FRGP – NLR/I2 Marla Meehl Manager of the FRGP 3/4/08

7 NLR/Ogden NLR/Salt Lake City G DW DW = Dedicated Wave 10G DW Utah Router NLR/Denver G DW NLR/Abilene Aggregation Level3/DEN 6509 NLR Core Router Yellow = FRGP provides Purple = Utah provides Blue = NLR provides Utah 650X NLR/Ogden G DW NLR Cisco 650x or G DW Abilene 10G DW TransitRail/ FrameNet Packnet 10G DW

Provider24hrI24hrOMonIMonOPurchased Abilene (with Utah) Gbps NLR PacketNet Gbps NLR TransitRail 1, , Gbps Akamai Cache Gbps Comcast Gbps ESnet Gbps Level Mbps Qwest Mbps RMIX Gbps 95 th Percentiles – 2/08

NLR Current Costs/Services PacketNet10Gbps Denver/SLC Wave10Gbps FrameNet Sub-TOTAL 1,000,000 NOAA-DC link1Gbps43,573Does not include installation charges of $ ,000 NOAA-Moscow link 1Gbps0Shares 10G FrameNet port TransitRail2Gbps200,000Shares 10G FrameNet port TOTAL 1,243,573

I2 Costs for FRGPAnnual I2 Connect Fee - 1Gbps250,000 I2 Member Fees for FRGP352,000 I2 Participants Fees for FRGP242,000 I2 SEGP - Utah44,000 Total 888,000

FRGP I2 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/I2 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 I2 BoD) 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 I2 –Do not believe that either the NLR or the I2 Boards would be willing to look again at merger in the next couple of years.

I2/NLR Services Provisioning for all services –NLR via owned fiber and hardware at marginal pricing –I2 via leased Level3 services at lower than Level3 pricing Layer 1 –10Gbps lambdas NLR via owned fiber at marginal pricing I2 via leased Level3 services at lower than Level3 pricing Both testing optical switching Layer 2 –1/10Gbps VLANs

I2/NLR Services Cont’d Layer 3 –NLR members connect at 10Gbps as part of $1M fee Back-up via FrameNet as part of cost –I2 connect at 1/10Gbps per fee schedule Back-up via 2x10 service via dynamic wave Conditions of Use –None NLR –SEGP, Sponsored Participant, etc. on I2

I2/NLR Services Cont’d Peering –NLR provides infrastructure for TransitRail $200K/year for TransitRail service at 2Gbps –I2 provides peering via Abilene connection Not free in the sense that you may have to buy bigger pipe to support peering

Scenarios Drop NLR/TransitRail Drop NLR/TransitRail and decouple from Utah Drop I2

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