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Are we having fun yet?

Are we having fun yet?. Quilt Fall 2010 September 28, 2010 Mark Johnson - MCNC. ERC/BREMC – 24.5 mi Tyne Castle to Boone. Century Link – Sprinkled across North East. Also, Franklin County. Franklin County. AGL Networks (soon to be Zayo ) – Metropolitan Charlotte.

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Are we having fun yet?

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  1. Are we having fun yet? Quilt Fall 2010 September 28, 2010 Mark Johnson - MCNC

  2. ERC/BREMC – 24.5 mi Tyne Castle to Boone Century Link – Sprinkled across North East. Also, Franklin County. Franklin County AGL Networks (soon to be Zayo) – Metropolitan Charlotte Balsam West – 19 mi Robbinsville to Santeetlah Power House Dukenet – Across Southern route from Charlotte to Monroe, Monroe to Lilesville, and Rockingham to Laurinburg Dukenet – River Crossing to Wilmington BTOP2 – new construction BTOP2 – new IRU BTOP1 – new construction/swap MCNC Current Network BTOP1 or MCNC – existing IRU Zayo – 2 Options from Lenoir East to Elizabeth City and South to Wilmington MCNC Response to 4218 – Necessity of IRU, Lease and Fiber Swap Arrangements In many cases, multiple colors/route designations appear on the same route. For example, Franklin County is new construction and an IRU to Century Link MCNC Response to 4218 - Necessity of IRU, Lease, and Fiber-Swap Arrangements

  3. timeline FAMS RFI issued Materials RFP issued Construction RFP issued Engineering RFP awarded Optronics RFP issued acceptance Materials RFP awarded Construction RFP awarded Optronics RFI issued announcement Engineering RFP issued FONSI Sep 20, 2010 Jan 20, 2010 Application submitted Due Diligence begins Engineering RFP issued announcement Application work begins acceptance RHCPP PH RFP awarded Community college Contract signed RHCPP H RFP awarded GRNOC management software implementation RHCPP Hospital RFP response due New hire (16 since January 4)

  4. Special challenges • Various complaints about our processes • About our engineering RFP • About the selected engineering firm • Scrutiny related to selection of minority firms and hiring of individuals • Political attacks from ‘competitors’ • The ‘this is all new’ problem

  5. Risk

  6. New constituents (customers) with different expectations from their SPs • NTIA has some ideas about how we should behave (and we apparently agreed to them) • Much greater visibility – in lots of ways: • Politically • To regulators • To traditional SPs who consider us a threat

  7. Rules and regulations • E-rate is really important • What do you mean we might have to contribute to USF? • They are serious about this compliance stuff • FCC rules don’t necessarily support BTOP goals

  8. BTW – We’ve never done this before • Never owned a large fiber plant • Never had these compliance requirements • Never been this visible • Never had this many customers • Never had these customers

  9. How will this change MCNC? • Less flexibility to cut costs in hard times • More constituent groups to care for • Possible backlash from higher ed? • Dominance of internal processes by new constituents? • Will increased scale cause us to behave more like traditional carriers?

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