FISPA Simmering Summer Service Provider Summit 2012

June 18-20, 2012Atlanta, GA

Hunter NewbyCEO & Founder - Allied Fiber

Founder – The Dark Fiber Community

FISPA’s Simmering Service Provider Summit in Hotlanta 2012

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

What America (and Every County) Needs is a Dark Fiber Plan to address:

- Rural Broadband

- Distributed Cloud

-Wireless Backhaul

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

The State of Rural Broadband in America

A Solution for Rural Broadband

• 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

The State of the Distributed Cloud

A Solution for the Distributed Cloud

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

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

A Solution for Wireless Backhaul

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

Dark Fiber Community Members Include:

To join the Dark Fiber Community, email info@alliedfiber.com

Questions?

Thank You

Hunter Newby CEO

Allied Fiber