CANARIE “Community Condo Fiber Networks” The Customer Empowered Networking Revolution

1. CANARIE “Community Condo Fiber Networks”The Customer Empowered Networking Revolution http://www.canarie.ca http://www.canet3.net Bill.St.Arnaud@canarie.ca Tel: +1.613.785.0426 David.Macneil@canarie.ca Tel: +1.613.943.5377

2. CANARIE Inc • Mission: To facilitate the development of Canada’s communications infrastructure and stimulate next generation products, applications and services • Canadian equivalent to Internet 2 and NGI • private-sector led, not-for-profit consortium • consortium formed 1993 • federal funding of $300m (1993-99) • total project costs estimated well over $600 M • currently over 140 members; 21 Board members

3. Canada & the Optical Age • World leader in optical networking - JDS Fitel, Nortel, Cambrian, Positron Fiber Systems, CISCO Canada, PMC Sierra, QNX, Tropic, Edgeflow, Accelight, Lumenon • Over 75% of the world’s Internet traffic is carried on equipment made in Canada • Nortel Optical Transport made in Montreal • Newbridge ATM switches made in Ottawa • JDS Fitel optical components made in Ottawa • CISCO GSR12000 made in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver • CA*net 3 - A network for basic research unparalleled anywhere in the world • Canada could be poised to be a world leader in the “optical age” • Silicon Valley was the capital of the “silicon age” • Britain was the capital of the “industrial age” • Canada has the critical industrial base for the optical age

4. CA*net 3 National Optical Internet Consortium Partners: Bell Nexxia Nortel Cisco JDS Uniphase Newbridge CA*net 3 Primary Route CA*net 3 Diverse Route GigaPOP ORAN Deploying a 4 channel CWDM Gigabit Ethernet network – 400 km Deploying a 4 channel Gigabit Ethernet transparent optical DWDM– 1500 km Condo Dark Fiber Networks connecting universities and schools Condo Fiber Network linking all universities and hospital Multiple Customer Owned Dark Fiber Networks connecting universities and schools Netera MRnet SRnet ACORN St. John’s BCnet Calgary Regina Winnipeg Charlottetown RISQ ONet Fredericton Montreal Vancouver 16 channel DWDM -8 wavelengths @OC-192 reserved for CANARIE -8 wavelengths for carrier and other customers Halifax Ottawa Seattle STAR TAP Toronto Chicago New York

5. CA*net 3 & Community Networks • E-research grids • Researchers will want to use computing resources of schools and homes • SETI@Home • New grid projects in bio-informatics, pharmaceutical research, particle physics need access to millions of computers • Democratization of research • Next big discovery in cancer or particle physics could be made at your local high school

6. Customer Empowered Networks • School boards and municipalities throughout North America are building condominium dark fiber networks in partnership with next generation carrier • Individual institutions – the customers – own and control their own strands of fiber • Fiber are configured in point to point private networks; or • Connect to local ISP or carrier hotel • Private sector maintains the fiber • Low cost LAN architectures and optics are used to light the fiber • These new concepts in customer empowered networking are starting in the same place as the Internet started – the university and research community. • Customers will start with dark fiber but will eventually extend further outwards with customer control and ownership of wavelengths • Extending the Internet model of autonomous peering networks to the telecom world

7. Examples of CENCustomer Empowered Networks • Universities in Quebec are building their own 3500km “condominium” fiber network in partnership with 6 next gen carriers- $US 2million • Will deploy and manage their own optics and long haul transmission gear • Universities in Alberta are deploying their own 400 km 4xGbe dark fiber network - $US 200K • Deploy and manage their own optics and long haul transmission gear • Chicago is building a fiber networking linking all public sector institutions - $US 250m • City of Montreal is second most fibered city in the world because of municipal owned open access conduit • In Ottawa is deploying a 85km- 144 strand “condominium” network connecting 26 institutions – cost $1m US • Peel County – Missassuaga & Brampton has built a 200km public sector fiber network - $US 5m • Many other cities including Ashland OR, Halifax, Fredericton, Toronto are looking at similar initiatives

8. Market Drivers • First - low cost • Up to 1000% reduction over current telecom prices. 6-12 month payback • Second - LAN invades the WAN – no complex SONET or ATM required in network • Network Restoral & Protection can be done by customer using a variety of techniques such as wireless backup, or relocating servers to a multi-homed site, etc • Third - Enables new applications and services not possible with traditional telecom service providers • Relocation of servers and extending LAN to central site • Out sourcing LAN and web servers to a 3rd party because no performance impact • IP telephony in the wide area (Spokane) • HDTV video • Fourth – Allows access to new competitive low cost telecom and IT companies at carrier neutral meet me points • Much easier to out source servers, e-commerce etc to a 3rd party at a carrier neutral collocation facility

9. What is condominium fiber? • A number of organizations such as schools, hospitals, businesses and universities get together to fund and build a fiber network • Carrier partners are also invited to be part of condominium project • Several next generation carriers and fiber brokers are now arranging condominium fiber builds • IMS, QuebecTel, Videotron, Cogeco, Dixon Cable, GT Telecom, etc etc • Fiber is installed, owned and maintained by 3rd party professional fiber contractors – usually the same contractors used by the carriers for their fiber builds • Each institution gets its own set of fibers, at cost, on a 20 year IRU (Indefeasible Right of Use) • One time up front cost, plus annual maintenance and right of way cost approx 5% of the capital cost • Institution lights up their own strands with whatever technology they want – Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, PBX, etc • New long range laser will reach 120 km • Ideal solution for point to point links for large fixed institutions • Payback is usually less than 18 months

10. Alberta SUPERnet • Province wide network of condominium fiber to 420 communities in Alberta • Guaranteed cost of bandwidth to all public sector institutions • $500/mo for 10 Mbps, $700/mo for 100 Mbps • Network a mix of fibre builds and existing supplier infrastructure (swap/buy/lease) • Condominium approach: All suppliers can • Buy (or swap) a share of the fibre (during build or after) • Lease bandwidth at competitive rates • GOA has perpetual right to use (IRU) • Ownership will be held at arms length • GOA/stakeholder rates are costs to run divided over users • Because of fibre capacity, bandwidth can be made available to businesses at urban competitive rate • Total cost $193m • Bell Intrigna prime contractor

11. Alberta SUPERnet IRUs • Extended Area • 372 communities • GOA/stakeholder needs • Proceeds from businesses (urban benchmarked rates) to GOA to further network - $143 Million GOA - 100% GOA IRU • Base Area • 48 communities • GOA/stakeholder needs • Business proceeds to Bell (urban benchmarked rates) - $50 Million GOA - 33%GOA IRU - $102 Million Bell - 67% Bell IRU

12. Alberta SUPERnet Example BUFFALO TRAILS SCHOOL DIVISION • Combination: • Fibre build • Use of Existing Infrastructure Communities with one or more school

13. Alberta SUPERnet Impact RURAL COMMUNITIES • Future (Everywhere) • Residences • High speed DSL residential Internet at urban rates ($40/month) • Businesses • High speed business services available at competitive urban rates (eg $820/month - T1) • Higher speeds at comparable rates • Current (Typical) • Residences • 56 Kbps dial Internet ($85/Month) • No high speed Internet • Businesses • Some T1 Facilities ($2000/Month average - rates distance sensitive) • Some high speed business service on special setuparrangement

14. Chicago CivicNet • CivicNet - A City-Wide Condominium Fiber Project • connecting up 1600 public sector institutions • Oriented to Development of Backbone Infrastructure • With Gateways to Tributary Systems • More Fiber in More Places Faster • Ubiquitous, Pervasive: 1,600 Locations • E-Z High-Performance Low-Cost Internet Connectivity • Foundation = Existing City Fiber Builds

15. Fredericton, N.B. “At this morning's quarterly Mayor's Business Breakfast, City of Fredericton Mayor A.M. (Sandy) DiGiacinto released details about the high-speed fibre optic cable which will be used to connected the new NRC E-Commerce Institute (UNB campus) to the Greater Fredericton Knowledge Park. Staff have been instructed by City Council to prepare a business case that would leverage this 3 km stretch of cable into an Ultra High-Speed Community Network managed by the municipality.” Nov. 2000

16. Fredericton • Started as Economic Development tool • MUSH, Govt., Research - ISP, carriers invited to participate • Build partners emerged quickly, $50,000 “donated” by three firms • Contracting now for 8 km phase 1, $110,000, complete Sept 2001 • 48 fiber min.

18. Quebec University Condo Network Construit Projet démarré À venir Bande passante louée MAN de Montréal MAN d’Ottawa/Hull MAN de Québec MAN de Sherbrooke Val d’Or/Rouyn Observatoire Mont-Mégantic

19. Construit Projet démarré À venir Bande passante louée Lionel-Groulx Lanaudière Sorel-Tracy Montreal Public Sector Condominium Networks Marie-Victorin Rosemont Montmorency Maisonneuve Ahuntsic Édouard-Montpetit Bois-de-Boulogne Vers Québec St-Laurent/Vanier Champlain Vieux-Montréal Gérald-Godin Dawson John-Abbott André-Laurendeau

20. List of School Board Fiber Builds

21. South Dundas IROQUOIS MORRISBURG

22. South Dundas Results • Morrisburg , Iroquios Have Fibre Hung • Electronics In and Fibre Lit • ISP’s , ASP’s all Want In the Fibre • Major Employers Inquiring • Very Positive Attitude in Community • Digital Desert to Digital Oasis

23. Peel County Municipal Fiber Network • Mississauga, Brampton, Pell • 200 km of Fibre • 96 strand backbone • “Enough for small country” • 12-60 strands elsewhere • 12,000 strand-kilometers • Laid end-to-end = Victoria to St. John’s …...and back again

24. Ottawa Fiber Condominium • Consortium consists of 16 members from various sectors including businesses, hospitals, schools, universities, research institutes • 26 sites • Point-to-point topology • 144 fibre pairs • Route diversity requirement for one member • 85 km run • $11k - $50K per site • Total project cost $CDN 1.25 million • Cost per strand less than $.50 per strand per meter • 80% aerial • Due to overwhelming response to first build – planning for second build under way

26. Typical Fiber Capital Costs • Average total cost between $7 and $15 per meter as follows: • Engineering and Design: • $1 - $3 per meter for engineering, design, supervision, splicing • Plus Installation: • $7 to $10 per meter for install in existing conduit; or • $3 to $6 per meter for install on existing poles • Plus Premise termination: • Average $5k each • Plus cost of fiber: • 15¢ per strand per meter for 36 strands or less • 12¢ per strand per meter for 96 strands or less • 10¢ per strand per meter 192 strands or less • 5¢ per strand per meter over 192 strands

27. Condo Fiber Costs - Examples • Des affluents: Total cost $1,500,000 ($750,000 for schools) • 70 schools • 12 municipal buildings • 204 km fiber • $1,500,000 total cost • average cost per building - $18,000 per building • Mille-Isles: Total cost $2,100,000 ($1,500,000 for schools) • 80 schools • 18 municipal buildings • 223km • $21,428 per building • Laval: Total cost $1,800,000 ($1,000,000 for schools) • 111 schools • 45 municipal buildings • 165 km • $11,500 per building • Peel county: Total cost $5m – 100 buildings • Cost per building $50,000

28. Typical Payback for school(Real example – des affluents – north of Montreal) • Over 3 years total expenditure of $1,440,000 for DSL service • Total cost of dark fiber network for 75 schools $1,350,000 • Additional condominium participants were brought in to lower cost to school board to $750,000 • School board can now centralize routers and network servers at each school • Estimated savings in travel and software upgrades $800,000 • Payback typically 8 –16 months • Independent Study by Group Secor available upon request

29. Before After fiber fiber • Antennas 78 0 • Novell Servers 82 1 • SQL Servers 13 3 • Lotus Notes Servers 2 1 • Tape Backup Servers 12 4 • Ethernet switches/hubs 10 98 • Routers 108 3 • Cache/proxy (Linux) 12 0 • Fire walls (Linux) 1 1 Reduction in the number of servers

30. Condo fiber for Business • Significant reduction in price for local loop costs • No increase in local loop costs as bandwidth demands increase • Ability to outsource LAN and web servers to distant location as LAN speeds and performance can be maintained over dark fiber • Access to lower cost competitive service providers at carrier neutral hotels • New entrants cannot afford high cost of building out their own fiber networks • Even small businesses with less than 20 employees can realize significant savings and benefits • Examples: • Colgate-Palmolive build in Cincinnati • Nortel, Cisco, Gov’t depts in Ottawa

31. Advantage of Condo Fiber SONET Mux and ADM Carrier managed SONET ring ISP ISP Central Office Monthly cost Fixed Bandwidth Central Office Today: Customer pays 2 telcos for SONET connections Long reach lasers Customer Owned Dark Fiber ISP ISP $50K one time Unlimited Bandwidth $50K one time Unlimited bandwidth Tomorrow: Multiple Customer owned dark fiber links to ISPs

32. Condo fiber for cities • In downtown core minimizes digging up streets • If N carriers are trying to deploy service then number of times roads has to be torn up is N squared • However with condominium fiber road only has to be torn up once • Produces a competitive market place and level playing field • New competitive carrier can meet customers at carrier neutral collocation facilities • Eliminates market advantage of incumbents • In suburban areas eliminates duopoly of cable and TV companies • The first company to install fiber into suburban neighborhoods will likely have a natural monopoly • In Stockholm home owners have a choice of 4 cable companies • Makes cities a much more attractive place for new high tech businesses and service

33. Facilities based competition in the residential neighborhood? • Facilities based competition is alive and well in downtown core • The biggest challenge for governments is manage and coordinate the digging up of streets • Outside of downtown in big cities • Usually only a monopoly telecom provider • At best a duopoly • How do we introduce facilities based competition into this market (or at least come as close as possible to true facilities based competition)? • As well how can we assure scalable high speed Internet services to the home that eventually will support Gigabit speeds or higher?

34. Community Fiber Architecture • A community consortia would put together a plan to fiber up all public sector buildings in their community • A community can be a province, a municipality, village, etc • A fiber splice box that terminates the fiber at the street side nearby each public sector building such as school, hospital, library is called a “Node” • Community should must insure that potential facilities exist near the for private sector equipment to connect up future home owners – colo facility • Colo facility allows private sector to extend wireless, VDSL or HFC services to the neighbourhood around the school • Public sector buildings will have dedicated fiber strands that connect to a “Supernode” which is a fiber splice box on the street beside outside of major public sector central facility such as school board office, city hall, university, etc • Community should insure that facilities exist nearby the Supernode for the private sector to install equipment to service home owners and businesses – colo facility • Additional fibers are made available from the Supernode to all Nodes such that competitive service providers can purchase fiber to the node at some future date

35. Possible architecture for large town Carrier Owned Fiber Central Office For Wireless Company Cable head end School board office Telco Central Office Condominium Fiber with separate strands owned by school and by service providers Colo Facility School School Average Fiber Penetration to 250-500 homes VDSL, HFC or Fiber Provisioned by service provider

36. Benefits to Industry • For cablecos and telcos it help them accelerate the deployment of high speed internet services into the community • Currently deployment of DSL and cable modem deployment is hampered by high cost of deploying fiber into the neighbourhoods • Cable companies need fiber to every 250 homes for cable modem service, but currently only have fiber on average to every 5000 homes • Telephone companies need to get fiber to every 250 homes to support VDSL or FSAN technologies • Wireless companies need to get fiber to every 250 homes for new high bandwidth wireless services and mobile Internet • It will provide opportunities for small innovative service providers to offer service to public institutions as well as homes • For e-commerce and web hosting companies it will generate new business in out sourcing and web hosting • For Canadian optical manufacturing companies it will provide new opportunities for sales of optical technology and components

37. Historical Reference Points • There is a clear trend in all formerly monopoly services to move to unbundled competitive services • Roads and highway systems vs railways: infrastructure was largely “public”, but the services (e.g. trucking) were private and competitive • Electrical distribution systems: regulated monopolies (unbundling is on horizon) • Gas distribution systems: regulated monopolies (unbundling is well underway) • Legacy telecommunications systems: moving to unbundled fiber and facilities based competition

38. Carriers are not the only decision maker in the last mile • Governments and consumers are becoming more active voice in determining the future of broadband to home • Do not assume that carrier best technical solution is the only approach • Open access is becoming a critical political issue • Consumers want more than duopoly of cable and telco • Facilities based competition the best • Municipalities object to their streets being torn up • Dig once – bury lots of fiber • Residents object to street furniture and antennae

39. An important Role for Government • Governments promote the framework for GITH networks by funding schools, universities, libraries, hospitals and municipal buildings as first customers and early adopters of dark fiber and optical networks • Private sector leverages that investment by government to promote high speed Internet access to schools and universities to extend the fiber to the home • Electric utility companies, municipal governments, CLECs, SMEs, entrepreneurs, as well as traditional telcos and cablecos can participate as providers, provided they subscribe to the architecture of open access, facilities based competition through dark fiber (or wavelengths) • Emphasize the development and use of technology that specifically addresses the new architecture and the last mile, which must therefore be open, cheap and Internet-only

40. Conclusion • Many governments have recognized the importance of access to low cost dark fiber as fundamental economic enabler • It will be the 21st century equivalent to the roads and railways that were built in the 20th century