Integrys Communications Network

In response to your request, WMP is providing a base technology solution that meets your needs and can be deployed, funded, and built today, while leaving room for further investigation and vetting of additional emerging technologies.

In the following response, the WMP team has identified a holistic, flexible solution that includes:

• A direct path to deployment
• A backbone network design
• Three potential options to meet the needs of the last mile solution for the project

These options have varying levels of risk and costs associated with them, but are each viable depending on the outcome of the final engineering and design work to be completed with Integrys personnel during the first phase of the project.

WMP’s proposal is engineered around a broadband network with 40 backbone towers providing bandwidth strategically placed around the 10,000 square mile territory and feeding a multipoint network that will bring bandwidth to 1060 fixed endpoints for service centers, generation, substations, gas gates, distributed generation, TWACS backhaul and AMI DCUs. With the option to utilize LTE to facilitate most of these fixed points and well as enable mobile data to 640 vehicles throughout the territory.

The proposed team of solution architects will work with your team to select the best components of our proposed solution that meet the core requirements while further enabling the maximum business case benefits. The diagram below is a summary of the proposed deployment process. It represents how the project will move forward with the backbone network design and deployment while the WMP and vendor teams work with Integrys to develop, test, validate, and select from the optional solutions for the multipoint and mobility networks:

Figure 1 - Proposed Deployment Process

As depicted in the diagram, WMP is proposing a solution that meets your needs today. We are also providing additional options that could be utilized pending further review and vetting by the project team in 2012 after pending changes in FCC regulations and Federal laws are resolved in the very near future.

By the time the backbone network is completed, the team will have a clear path to the last mile and mobility solution that will best meet the requirements while staying within the budget established in the business case. If none of the optional evolving technologies are deemed to be technically and/or financially viable, the combined Point to Multipoint (PtMP) solution from Motorola and Freewave will be deployed to provide connectivity to the last mile locations (Substations, Gas Gates, Distributed Generation, and DCU’s).