WAN

2026-11-03

The successful bid will : 1 . Be compatible with Aruba CX6300 equipment or equivqlent . 2 . Work with the district ’ s IT staff , providing configuration support and onsite assistance for any of the district ’ s owned equipment that are part of the handoff devices from the vendor ’ s equipment if necessary 3 . Not require Tuscaloosa County School District to purchase any additional networking equipment other than SFPs ( for owner devices ) or patch cables in order to connect to the vendor ’ s equipment . The vendor should provide SFPs for their equipment that is compatible with owner equipment and use LC connectors . 4 . Include the largest packet size allowed . Jumbo frames of 9216 bytes are preferred . 5 . Have a single point of escalation and clear escalation path for all problem calls . The WAN must : 1 . Be fault tolerant . A failure at one site must not cause any other site to be down . The design must not have a single central hardware device or network connection that if it fails , it then causes every school to be down at one time . 2 . Support a dynamic routing protocol to allow for network traffic rerouting in the event of a failure . The preferred protocol is BGP . The use of EIGRP , RIP or static routes will not be acceptable . 3 . Support layer 2 Multisite ( One to Many ) without Mac Address limitations . 4 . Support Quality of Service . The network must be able to prioritize and guarantee bandwidth for certain applications , especially voice over IP . 5 . Support Multimedia applications and Multicast / Unicast traffic packets non - restricted by allowing the customers equipment to handle classifications of said services

Alabama

2026-03-27