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ENRON BROADBAND SERVICES

ENRON BROADBAND SERVICES. Broadband Capacity and Risk Management Products. Who is Enron Broadband Services?. Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Enron Corp. Began in 1996 as CLEC in Portland, OR - FirstPoint Communications - Subsidiary of Portland General Electric

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ENRON BROADBAND SERVICES

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  1. ENRON BROADBAND SERVICES Broadband Capacity and Risk Management Products

  2. Who is Enron Broadband Services? • Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Enron Corp. • Began in 1996 as CLEC in Portland, OR - FirstPoint Communications - Subsidiary of Portland General Electric • Enron Corp purchased PGE in 1997 • FirstPoint renamed Enron Communications in 1997 • Long Haul Build from Portland to LA with Touch America and Williams begins in 1997 (FTV) • Content Services, Carrier Services, Bandwidth Risk Management & Pooling Points begin development in 1998 • First Bandwidth Trade occurs in December 1999 • Enron Communications renamed Enron Broadband Services in 2000 • First Bandwidth Trade on Enron’s online trading platform - EnronOnline - May 2000

  3. Enron Broadband Services Enron Intelligent Network Bandwidth Intermediation Content Services Deploy the most open, efficient network with broad connectivity Be the world’s largest provider of premium broadband delivery services Be one of the world’s largest Buyers & Sellers of bandwidth • Fiber - Advanced Optics • Servers • Pooling Points • BOS • Trading • Risk Management • Structured Finance • Streaming Broadband Services • Data Asset Management • Distributed Content Delivery

  4. Trading - Physical PlatformFiber Network EBS is currently constructing a nationwide 17,000 Route Mile fiber network throughout North America. The network is approximately 75% complete

  5. Traditional Capacity • Enron Broadband Services is deploying the latest intelligent optical networking equipment on the fiber backbone that will allow for creation of traditional increments of bandwidth. Product offering will consist of DS3, OC3, OC12, OC48, OC192. • Intelligent network equipment will provide customers with next to real time provisioning of services and lower cost.

  6. Innovative New Products • EBS provides lambdas or wavelengths on an inter-city basis • DW-12 (OC-12) & DW-48 (OC-48) are available today! Routers, Switches and SONET gear can tap into and run over a single wavelength Applications include: - Rapid network expansion into new cities - Close a SONET ring or provide network diversity - Ultra low-cost transport for IP applications

  7. Provisioning • EBS will pre-provision local loops with CLECs and Carrier Hotels • Customer order is followed up with Firm Order Confirmation including CLLI Code of A and Z location and LOA CFA. • EBS commitment to real time provisioning will allow for end user satisfaction and superior end user product offerings.

  8. Customer Control • EBS is developing an on line provisioning and network availability system. • Existing customers will access a web page that will generate LOA CFA to on net locations within minutes. • Customers can focus on marketing their services instead of managing their capacity vendor.

  9. Initial On Net Routes • The West Coast Ring will include Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and LA. • The East Coast Ring will include LA, NY, Washington DC, Atlanta and Chicago • EBS holds inventory of additional routes throughout the country.

  10. Trading Foundation for Risk Management Services and New Product Development Trading of Bandwidth Enables Nimble Reconfiguration of Portfolios Establishment of Benchmark allows more effective Portfolio Management Enron Has Been the Primary Architect of Market Structures in Most Major Markets in Which It Participates

  11. Benefits of Bandwidth Trading • Real-time contracting and delivery of capacity at pooling points • EBS offers full accountability through bilateral capacity agreements • Carriers can fill in unfinished networks with short-term capacity

  12. Benefits of Bandwidth Trading • Network planners can buy redundancy at market rates and flexible terms. • Bandwidth users can now get more services in a real time fashion from multiple providers at one common location.

  13. Benefits of Bandwidth Trading • EBS offers products to reduce service costs and price risk. • “Improve and Extend” is one method we use to improve customer margins while demonstrating our superior quality of service. • Customers can be confident they are paying market prices and receiving maximum flexibility.

  14. Risk Management Summary EBS is becoming one of the world’s largest market makers of bandwidth • EBS brings financial flexibility to carriers, ISPs and enterprises with innovative risk management tools • EBS utilizes methods of physical delivery to bring more rapid provisioning and greater network flexibility • EBS has originators and business development personnel deployed worldwide

  15. In Conclusion... • With Enron capacity products customers can get next to real time delivery of services. • Enron capacity Products will provide customer control of network requirements and circuit information. • Enron network management and Intelligent Optical Network will provide customers with the most reliable services available in the industry today.

  16. In Conclusion... • Market sensitive pricing will provide long term margins. • Enron’s low cost services will allow your sales department to win sales and grow revenue for your company. • Enron’s narrow focus and independent strength will provide consistent performance to improve your overall operations.

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