FISPA Simmering Summer Service Provider Summit 2012 June 18-20, 2012 Atlanta, GA Hunter Newby

1. FISPA Simmering Summer Service Provider Summit 2012 June 18-20, 2012 Atlanta, GA Hunter Newby CEO & Founder - Allied Fiber Founder – The Dark Fiber Community FISPA’s Simmering Service Provider Summit in Hotlanta 2012

2. Current State of the USA & World • Situation Not Great • USA – Credit Downgrade, Unemployment, Flat “Growth” • Europe – Euro Disaster, Austerity, Civil Unrest • Asia – Mixed; following China verses rest of world • What We All Need • Productivity! It is not just about jobs • GDP Growth is the Key • GOV only knows INFLATATION • What Increases Productivity? Mobility + Broadband • Economic Development! – fueled by an investment in fiber

3. What America (and Every County) Needs is a Dark Fiber Plan to address: • Rural Broadband • Distributed Cloud • Wireless Backhaul

4. The State of Rural Broadband in America • ARRA US Broadband Stimulus: • Highlighted and proved there is a broadband problem in America • Lacked a real Plan • Failed to solve the issue • The Conclusion: • There remains a serious need for dark fiber access to/from tier 3-4 markets to open up the economic potential

5. A Solution for Rural Broadband

6. The State of the Distributed Cloud • Distributed means – Spread Around • How can computing be spread around? • Modular/Container Data Centers • Outside of the major peering points • Load Balancing • Modular - easy to scale • Mobile - easy to shift and locate where • inexpensive / abundant power exist • ALL data centers need access to inexpensive and abundant Power and DARK FIBER

7. A Solution for the Distributed Cloud

8. The State of Mobile/Wireless Network Growth & FTTT • Verizon has committed to deploying fiber Ethernet to 90% of the cell sites in its territory by the end of 2013 • Verizon has connected more than 1000 cell sites with fiber Ethernet services – as of Q409 (VZ has 23,000 total cell sites as of Q409) • In 3Q09, AT&T Mobility indicated that it deployed 100,000 additional cellular backhaul circuits to deal with the increased mobile data usage pressure on its network • -Atlantic ACM • Fiber reaches less than 16% of the more than 250,000 cell towers in North America • Those towers are growing at an average rate of about 18,000 per year – New Paradigm Resources Group

9. Industry Network Growth Projections • - Cisco indicates that North American Mobile Data Traffic will grow by a CAGR of 129 percent from 2008 to 2013 • - Oppenheimer estimates that the number of cell sites in the U.S. will grow by a CAGR of 4.9 percent from 2008 to 2012 – (from 250,000) • - Bottom Line – EVERYTHING IS EXPANDING • - There needs to be a real network plan to meet demand

10. A Solution for Wireless Backhaul

11. The Dark Fiber Community -Over 125 Members -Online directory for network operators, provides information and contact details for industry-leading vendors as well as the opportunity to plan one-on-one meetings - Members include: Equipment Vendors, Infrastructure Builders, Financing Companies, Carrier Services and Industry Associations -Website receives over 275,000 page views per month - Member benefits – inclusion in newsletter, social media, article placement, press release/industry news coverage, ads, event sponsorships

12. Dark Fiber Community Members Include: To join the Dark Fiber Community, email info@alliedfiber.com

13. Questions? Thank You Hunter Newby CEO Allied Fiber