# Presentation: 393769

## Attacking the Last Mile

- Wesley K. Kaplow
- Chief Technology Officer
- Qwest Government Systems
- wesley.kaplow@qwest.com
- 703-363-3963

**Notes:**
Qwest Mission
Qwest is looking for market leadership in the IP space for managed business, IP Applications, and we're using our advanced network and managed care platform as the foundation upon which we can deliver leading IP-enabled applications.
Explosive IP growth continues - the web hosting market continues on a trajectory of 100%+ annual growth, dedicated internet access annual growth is greater than 100%.  Ecommerce continues to spike as well - total commerce revenue online has grown from $8B to $28B over the last 3 years; holiday ecommerce tripled year over year. (source IDC)
As customer networks become more mission critical and need to be externalized to reach customers, partners and vendors - outsourcing options become much more attractive.  Speed to market and shortened return on investment are the business drivers.
That's what we're about, and everything you'll see, as this presentation moves along, is intended to fulfill that mission. 

## Global construction leads to...

**3.4 Million Fiber Miles**

**Global construction leads to...**

**...unprecedented capacity growth**

**Notes:**
Global Success: The Qwest Story 
The history of Qwest is now the story of two companies -- one in business for more than a hundred years, the other a new breed of communications provider just five years old. Together they have created a company with the size, technologies and products to help customers meet the exploding demands -- and possibilities -- of broadband communications. 
Qwest began in 1995 when SP telecom, a subsidiary of Southern Pacific Railroad, combined with Qwest Corporation, a small Dallas-based digital microwave firm. Realizing early on that the Internet would create unseen demands that existing networks couldn't possibly meet, Qwest set out to build a whole new kind of network -- faster, more flexible and more robust than any network on earth. Today, the Qwest Macro Capacity ® Fiber Network contains the world's most advanced optical networking equipment and reaches 104,000 miles around the world. 
A team of experienced, aggressive communications executives came together under the leadership of AT&T veteran Joe Nacchio to build not just a new-generation network, but also a full array of Internet-based applications, services and management that would help customers use the new broadband technologies to maximum advantage. 
In 2000, Qwest took a big step up in size and reach with the acquisition of U S WEST, the Denver-based 120-year old telecom giant that served 14 states throughout the West. The acquisition added the size and scale today's market demands of any top competitor, and a slate of advanced technologies -- such as leadership in Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services, advanced frame relay, the country's largest Web-based yellow pages, PCS wireless and a network that features more than 99 percent digital switching. 
The combination of Qwest and U S WEST in 2000 created a $19 billion global giant with leadership in network technology, as well as applications and services. Its advanced fiber optic networks link directly to nearly 30 million customers through more than 2.6 million miles of fiber in the U.S. The company also has a rapidly growing presence in Europe through an alliance with the Dutch telecom company, KPN, and a foothold in Asia through a new Asia-Pacific office and interests in the US-Japan Cable project. 
The combination of technologies, applications and experience moves Qwest to a place solidly among the leaders in Internet and Web services. 
While the story is far from complete, Qwest is well on its way to achieving the goal that has driven it for five years: customer-focused market leadership in worldwide broadband communications and applications services. 

## Expanding Worldwide Broadband Network

- Direct Connectivity to 250 Cities Worldwide

**Notes:**
Worldwide Broadband IP network.   
The domestic network is completed and operational.
 Our overseas links into Europe were made possible through our partnership with KPNQwest and our purchase of EUnet to give us IP connectivity
 And then heading out of California into the PAC Rim, our links provide global services.  
This is our footprint, it's in place today. 
 It's 3.4 million fiber miles.  These are not futures, this is up and provides direct connectivity to 250 cities worldwide.   
It is not a construction play.  We started that project three years ago, and now we're deploying foundational services and applications on top of this network.  So we have a significant global footprint.

## Network Transport Capability

**Notes:**

Access Solutions
I'm mentioning a lot of wide area bandwidth, and, certainly it's significant to have the horsepower in the wide area.  However, we certainly realize that speed can be limited by a slow access speed.

We are embarking on a multi-prong strategy to make sure that our customers can get to our network through a high-speed on-ramp regardless of the protocol that they're trying to use, so that they can have an high-speed solution, and really – this is delivering the power -- the power of broadband, all the potential that our network can bring.

## Emerging Local Access Solutions

- Qwest
- POP

- Qwest
- POP

- ILEC CO
-  Qwest
- collocation

- DSL
- Provider
- Hub

** ****DSL circuits**

**Fixed Wireless**

**ILEC**
**Special Access**

**Qwest Local Broadband Network**

**Qwest Backbone**** **

- Qwest Data and
- IP Backbone

**Qwest On-Net**
** ****buildings**

**Qwest Near-Net**
** ****buildings**

**Notes:**
VPN
If our Internet backbone can be used as a wide area network solution, it leads us into the virtual private network or VPN space.
 Two things happen in the VPN space.  You need to provide security, and you need to guarantee authenticity. How do you do this?
 One way is a network-based VPN, where the security devices and controls are deployed in the network and you access them through our dedicated Internet access product directly.  We manage that.  It's a managed VPN solution.
Another deployment would be deploying a managed firewall solution to the customer premise to provide authentication as well as security.  Those services are out and available today and are currently being utilized by our customers.

## Deployment of Qwest Local Broadband

- 2000 cities

- 2001 cities

**Notes:**
VPN
If our Internet backbone can be used as a wide area network solution, it leads us into the virtual private network or VPN space.
 Two things happen in the VPN space.  You need to provide security, and you need to guarantee authenticity. How do you do this?
 One way is a network-based VPN, where the security devices and controls are deployed in the network and you access them through our dedicated Internet access product directly.  We manage that.  It's a managed VPN solution.
Another deployment would be deploying a managed firewall solution to the customer premise to provide authentication as well as security.  Those services are out and available today and are currently being utilized by our customers.

## Back to the Future...

**Transmitting articulate speech over a beam of light.**
**Prof. A. G. Bell’s Patent No. 235199**
**Dec. 7 - 1880**

**Notes:**
VPN
If our Internet backbone can be used as a wide area network solution, it leads us into the virtual private network or VPN space.
 Two things happen in the VPN space.  You need to provide security, and you need to guarantee authenticity. How do you do this?
 One way is a network-based VPN, where the security devices and controls are deployed in the network and you access them through our dedicated Internet access product directly.  We manage that.  It's a managed VPN solution.
Another deployment would be deploying a managed firewall solution to the customer premise to provide authentication as well as security.  Those services are out and available today and are currently being utilized by our customers.

##  Free Space Optical Links

-  Free Space Optical Links

- FlightSpectrum from LightPointe
- Up to 1.25 Gbps
- Up to 4000 meters
- 30 lbs
- 20 Watts

**Notes:**
VPN
If our Internet backbone can be used as a wide area network solution, it leads us into the virtual private network or VPN space.
 Two things happen in the VPN space.  You need to provide security, and you need to guarantee authenticity. How do you do this?
 One way is a network-based VPN, where the security devices and controls are deployed in the network and you access them through our dedicated Internet access product directly.  We manage that.  It's a managed VPN solution.
Another deployment would be deploying a managed firewall solution to the customer premise to provide authentication as well as security.  Those services are out and available today and are currently being utilized by our customers.

##  National Science Foundation

-  National Science Foundation

- FlightSpectrum
- 125 Meters link distance
- OC-12
- 622 Mbps
- Seamless integration into existing terrestrial fiber network

**Notes:**
VPN
If our Internet backbone can be used as a wide area network solution, it leads us into the virtual private network or VPN space.
 Two things happen in the VPN space.  You need to provide security, and you need to guarantee authenticity. How do you do this?
 One way is a network-based VPN, where the security devices and controls are deployed in the network and you access them through our dedicated Internet access product directly.  We manage that.  It's a managed VPN solution.
Another deployment would be deploying a managed firewall solution to the customer premise to provide authentication as well as security.  Those services are out and available today and are currently being utilized by our customers.

##  Weather Effects

-  Weather Effects

- System Link Margin
- Greater than 30 dB
- Rain
- 1”/hour = 7 dB/km
- Fog
- Loss can be as much as 30 dB/km
- For the NSF Link
- 0.125 km so a 4”/hour rain is less than 1 dB of loss
- Fog visibility would have to be less than 0.1 km (or less than approximately 300 ft)
- The expected link availability for this system exceeds 99.99% based on historical weather data

**Notes:**
VPN
If our Internet backbone can be used as a wide area network solution, it leads us into the virtual private network or VPN space.
 Two things happen in the VPN space.  You need to provide security, and you need to guarantee authenticity. How do you do this?
 One way is a network-based VPN, where the security devices and controls are deployed in the network and you access them through our dedicated Internet access product directly.  We manage that.  It's a managed VPN solution.
Another deployment would be deploying a managed firewall solution to the customer premise to provide authentication as well as security.  Those services are out and available today and are currently being utilized by our customers.

## Biological and Other Effects

- Fried Birds?
- 3.9 mW total optical output power
- -38 dBm receiver sensitivity
- Focused over four beams
- Reduces energy density
- Reduces the likelihood of beam interruption
- Blind Employees?
- Laser Class 1 Eye-Safe
- Improved Service to Customers
- Lower cost “CLEC”-type pricing
- Elimination of an over $500,000 dig
- Faster implementation
- No pesky municipal permits required!

**Notes:**
VPN
If our Internet backbone can be used as a wide area network solution, it leads us into the virtual private network or VPN space.
 Two things happen in the VPN space.  You need to provide security, and you need to guarantee authenticity. How do you do this?
 One way is a network-based VPN, where the security devices and controls are deployed in the network and you access them through our dedicated Internet access product directly.  We manage that.  It's a managed VPN solution.
Another deployment would be deploying a managed firewall solution to the customer premise to provide authentication as well as security.  Those services are out and available today and are currently being utilized by our customers.