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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