Network Enhancement Service

A government authority in Vineland, New Jersey is seeking a vendor to provide network enhancement services and evaluate the potential phased deployment of a wireless carrier enhancement and managed connectivity platform. The platform should leverage existing municipal network assets, City-controlled fiber infrastructure, customer-premise fiber connections, and potential pole-mounted area-wide coverage.

The proposed solution should use compatible City-owned Extreme Networks access points, switches, fiber, and related network infrastructure; securely separate carrier enhancement and public wireless traffic from City internal systems; and support centralized authentication through RADIUS, RadSec or RADIUS-over-TLS, Passpoint or Hotspot 2.0, or equivalent frameworks where applicable. It should also support policy-based authentication routing to carrier, roaming, enterprise, municipal, or partner authentication endpoints and provide a repeatable deployment model for Vineland fiber-served customers.

The vendor should evaluate whether existing Extreme access points can support dedicated SSIDs or broadcast profiles, Passpoint or Hotspot 2.0, WPA2 or WPA3 Enterprise, RADIUS authentication, RadSec or RADIUS-over-TLS directly or through an intermediary, VLAN tagging, client isolation, and traffic separation from internal City systems. The solution should also accommodate customer locations using compatible existing access points or a managed gateway access point package, while assessing future outdoor and area-wide coverage using City-controlled poles, fiber routes, municipal rights-of-way, and public infrastructure. The contract period will be one year.