NET-17707 - USA (El Paso, Texas) - Leased Lit Fiber Dark Fiber Wide Area Network Services - Deadline December 10,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide leased lit fiber dark fiber wide area network services to the government authority located in El Paso, TX.– Leased lit fiber services or leased dark fiber services capable of meeting the operational, technical, performance, scalability, reliability, and E–Rate requirements.– Turnkey solution that provides secure, reliable, scalable, and cost–effective connectivity between district campuses, non–instructional facilities (NIFs), and network hubs.– Turnkey solution must support low–latency, jitter–sensitive applications, including voice, video, public safety, instructional systems, cloud applications, and data center services.– Solution must be scalable to higher bandwidth tiers, including 20, 40, 100 Gbps.– Solution shall provide dual, physically diverse entry paths at each site, utilizing separate building entry points and outside routes to minimize the risk of a single point of failure. – Fiber must be suitable for 10 Gbps service and must be scalable without additional special construction where feasible.– Network equipment should be Cisco Nexus 9300 (or newer) or equivalent and must include all necessary licenses, software, and hardware.– Underlying fiber route, network design, resiliency, route diversity, and robustness to include the number of network hops, network hubs, and any third–party facilities used to deliver service.(2) All questions must be submitted no later than November 30,2026.(3) The contract period will be for five years.