1. From FTTX to Fiber Everywhere
Mountain Connect 2017
Heather Gold, President & CEO

3. FTTH: incredible growth in North America
United States
North America
30.4 Million Homes Marketed
16% Growth in 2016
13.7 Million Homes Connected
41.5 Million Homes Marketed
18% Growth
16.6 Million Homes Connected

4. United States FTTH Deployment

5. Like the internet, fiber has changed

7. An Innovation Revolution, driven by fiber

8. Economic Development: Fiber’s Killer App
Ten Year Gross Metropolitan Product:
64% Better For FTTH Cities
Ten Year Job Impact:
72% Better For FTTH Cities
Better Year New Business Formation:
46% Better For FTTH Cities

9. New employer attraction
Local experts see fiber impact
On Local Job and GNP Growth
88%
85%
77%
52%
New employer attraction
Employer expansion
Employer retention
Home based businesses
Based on a survey of local economic experts, policymakers. RVA, LLC for Fiber Broadband Association, May 2017

10. Mounting evidence says: fiber is a big add
MDUs
MDU residents are willing to pay 2.8 percent more to purchase a condo or apartment with access to fiber optic service. Renters are willing to pay a premium of 8 percent (based on a $1000 monthly rent) for access to fiber.
GDP
A 2014 study found higher per capita GDP (1.1%) in communities where gigabit Internet was available. Fiber communities enjoyed approximately $1.4 billion in additional GDP over other similarly situated communities.
Home Values
Access to fiber may increase a home’s value by up to 3.1 percent.

11. FTTH creates real estate value
Value of amenities to single family home

12. FTTH creates real estate value
Value of amenities to MDU home

13. Now: Fiber Feeds the Innovation Economy
Smart Cities
From electrical grid management to traffic management.
5G Next Gen Services
Streaming Video
Enhanced mobile broadband, machine communication, ultra-reliable
Video accounts for 70% of internet traffic – and growing
Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
Computing, hosted servers, storage and backup need to move terabytes of data, quickly
50 billion connected devices by 2020; hundreds in each home
The industry is driving fiber deeper and deeper into networks to support the way we work, play and live now.

14. Cloud computing needs big bandwidth
Cloud computing performance depends on the internet connection – for both the front end and back end. More than 1 Exabyte of data is stored in the cloud, and as bandwidth requirements increase, fiber will be the only technology that can support the necessary network architectures.
Without enough bandwidth, cloud computing would be impossible.
Cloud computing includes IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) as layers of services. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service): Allows you access to storage and computer power through a web-based system. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are accurate examples of IaaS. PaaS (Platform as a Service): It gives developers the tools to build and host web applications. [APPRENDA is an example] SaaS (Software as a Service): The applications are accessible from various client devices through a client interface, such as a web browser. [Salesforce, Google Apps are examples]

15. Streaming Video will continue to explode
consumer internet video traffic will grow at a CAGR of 26% between 2015 and 2020
3.1X
percent North America’s consumer internet video traffic grew in 2015
36%
minutes (830,048 years) of video content will cross the Internet each month in 2020
436 B
in North America, percent of all consumer internet traffic that will be video by 2020
85%

16. FTTH creates community value
Importance of factors when moving

17. Smart Cities need smart infrastructure
Smart Health
Sensor
Network
Smart Mobility
Smart Grid
City
Wi-Fi
Energy Efficiency
Healthier Cities
Civic IoT
Safer Streets
Connected Community
EPB in Chattanooga built out a fiber network to reliably manage its energy and electrical systems
Hiawatha Broadband in Minnesota piloting project to use its fiber as a platform for home monitoring of patients with dimentia
US Ignite and cities around the U.S. (and the world) are developing a smart city app store predicated on big bandwidth
Verizon and the City of Boston are using sensors and advanced traffic signal controls to measure traffic, improve safety
Santa Monica City Net provides fiber-supported Wi-Fi to its residents in public places

18. If you do NOT get a fiber backbone for your city, it may well trigger a new generation of economic distress. Quoting once again: "Fiber networks are seen by many as one of the most important infrastructure developments of the 21st century.”
Jesse Berst: Smart City Council
Senior managers in state and local government, survey by the Governing Exchange:
70% believe fiber networks should be considered a public good that government regulates and sometimes runs, similar to water, sewer and other utility services.
Fiber backhaul can be a middle-mile network within the smart city ecosystem. High-bandwidth links between different parts of the city can serve as conduits for shorter cable runs to traffic lights, municipal buildings, surveillance cameras and similar assets.

19. Speed, performance of 5G needs fiber
Enhanced Mobile Broadband
Ultra-reliable,
low latency communication
avg. + peak channel capacity
total network capacity
ubiquitous availability
high mobility, fast handover
high reliability
guaranteed availability
low latency
5G is expected to deliver more than 10 Gbps speed, massive connectivity for countless IoT devices, high speed mobility to deliver reliable, seamless connectivity to users even when they are traveling in high-speed train, bus or car. Ultra low latency is very critical for self-driving connected cars, remote robotic surgery in healthcare, industrial automation systems and big data transfer between the data source and destination.
A recent report from IHS Markit suggests that fiber will play very important role in both front and backhaul of 5G networks. For a high-frequency 5G spectrum to cover high connection density and high speed mobility, mobile service providers need to deploy several thousands of towers, base stations and radio heads much closer to users and devices while all these cellular towers and base stations need to be connected with future-proof high speed optical fiber networks.
Base stations are being deployed closer and closer for 3G to 4G/4GAdvanced to 5G at separation from 10km to 2 km and further to 0.5km.
5G will also be a good opportunity for cable operators as fiber is necessary to meet targeted requirements of 5G with higher capacity and coverage, better signal integrity, low latency and reliability. The cost of fiber deployment is relatively high; however wireless operators need to invest heavily in the fiberization of cellular infrastructure to support future-proof and reliable capacity requirements.
Massive Machine to Machine
Communication
huge amounts of devices scarce short messages
random, connectionless
low power, low cost

20. Stepping stones to 5G, paved with fiber
Femto cell
Stepping stones to 5G, paved with fiber
Network Densification
Micro cell
Pico cell
Cisco estimates small cells will have increased 11-fold between 2013 and 2018.
Backhaul
Small cells need expanded backhaul capabilities. As in other places in the network, fiber is the backhaul solution.
Metro cell
Mobile Providers in Need
A report from Strategy& says providers with the largest installed base of fiber will win the day.

21. 5G Fiber needs
The ITU-T defined 5G base station requirements to be 20 Gbps download and 10 Gbps upload. This can only be realized through fiber-based networks.
5G will deliver more than 10 Gbps speed, connectivity for IoT devices, high speed mobility.
Ultra low latency is critical for self-driving connected cars, remote robotic surgery, industrial automation and big data transfer.
As shown on next slide – requires massive new fiber deployment for coverage

22. Densification requires much more fiber 3G
1 site every 10 km
Cell density=1 cell/100 km2 4G
1 site every 2km
Cell density= 5 x 5
= 25 cells/100 km2
To go from 3G to 4G require 25X more fiber 5G
1 site for every 0.5 km
Cell density= 20 x 20
= 400 cells
To go to 5G requires at least 16X more fiber

23. Bandwidth deluge from IoT to be fiber fed1 5
Wearables
Healthcare
Fitness Trackers, Smartwatches, VR Headsets, Headphones, Health Trackers, Wearable Cameras, Smart Clothing
At Home care, Remote Monitoring, Post-surgery Analytics and Diagnosis, Health Information Technology 2 6
Energy
Manufacturing
Active Energy Management, Wind, Solar, Hydroelectric, Oil & Gas, Grid Management
Process Control, Maintenance, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Asset Location, Smart Agriculture & Farming 3 7
Intelligent shopping
Security & Public Safety
These days it seems that just about everything is getting smarter, from thermostats to refrigerators to factories, and becoming ever-more connected. Each of these devices — physical objects with data sensing, analyzing, and recording functions plus the ability to communicate remotely — collectively form the “Internet of Things” (IoT), one of the latest buzz phrases in all areas of technology.
Estimates put the number of these devices, in all applications, at 3.8 billion in use today, with growth projected to between 25 and 50 billion by 2020 and a market size of $19 trillion.
Clearly, expansion in the use of smart devices is an unstoppable force, but one thing could hamper this growth — inadequate bandwidth.
While most of the devices that comprise the IoT communicate wirelessly with the world, all the data that they send must be transmitted over a physical network between wireless access points. In the average home, for instance, each of the thermostats, cameras, appliances, and even “Dash buttons” must use the home’s internet connection to send the data which makes them so useful. In instances where integrated AV and home control systems are also installed, the amount of data travelling through the home network via the internet is exploding, and as with any highway, when the amount of traffic increases dramatically, the speed of travel decreases just as noticeably.
So what form of connectivity can provide the data superhighway that the IoT depends on to keep accelerating?
Only fiber optic cables can deliver the bandwidth and reliability required to form the backbone of the IoT. The highest performance classes of copper-based cables currently used throughout the AV market, Cat7, can transmit 40 gigabytes of data for distances of 30 m; fiber optic cables can currently send up to 100 gigs over 10 kilometers, with unlimited potential bandwidth growth in the future. With the number of devices that need to send and receive data increasing exponentially, only fiber optic cables offer the current performance and future-proof potential required to create networks capable of handling the data communications tsunami created by the IoT.
Supply Chain Control, NFC Payments. Games, Smart Restocking and Rotation
Video Surveillance, Access Control, Radiation Monitoring, Other Hazards 4 8
Home automation
Connected car
Smart Home Management, Energy, Water, Security, Climate Control
Fleet Management, Asset Tracking, Infotainment

24. Fiber optic sensing uses laser interrogation of fiber optic cable to remotely and instantaneously detect pipeline leaks, vehicle traffic, human traffic, digging activity, seismic activity, unsafe temperatures, loss of structural integrity, and other conditions and activities.
On a constant basis, fiber optic sensing accurately pinpoints the location of events from miles away.
Fiber Optic Sensing

25. Average Rating: Deployment Challenges
What keeps there from being More Fiber:
Average Rating: Deployment Challenges
Lower numbers equal greater importance

26. Rural areas, FTTH availability is lowest, but share is highest
15%
Availability
63%
Average
Take Rate
26%
Availability
43%
Average
Take Rate
30%
Availability
50%
Average
Take Rate

27. Fiber Broadband Association on the issues

28. Fiber Broadband Association educates consumers

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30. A Day Made of Glass

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