Shaw Business Solutions Inc'

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Shaw Business Solutions Inc.

• Presented by Barry Goerzen
• December 7, 2006

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Agenda

• About Shaw Business Solutions
• Shaw Business Solutions WAN/MAN
• Internet Services
• Opportunities

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About Shaw Business Solutions

• Established in 2000 as Big Pipe Inc., by Shaw
  Communications
• Purpose was to provide IP transit services to
  Shaw and other large enterprises
• Shaw currently has over 1.3 million high-speed
  Internet users on the Shaw Business Solutions
  network
• Shaw Business Solutions customers include cable
  companies, ISPs, web-hosting providers,
  enterprises, and government and educational
  organizations

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Network Footprint
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Network Backbone

• Fibre Assets Long Haul
• 110,038 fibre strand kilometres
• 20 fibres on two diverse paths on cross-Canada
  routes
• DWDM network capable of 164 10G waves
• Currently we have four OC192s lit today
• ATM, SONET, and DWDM technologies

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Network Connectivity

• Metropolitan Gigabit Ethernet networks
• Direct connectivity to U.S., European, and Asian
  NAPs
• Over 800 peering connections
• Dedicated carrier services group
• Extensive relationships with other carriers
• Includes the multitude of hydro companies
  nationally
• Incumbent Local Exchange Carries

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Wide Area Metropolitan AreaNetworks

• Metropolitan Ethernet anywhere in North America
• Focus on fibre-optic-based service
• Copper-based service if fibre is expensive or not
  practical
• TDM and Ethernet
• 1 to 45 Mbps possible
• Wide Area Network
• 1 Mbps to OC192 (10 Gig) capable
• MPLS, TDM and Ethernet
• Deployed over SONET
• Fully protected
• National managed service offering
• Shaw cable modem layer 3 offering
• For smaller locations

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Our Internet

• High capacity
• Network capacity of over 130 Gbps
• Over 800 peering connections
• Service choices
• Local Access
• Ethernet 10, 100 or Gig E Mbps
• TDM available as well, T1 all the way up OC 192
  if you like
• Packages available
• Aggregate Billing
• Multi-location shared billing
• Usage Plans
• Flat rate
• Sustained
• Metered

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Opportunities for You

• Wide Area Network Metropolitan Area Network
• Customer who needs to get elsewhere? We can take
  you.
• Any location in North America, and select
  overseas locals
• White-label our services and offer to customers
  as a complete solution
• Large Internet backbone
• 1.3 million users of our cable modem service
• Direct access many millions more
• Peering and transit connectivity
• BGP at no charge as a standard component of our
  service
• Fibre-optic network offers the ability to
  interconnect
• Linking wireless hub sites together to create
  redundancy between wireless towers
• Use our hub sites to gain access to a region
• (rules governing access)
• White label the service and sell to your clients
• Agency relationships

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• Questions?