Regions 1 & 4Planning 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

• Unique Capabilities– 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?

• 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• 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– Large document transfer

– Real-time communications with customers and suppliers

– On-line transactions

– Research

The Network

Characteristics:• 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 NetworkRequirements:• 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 NetworkArchitecture:• 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– 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

• VLAN

• VPN for remote office/telecommuting

• Wireless backhaul

• Fiber leasing

• IP telephony

What Cumberland Plateau Co. Can Offer?• 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