FRGP NLR I 2 Marla Meehl Manager of

FRGP – NLR/I 2 Marla Meehl Manager of the FRGP 3/4/08

NLR/Abilene Aggregation Level 3/DEN 6509 NLR Cisco 10 G DW 650 x or 7200 NLR Core Router 10 G DW Transit. Rail/ Frame. Net Packnet NLR/Denver 15808 Yellow = FRGP provides Purple = Utah provides Abilene Blue = NLR provides 10 G DW Utah Router Utah 650 X 10 G DW 7 10 G DW NLR/Ogden 15808 NLR/Ogden 15454 10 G DW NLR/Salt Lake City 15454 DW = Dedicated Wave

95 th Percentiles – 2/08 Provider 24 hr. I 24 hr. O Mon. I Mon. O Purchased Abilene (with Utah) 238. 8 299. 4 253. 6 325. 3 NLR Packet. Net 245. 5 455. 2 246. 4 425. 1 NLR Transit. Rail 1, 364 532. 7 1, 501 652. 2 1. 0 Gbps 10. 0 Gbps 2. 0 Gbps Akamai Cache Comcast ESnet Level 3 Qwest RMIX 1. 0 Gbps 250 Mbps 200 Mbps 1. 0 Gbps 127. 6 12. 2 12. 1 418. 2 165. 7 8. 1 31. 3 73. 3 28. 7 124. 6 130. 2 13. 9 190. 6 13. 8 51. 4 454. 5 204. 7 9. 1 43. 8 90. 9 33. 8 157. 3 154. 5 8. 7

NLR Current Costs/Services Packet. Net 10 Gbps Denver/SLC Wave 10 Gbps Frame. Net Sub-TOTAL NOAA-DC link 1 Gbps 43, 573 Does not include installation charges of $9500+27, 000 NOAA-Moscow link 1 Gbps 0 Shares 10 G Frame. Net port Transit. Rail 2 Gbps 200, 000 Shares 10 G Frame. Net port TOTAL 1, 000 1, 243, 573

I 2 Costs for FRGP I 2 Connect Fee - 1 Gbps Annual 250, 000 I 2 Member Fees for FRGP 352, 000 I 2 Participants Fees for FRGP 242, 000 I 2 SEGP - Utah 44, 000 Total 888, 000

FRGP I 2 Members Brigham Young University Colorado School of Mines Colorado State University Idaho State University Ithaka National Center for Atmospheric Research National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Boulder University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center University of Colorado, Boulder University of Northern Colorado University of Utah University of Wyoming Utah State University US Antarctic Program (USAP)

Total NLR/I 2 Costs $ 2, 131, 573. 00

NLR Going Forward • Currently requesting a one year commitment from each Class A & B member • FRGP conditions: Investor Status, Class A membership, Critical Mass of Class A & B members recommit (9 or 10 of 14 total)

NLR Future • Funded through 12/31/08 with current commitments (some expire 6/30/08 and some 6/30/09) • Erv Blythe (Chair of I 2 Bo. D) report to Network Policy Council (EDUCAUSE CIOs): – NLR has several future paths, ranging from the spectacularly rich and positive on the one extreme, to the folding of the endeavor on the other extreme • Expect one of the middle paths to prevail: – a major subset of the members continue to support the current model, including developing the capital to begin an upgrade of the infrastructure, or – a major player steps forward with the commitment of capital for a major upgrade, with new application requirements, and with new revenues to enable the subsidization and preservation of a significant, protected R&E part of an expanded infrastructure – Emphasized under any future scenario, expected an absolute commitment to maintaining control of the IRU's for the benefit of broad R&E and economic development interests – Stressed NLR’s desire to work in a complementary and non-competitive way with I 2 – Do not believe that either the NLR or the I 2 Boards would be willing to look again at merger in the next couple of years.

I 2/NLR Services • Provisioning for all services – NLR via owned fiber and hardware at marginal pricing – I 2 via leased Level 3 services at lower than Level 3 pricing • Layer 1 – 10 Gbps lambdas • NLR via owned fiber at marginal pricing • I 2 via leased Level 3 services at lower than Level 3 pricing • Both testing optical switching • Layer 2 – 1/10 Gbps VLANs

I 2/NLR Services Cont’d • Layer 3 – NLR members connect at 10 Gbps as part of $1 M fee • Back-up via Frame. Net as part of cost – I 2 connect at 1/10 Gbps per fee schedule • Back-up via 2 x 10 service via dynamic wave • Conditions of Use – None NLR – SEGP, Sponsored Participant, etc. on I 2

I 2/NLR Services Cont’d • Peering – NLR provides infrastructure for Transit. Rail • $200 K/year for Transit. Rail service at 2 Gbps – I 2 provides peering via Abilene connection • Not free in the sense that you may have to buy bigger pipe to support peering

Scenarios • Drop NLR/Transit. Rail and decouple from Utah • Drop I 2

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