October 10, 2011 On Trac, Inc. represented at the 2011 FTTH Conference & Expo in Orlando

The Fiber to the Home Council of North America celebrated a highly successful 10-year anniversary by putting on the largest and most attended industry gathering to date. Nearly 2,000 industry executives converged on the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort from September 26 – 29 for America’s largest trade show dedicated to FTTH products and services. This year’s Conference theme was “Lighting the Economy” and featured speakers and sessions discussing the critical role all-fiber networks will play in spurring economic recovery and business growth. This annual conference attracts representatives from many of the nearly 800 telecommunications companies and other broadband entities that provide fiber to the home services – which are now available to more than 20 percent of North American households – as well as from FTTH equipment manufacturers and engineering firms that build all-fiber networks. On Trac, Inc. was well represented at the Conference through key FTTH Council leadership in Mike Hill (FTTH Council Chair) and Joseph Jones (Chair, Conference Planning Committee). Company attendees also included Monte Hill, Arthur (Bud) Mull, Mark Tichenor, and Brad Slipher. The team experienced dozens of workshops and keynote presentations, as well as panel discussions on MDU solutions and Smart Grid applications. On Trac assisted in organizing a panel session on successful fiber deployments and how those networks have promoted local economic growth. Several key customers of On Trac were in attendance and provided good networking time with these good folks. Customers in attendance include Clarksville Department of Electricity, Guadalupe Valley Telephone Cooperative, Lafayette Utility Systems, Bristol Virginia Essential Services, and Atlantic Engineering Group. The week proved successful for On Trac, Inc. in exposure to potential customers, current customer networking, insights on new/refined products, and good instruction from industry leaders and experts.

(ORLANDO, FL) – With the theme “Lighting the Economy,” the 2011 Fiber to the Home Conference & Expo opened today in Orlando, with conference-goers setting their sights on demonstrating the critical role all-fiber networks will play in spurring economic recovery and business growth.

Nearly 2,000 industry executives converged on Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort for the start of the three-day event, which includes dozens of learning sessions and industry panels, as well as North America's largest trade show dedicated to exhibiting FTTH products and services. Conference organizers said that despite the lagging economy, attendance numbers will likely equal or exceed last year’s strong turnout, while all available space in the exhibit hall, the North American FTTH industry’s largest, has been sold out for weeks.

“Although it may not be the best of times for the overall economy, the robust turnout at this year’s FTTH conference reflects an enormous interest in next-generation connectivity as an engine of growth,” said Kyle Hollifield, Vice President Marketing and Business Development for BVU Authority and the Chairman of this year’s event.

The conference attracts representatives from many of the nearly 800

The event features an EXPO Hall with 130 companies showing the latest in FTTH technologies, products and services, as well as a special "Fiber Zone," where more than a dozen companies will be giving live, hands-on demonstrations of ultra high-bandwidth services, applications and equipment. Visitors will be able to experience live services, hands-on activities and interactive product demonstrations that showcase services best facilitated by FTTH, including high definition IPTV and 3D-TV, home networking technologies, high-def videoconferencing, telemedicine, smart-meters and other green technologies in home energy management, multiplayer online gaming, and FTTH delivery systems - GPON, GE-PON, Point-to-Point, WDM-PON and Active Ethernet systems with indoor and outdoor ONT's.

The keynote address will be delivered on Thursday by Virginia P. Ruesterholz, executive vice president of Verizon and president of Verizon Services Operations (VSO), a global, shared-services business group that operates Verizon's wireline network. Ruesterholz had previously served as president of Verizon Telecom, where she led the company's rollout of its FiOS fiber to the home service. Verizon is now the largest North American FTTH network operator, providing advanced and innovative broadband experiences to more than four million U.S. households and ranking as the seventh largest provider of subscription video services in the country.

On Friday, a panel discussion on broadband policy and regulation will feature Blair Levin, who was executive director of the National Broadband Plan at the Federal Communications Commission and now leads Gig.U, an initiative to bring super-fast Internet connections to communities where America's leading research universities are located. Also joining that panel is Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media

Counsel for Google Inc., who will discuss his company's efforts to promote the development of all-fiber networks, including the gigabit-enabled service that Google is building in the Kansas City area.

In addition, leaders from across the FTTH industry will share their knowledge about FTTH technologies, deployment techniques, operations and business practices in a series of panel discussions that include Large Carrier Perspectives, MDU Considerations, Marketing in a Broadband Applications Driven World and Lighting the Economy.

For the third year, the FTTH Conference & Expo will offer learning sessions, conducted in Spanish, aimed at fiber to the home opportunities in Latin America. These will coincide with a meeting of the FTTH Council's Latin American Chapter in Orlando during the week of the conference.

AT&T, Corning and Viamedia are the Platinum Sponsors for the 2011 FTTH Conference & Expo.