectivity, the customer acknowledges repair to the FRS can take anywhere from 72 to 120 hours. CDT brings this to the customer’s attention because the maintenance for the downtown fiber is a “Best Effort Emergency Maintenance”.

Security

The FRS infrastructure is located at State-owned buildings and provides physical and electronic security to network equipment. Only CDT staff has administration permissions to the network equipment. Administrative access to the equipment is tracked and logged. CDT staff has been subject to Live Scan background checks. Traffic transported by the FRS can be physically separated, logically separated, and encrypted if needed.

For more information, see Security Services.

Maintenance Schedule

Maintenance is scheduled during standard CDT Preventive Maintenance windows that can be viewed at the link below.

• Preventative Maintenance Schedule

The rate schedule represents standard CDT services. If a Customer requires technology solutions that are not part of the standard, CDT will review the Customer’s request and provide customized pricing as necessary.