Establishing a Successful BTOP Partnership In Rural Southeast Ohio

1. Establishing a Successful BTOP Partnership In Rural Southeast Ohio Brice Bible, Chief Information Officer, Ohio University Bill McKell, President, Horizon Telcom Pankaj Shah, Executive Director, OARnet

2. Agenda • Ohio Higher Education/Government Network Provider Perspective • University Perspective • Carrier Perspective • Lessons Learned • Q & A

3. Advanced Regional Network Perspective Pankaj Shah, Executive Director, OARnet

4. “Expanding broadband to unservedand underserved Ohioans.”− Ohio Middle Mile Consortium

5. OARnet serves as the glue between the Ohio Middle Mile Consortium Partners. 5

6. OMMC Benefits for OARnet and Partners Universal Benefits

7. OMMC Benefits for OARnet and Partners Partner-Specific Benefits

8. Impact: OARnet’s Network Pre-ARRA Funding Post-ARRA Funding

9. Overall Funding Dynamics Total OMMC Projects

10. Ohio University Brice Bible, CIO

13. Ohio University and Southeast Ohio Broadband Growth • Video classrooms and the addition of high quality video services • IT service consolidation in Athens • LMS • Data Storage • Web Environments • Increased ERP usage (students and faculty) • Overall increase in I1 Consumption (all campuses) • Tech startups and economic development at all campuses • Shared telecommunications infrastructure

14. Ohio University’s Goals For the OMMC Program • Establish a world-class cyberinfrastructurein Southeast Ohio • Utilize the eight (8) major Ohio University campuses as anchor POPs • Fully integrate with OARnet for optimal statewide connectivity and redundancy • Ensure scalable capacity into the foreseeable future (10+ years)

15. Historic Data Circuit Capacity

16. Connecting Appalachia Bill McKell- CEO, Horizon Telcom

17. The Service Area

19. Lack of Access • 17,000 square miles • 58.9% without broadband

20. How Did WeGet Here? • Southern Ohio Health Care Network awarded FCC Rural Health Care Pilot funds in early 2007 • Congressman Space launches Connecting Appalachia Initiative in mid-2007 • NTIA Round 1 application filed in mid-2009, rejected due to insufficient match • Horizon steps-up for the region with 30% match for Round 2 proposal • OARnet forms OMMC, successfully settles turf issues among applicants and gains support from Governor Strickland • NTIA Round 2 Application filed in early-2010

21. Success! • Connecting Appalachia awarded August 18, 2010 • $95 million fiber-optic broadband project • $66 million covered from federal funds • $29 million match by Horizon • OARnet a sub-recipient

22. Impact • 1,950+ miles of fiber • DWDM backbone with ROADM • 1 Gbps Metro-Ethernet ports as standard distribution interface (with speed tiers) • 2.5 Gbps to 10 Gbps lambda services (higher speed in future years) • Higher Education • Laterals to 44 campuses • Additional OARnet rings • Expanded OARnet DWDM capacity • Additional CAIs • 231 K-12 buildings • 212 health care sites • 66 public safety locations • 34 industrial parks • 5 park lodges

23. Horizon Profile • 115-year history of serving rural Ohio • Big enough to handle the project • Nimble enough to be an innovative partner • State-of-the-art know-how • Pioneer in use of fiber-optics since the 1980’s • Horizon came forward to risk $29 million, demonstrating commitment to and faith in the future of rural Ohio

24. The Powerof Partnership Funding already from: Health Care Anchors (to Date) ARC Local Development Districts K-12 Information Technology Centers Higher Education (to Date) Plus 200+ health care facilities in the SOHCN Other Groups

25. Advantages of theConnecting Appalachia Network • It’s Our Region’s Network • Tailor-made to our needs • Unprecedented support • Key partnerships • Tremendous capacity because of fiber-optics • Resilient and reliable service because of rings

26. What’s Left to Doin Broadband • Last-Mile partnerships • Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) • Fiber-to-the-home initiatives • Local and county government opportunities to partner with Horizon

27. ImprovedConnectivity • Speeds and performance for virtualization across wide range of services • Physically diverse fiber feeds will deliver reliability • Supports consolidation of servers and services for regional campuses • Increases feasibility and range of shared services among universities • Enables continued expansion of OhioLink services

28. K-20 Collaboration • Ability to extend the K-20 vision will no longer be limited by bandwidth • K-12 ITCs are partners in project • Moving ITCs to new backbone will bring these K-12 hubs into OARnet at much higher speeds • At completion of project, all schools in the service area will have fiber connections • As ITCs move buildings to the new network, benefits will multiply

29. Enhanced Research • High capacity, low latency connectivity will support wide variety of research and simulation agendas • Improved connectivity with OARnet and Internet2 bring next generation speeds to Ohio researchers • Unified network supporting education, health care and businesses open avenues for regional investigations

30. Ohio University Lessons Learned • Establish Executive Sponsorship Early • Determine Balance Between Partnership and Competition and Get Buy-in to Approach

31. OARnet Lessons Learned • Planning

32. OMMC: Transforming Ohio’s Broadband Landscape ARRA Award Summaries Projected to Reach • Com Net, Inc. • Western Ohio • $30 million • 700 new miles of fiber • Horizon Telcom • Southern and eastern Ohio • $66.5 million • 1,960 new miles of fiber • OneCommunity • Northeastern Ohio • $44.8 million • 986 new miles of fiber • 3.6 million households • 534,000+ businesses • 83 private and public universities and colleges • 34 community colleges • 2,356 K-12 and career training centers • 1,300+ health care facilities • 2,200 state and local government offices • 1,500 public safety operations • 429 libraries • 207 industrial parks

33. Questions? Brice Bible CIO Ohio University bibleb@ohio.edu Pankaj Shah Executive Director OARnet pshah@oar.net Bill McKell President Horizon Telcom email