2 Fiber Optic WAV – Addendum #1

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RFP # 2026-2 FIBER OPTIC WAN Addendum #1 Requests and Responses Question: Response: Question: Response: Question: Response: Question: Will the provider be required to include any equipment and managed services as part of the lit fiber bid? Yes, all equipment and services typically required to provide a lit fiber solution should be included in the bid. Please provide Gbps throughput on current firewall – is this Gbps throughput with application, anti-virus, vulnerability, DNS inspection and URL filtering? 5.21 GiB in the last 24-hour period How many sessions/second does the current firewall support? The firewall supports 300,000 new TCP sessions per second. Over the next 5 years, what is the expected supported additional sessions/second and the maximum number of active sessions? Response: Question: Response: Question: Response: Question: Response: Question: Response: No expected increase. Which interfaces are required or desired and how many of each? 1G, 10G, 25G? Media type? We currently use two 10G (Lagged) interfaces and three 1G interfaces. Also, we currently have one HA heartbeat interface but will be setting up a redundant HA heartbeat interface to go with that. What is connection speed to CEN? Any other ISP connections? 500 Mbps, no other ISP connections What is the address of the hub site location? Stonington High School, 176 South Broad Street, Pawcatuck, CT 06379 Is there more than one hub site? No. Not for our firewalls. Question: Response: Question: Response: Question: Response: Question: Response: Question: Does the current firewall support multiple virtual firewalls in the same firewall? We do not use virtual firewalls, but the current firewall supports virtual firewalls. Is failover capability to another firewall installed or desired? Yes. We currently have a HA pair set up. Number of site to site VPN’s or remote Users We do not have any site to site VPNs setup but do have VPN tunnels enabled for our remote users. Number of NAT’s Most of our policies utilize NAT. Not sure what is being asked here. Number of security rules Response: Question: Response: Question: Response: 6 Are you using any firewall management tools? If so, which product? We only use the Web GUI. Is the firewall actively managed? Yes