Transcript Slide 1

Regions 1 & 4
Planning and Development
Councils
in Partnership with
Cumberland Plateau Company
Where a Broadband Future is Today’s Reality
Need for Broadband Connectivity in Rural Areas
HISTORICALLY:
Mostly underserved in terms of competitive high-speed Broadband services.
• Incumbents, ILECs and CATV, provide:
– Limited Broadband service options
– Varying costs within very restricted and inconsistent geographic areas
• When infrastructure is provided:
– Constructed on a timetable determined by corporate
– Market size
– Not local needs
• Access to incumbent’s cable infrastructure is:
– Not available
– At capacity
• Profit motives and technical limitations have kept competing service
providers from sharing access to the incumbent’s cable plant.
Need for Broadband Connectivity in Rural Areas
TECHNICALLY:
• Existing copper and hybrid-fiber-coax (HFC) plants are not
suited for providing:
– Reliability
– Bandwidth required by next-generation services
• Virtual Private Networking
• Point-to-Point connectivity
• Application Service Provisioning
• Gigabit speed services
• Real-time gaming
Why Install a Fiber-Optic Broadband Network?
• Encourage economic development from a regional perspective
– Recruitment of new industry and service-based companies
– Retain existing commercial and industrial customers
– Provide one network that passes through political subdivisions in both
Region 1&4 Planning and Development Councils
– Introduce high-quality local telecommunications services
– Provide cutting-edge technology
– Access to competitively priced bandwidth with the same rates regardless of
service area
– Local control
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Existing customer relationships
Local presence and name recognition
Ability to provide a full menu of data, voice and video services
Services breakthrough ability
Quality of service
Who Will Benefit?
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Local, state and federal governmental agencies
Local school systems
Colleges and universities
Libraries
Health-care facilities
Telemedicine initiatives
Financial institutions
Public safety
Commercial and Industrial
Telecommuters
Fiber Network User Feedback
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Speed and bandwidth
Increased reliability of fiber compared to other forms of access
Service pricing
Customer service and support
Make operations easier
Increases efficiency
Saves time
High speed capabilities incorporated into daily operations
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Large document transfer
Real-time communications with customers and suppliers
On-line transactions
Research
The Network
Characteristics:
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All fiber-optic network
Fully protected
Diversely routed
Carrier-class optical ring
Not limited in bandwidth capacity
– Utilize different wavelengths
• Flexible platform for the creation, transport and
delivery of next-generation broadband-based IP
services
• Environmental protected
The Network
Requirements:
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Diversity
Redundancy
Multiple and diverse Internet connections
Scalability
– Incremental bandwidth increases
– Self-provisioning
Mileage insensitive
Flat rate inter-city transport cost
Easily customized to business requirements
Designed and built to support business needs
The Network
Architecture:
• Transport network
– Wide Area Network (WAN)
– Carrier-class optical ring
– Initial transport capacity
• 100Gbps (400Gbps total capacity)
– Packet transport network will consist of a state-of-the-art IP/MPLS
core
• Access network
– Fiber-to-the-User (FTTU)
– Passive Optical Network (PON)
• 2.4Gbps downstream/1.2Gbps upstream
• PON enables very efficient and relatively low cost deployment of FTTU
• PON allows for a single fiber to be split passively up to 32 times and uses
WDM to carry three wavelengths for data transmit/receive and video
broadcast.
• PONs are ideal for serving general data, voice and video access
requirements to commercial, industrial and residential customers
– Private ethernet
Service Offerings
• Internet access
– Asynchronous/Synchronous
• Point-to-Point/Point-to Multi-Point Connectivity
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Simplified multi-facility connectivity
Local, regional and global
Form relationships with regional and national carriers
Marketed as alternative to T1/FR network
Target market includes banks, law firms, clinics, social services,
governmental entities and multi-site C&I facilities
• Web hosting
• Server co-location
• Secure firewall
Service Offerings
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VLAN
VPN for remote office/telecommuting
Wireless backhaul
Fiber leasing
IP telephony
What Cumberland Plateau Co. Can Offer?
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Design, engineering and inspection
Bills of Material
Make-ready applications for aerial attachments
Railroad and highway permitting
Material and labor RFPs
Broadband grant writing expertise
Marketing
Sales training
Management
Personnel hiring and training
Bandwidth procurement
Business Plan
Experience that will reduce construction, start-up, operational
and maintenance costs
Discussion Points and Questions
• Forming a Cooperative with Regions 1&4 Planning and
Development Councils and CPC
• Public/Private partnerships
• Funding
• Revenue stream
• Product pricing
• Timeframes
• Wireless
• Operations and maintenance
• Last-mile connections
• Network management