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Table of Contents Communication Technologies Inc. • Company Overview • Manassas BPL Network • COMTek’s BPL Vision Broadband Over Power Lines Walt Adams Vice President, New Technologies Communication Technologies Inc. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 1 2 Company Overview The City of Manassas • • • • • • • • • • COMTek owns and operates the Manassas BPL network franchise • Manassas is the first city-wide deployment of BPL in the United States • COMTek also owns wireless ISP networks and terrestrial transport networks that use wireless, satellite, copper, and fiber optic media, serving 20+ countries COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 30 miles Southwest of Our Nation’s Capital Population of 36,000 10 Square Mile City 15,000 Electric Meters 12,470 Volt Distribution 80% Underground 1,965 Transformers 2,200 Hand Boxes 7.5 Customers per Transformer COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 3 Manassas Deployment Areas 4 BPL Architecture in Manassas A RE A 201 AREA 203A AR E A 204 A R EA 203B AREA 205 A R EA 202 W E EM S E .S . A RE A 402 HAYD ON E.S . AR E A 301A AREA 102 A RE A 104 AREA 101 A RE A 301B A R EA 403A A R EA 403C A R EA 403B A D M I N I ST R A T I O N BU I L D I NG AREA 105 A D M I NI S T RA T I ON B U I L D IN G AREA 302 AR E A 305 O S B O U R N H .S . B A L D W IN E .S . AREA 304A A R EA 401 AREA 303 R O U N D E .S . AREA 304B COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 5 6 1 BPL Equipment Installation Manassas BPL Network Current State • 7,000+ homes and businesses now have access to BPL – Expanded network to pass 5,000 additional homes and businesses in the past 60 days • On schedule to pass all 15,000 homes and businesses by end of April • 500 to 800 KB residential service for $28.95/month • 500 KB to 2.5 MB commercial service ($39.95 to $119.95/month) • Over 300 subscribers • Achieving 10% market share quickly as we open new areas • In the areas we serve, approximately 1 out of every 4 broadband subscribers is a COMTek BPL customer COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 7 8 Manassas Service Offerings City Benefits • • • • • • COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. Leverage Existing Electric Infrastructure Improve Quality of Life Economic Development Enhance Response to Power Outages Foundation for Utility Applications Fiber Extensions are Multi-purpose COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 9 Subscriber Speeds Current State of BPL Industry 1Q05 2Q05 3Q05 4Q05 1Q06 10 We Have Implemented WiFi Hot Spots 2Q06 0.5 to 2.5 MB 4 to 6 MB 10+ MB COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 11 12 2 We Have Implemented VoIP We Have Implemented Remote Meter Reading • Five successful BPL trials of VoIP • Kazaa, Vonage, Primus, Level(3), Packet8 • Compressed vs. uncompressed platforms • Commercial offering anticipated COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 13 We Have Implemented Traffic Signal Automation 14 We Have Implemented Video Monitoring COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 15 We Have Implemented Infrastructure Surveillance 16 The Potential of BPL • Capital goes into service delivery not obtaining rights • Competitive Cost (G2 technology) – $75 to pass a building/house – $175 success based capital – $40 to $150 Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) to serve a building/house • 10% market penetration within first few months (Manassas, Allentown, and Cincinnati) • G3 technologies of 100MB+ in late 2005 • Convergence of voice, video, and data • Rapid market acceptance • Competitive with existing telecom technologies • Rapid ubiquity in moderate to high density areas • No disputes regarding ownership of wires COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 17 18 3 COMTek’s Perspective on BPL COMTek’s Perspective on BPL The negatives: The positives: • Exciting last mile solution • Competitive “cost to pass” and “cost to serve” versus other technologies (DSL, Cable, WiFi, Fiber) • Leverages strong customer service reputation of power providers • Low cost to operate • Enables numerous value added services • Rapidly deployable • Simple architecture • High “sizzle factor” with customers • Ability to provide ubiquitous service • User installable after core network is deployed • Virtually no truck rolls • Not suitable for low density areas at current price points • Strong (stable) vendors will emerge in 2005 • No technical standards • Regulatory uncertainty at state level • Each electric grid has unique signal transmission characteristics – Electric grids are “noisy” environments • No mass market pricing / economies • Business model doesn’t work in all cases COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 19 20 Contact Information Walt Adams Vice President New Technologies (703) 961-9080 [email protected] Communication Technologies 14151 Newbrook Drive Suite 400 Chantilly, VA 20151 (703) 961-1330 Fax Unused Slides COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 21 Future Applications Video Entertainment 22 Future Applications Power Monitoring • Monitor load currents or temperature of conductors in electrical lines • Autonomous operation of electrical equipment SeaChange™ by SeaChange International, Inc. • Full motion HDTV programming competing with cable and satellite television delivered via BPL access networks COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 23 Image of Airak, Inc. Optical Transducer 24 4 Future Applications Cable Fault Location Future Applications School Attendance Tracking • BPL is starting to be used by school systems in Germany and Israel to enable tracking of student attendance • BPL may be used to locate underground cable faults and to predict future faults MapIt™ Fault Distance Monitor Example Circuit Map Viewer Interfac By Remote Monitoring Systems, Inc. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. Modular Management System by Computer Resources, LLC COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 25 Future Applications Remote Medical Diagnostics • Jacksonville Electric Authority and the Nemours Clinic are trialing BPL enablement of remote patient and medical monitoring 26 Future Applications Vehicle Location Systems • Vehicle location systems will be enabled by wireless stations distributed throughout the BPL network HealthSourceONE by Strela Development SmartFleet by Space Machine, Inc. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. COMTek © 2005. Company proprietary and confidential. May not be reproduced without written permission from COMTek. 27 28 5