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1 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. ABC11.com - Raleigh/Durham Page 1 of 3 Enter search phrase Eyewitness News Weather Video & Photos Community Information from the links below is distributed by companies featured through PR Newswire. Neither PR Newswire nor ABC can confirm the accuracy of the content. Not for Profit MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." 11/5/2010

2 ABC11.com - Raleigh/Durham Page 2 of 3 MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) /5/2010

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4 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. Stock Market Information Page 1 of 2 SUBSCRIBE: Print Electronic (PDF) Manage NEWSLETTERS SPECIAL OFFERS RSS MOBILE PLACE ADS ADVERTISE N.I.E. CONTACT US thestate.com archives Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH NEWS SPORTS BUSINESS LIVING WEEKEND OPINIONS PHOTOS VIDEOS OBITS SHOP CLASSIFIEDS HOMES JOBS CARS PLACE AD Markets Stocks Mutual Funds & ETF's Sectors Rates Tools The news you want delivered to your ! Get the PM Headlines Newsletter Overview Market News Market Videos Currencies International Treasury & Bonds SIGN IN BECOME A MEMBER Enter Symbol or Keywords Get Quote Search InvestCenter Recent Quotes My Watchlist Top Indices MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Thursday November 04, :45 PM EDT PRNewsWire News Releases Released By MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative Share: Rating: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and directfiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. Quick Job Search Enter Keyword(s): Select a State: South Carolina Advanced Job Search Search by Category The State Top Jobs» Enter a City: Columbia US-SC-Columbia Sales Professional JD Byrider of Columbia US SC Columbia» See More Top Jobs Select a Category: All Job Categories Director of Account Services Campus Entertainment US-SC-Columbia Asphalt Paving Superintendent/Foreman Banks Construction Company US-SC-North Charleston Receptionist Manchester Farms, the nations largest producers "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where 11/5/2010

5 Stock Market Information Page 2 of 2 North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobaccodependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) SOURCE MCNC Print this story this story Download PDF Stock Market XML and JSON Data API provided by FinancialContent Services, Inc. Nasdaq quotes delayed at least 15 minutes, all others at least 20 minutes. By accessing this page, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Conference calls info supplied by OpenCompany Fundamental data supplied by Morningstar Stock quotes supplied by Telekurs USA 11/5/2010

6 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - CHARLESTON, SC NEWS - LIVE 5 WCSC Brea... Page 1 of 3 MEMBER CENTER: Create Account Log In SITE SEARCH WEB SEARCH BY Go Contests Job Link Local Biz Network Ask the Pro Lottery Get Coupons Power to Save Clean Hands Campaign HOME WEATHER NEWS SPORTS TRAFFIC TRACKER VIDEO CAMPAIGN 2010 MY5 CONTACT LIVE 5 HEALTHWATCH LIFESTYLE Share Print Text Size MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Recommend Be the first of your friends to recommend this. Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley- Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will Advertisement Do Not Buy Car Insurance! 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7 MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - CHARLESTON, SC NEWS - LIVE 5 WCSC Brea... Page 2 of 3 benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e- NC, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved. All content Copyright WorldNow and WCSC, a Raycom Media Station. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. 11/5/2010

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9 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WECT TV6 - WECT.com - Wilmington, NC news... Page 1 of 2 << Back MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middlemile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its 11/5/2010

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11 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WCWG 20 - Greensboro CW Page 1 of 2 << Back MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) 11/5/2010

12 MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WCWG 20 - Greensboro CW Page 2 of MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved. All content Copyright WorldNow and WCWG. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. 11/5/2010

13 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WMBFNews.com Myrtle Beach/Florence, SC N... Page 1 of 1 << Back Just Pay Half Best of the Grand Strand Pet of the Week Talkin' Trash Legal Access Lottery Real Estate Job Link Obituaries MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and lastmile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved. All content Copyright WorldNow and WMBF, a Raycom Media Station. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. 11/5/2010

14 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WMBFNews.com Myrtle Beach/Florence, SC N... Page 1 of 1 << Back Just Pay Half Best of the Grand Strand Pet of the Week Talkin' Trash Legal Access Lottery Real Estate Job Link Obituaries MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and lastmile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved. All content Copyright WorldNow and WMBF, a Raycom Media Station. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. 11/5/2010

15 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for C... Page 1 of 2 MEMBER CENTER: Create Account Log In SITE SEARCH WEB SEARCH BY Go Newcomers' Guide Coupons Health Connections Obituaries Energy Tips Real Estate Jobs Web Extras Mobile Twitter/Facebook HOME NEWS WEATHER TRAFFIC ON YOUR SIDE SEE, CLICK, FIX YOUR PHOTOS SPORTS CONTESTS ON TV COMMUNITY ABOUT US LIFESTYLE Share Print Text Size MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Recommend Be the first of your friends to recommend this. Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. From the Associated Press Sparky Anderson dies at ton pot tunnel busted in SD Yemen bomb nearly went off Domino's $31,000/hour job Today's Top News The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and directfiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space 11/5/2010

16 MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for C... Page 2 of 2 online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobaccodependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved. Portland : you're getting ripped off by your insurer unless you follow this trick to cheap rates Advertisement Portland : Mom discovers $5 wrinkle trick. Dermatologists are SCARED you will learn this secret. Maine State Law now allows residents in credit card debt to legally remove up to 70% of debt! Portland : Discover the wrinkle erasing secret that doctors don't want you knowing! Can't sleep? A new, allnatural supplement is helping people fall asleep faster and sleep all night. New state credit laws allow consumers to legally reduce debt up to 60% All content Copyright WorldNow and WBTV, a Raycom Media Station. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. 11/5/2010

17 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina Page 1 of 2 << Back Health Alert HealthNOW SeniorsNOW BizNOW Job Link Real Estate WIS Wheels Obituaries Midlands Marketplace MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) /5/2010

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19 Source Website SOURCE: Triangle Business Journal (Raleigh Durham, NC) AUDIENCE: 139,941 [provided by Nielsen//NetRatings] DATE: HEADLINE: MCNC Selects Kimley Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI MCNC Selects Kimley Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI PR Newswire RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.,Nov. 4, 2010/PRNewswire USNewswire/ MCNC today announced that Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc.has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle mile fiber infrastructure and direct fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private sector 1

20 partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K 20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K 12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e NC, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley Horn Kimley Horn and Associates is a 1,500 person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years,and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News Record. Kimley Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K 20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System,Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit 2

21 About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K 12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) Source: MCNC Back to Press Releases Index The information on this page is provided by PR Newswire. All rights reserved. Reproduction or redistribution of this content without prior written consent from PR Newswire is strictly prohibited.national is not responsible for this content. PR Toolkit powered by PR Newswire See your news in Bizjournals & other media. How?Distribute your Release through PR Newswire.For a limited time, get a 1 Year Membership to PR Newswire FREE of charge.find OUT MORE (c) 2010 American City Business Journals, Inc.and its licensors. All rights reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of bizjournals. Use of, or registration on, this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. Highlights: NC, NORTH CAROLINA, North_Carolina, MCNC, N.C, Golden LEAF, Rural Broadband Initiative, Broadband Technologies Opportunities, BTOP, North Carolina, North Carolina, Research and Education Network, NCREN, mcnc.org 3

22 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WSFX FOX 26 News at Ten Wilmington, NC - Page 1 of 2 << Back MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form privatesector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN 11/5/2010

23 MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WSFX FOX 26 News at Ten Wilmington, NC - Page 2 of 2 The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved. All content Copyright WorldNow and WSFX. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. 11/5/2010

24 Source Website SOURCE: Business Journal Charlotte (NC) AUDIENCE: 64,906 [provided by Nielsen//NetRatings] DATE: HEADLINE: MCNC Selects Kimley Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI MCNC Selects Kimley Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI PR Newswire RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.,Nov. 4, 2010/PRNewswire USNewswire/ MCNC today announced that Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc.has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle mile fiber infrastructure and direct fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private sector 1

25 partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K 20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K 12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e NC, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley Horn Kimley Horn and Associates is a 1,500 person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years,and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News Record. Kimley Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K 20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System,Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit 2

26 About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K 12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) Source: MCNC The information on this page is provided by PR Newswire. All rights reserved. Reproduction or redistribution of this content without prior written consent from PR Newswire is strictly prohibited.national is not responsible for this content. PR Toolkit powered by PR Newswire See your news in Bizjournals & other media. How?Distribute your Release through PR Newswire.For a limited time, get a 1 Year Membership to PR Newswire FREE of charge.find OUT MORE (c) 2010 American City Business Journals, Inc.and its licensors. All rights reserved. Highlights: NC, NORTH CAROLINA, North_Carolina, MCNC, N.C, Golden LEAF, Rural Broadband Initiative, Broadband Technologies Opportunities, BTOP, North Carolina, North Carolina, Research and Education Network, NCREN, mcnc.org 3

27 Source Website SOURCE: Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area (Greensboro,NC) AUDIENCE: 22,527 [provided by Nielsen//NetRatings] DATE: HEADLINE: MCNC Selects Kimley Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI MCNC Selects Kimley Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI PR Newswire RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.,Nov. 4, 2010/PRNewswire USNewswire/ MCNC today announced that Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc.has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle mile fiber infrastructure and direct fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private sector 1

28 partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K 20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K 12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e NC, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley Horn Kimley Horn and Associates is a 1,500 person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years,and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News Record. Kimley Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K 20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System,Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit 2

29 About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K 12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) Source: MCNC The information on this page is provided by PR Newswire. All rights reserved. Reproduction or redistribution of this content without prior written consent from PR Newswire is strictly prohibited.national is not responsible for this content. PR Toolkit powered by PR Newswire See your news in Bizjournals & other media. How?Distribute your Release through PR Newswire.For a limited time, get a 1 Year Membership to PR Newswire FREE of charge.find OUT MORE (c) 2010 American City Business Journals, Inc.and its licensors. All rights reserved. Highlights: NC, NORTH CAROLINA, North_Carolina, MCNC, N.C, Golden LEAF, Rural Broadband Initiative, Broadband Technologies Opportunities, BTOP, North Carolina, North Carolina, Research and Education Network, NCREN, mcnc.org 3

30 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WCIV-TV: News, Weather and Sports for Charlest... Page 1 of 2 << Back MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. SOURCE MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced 11/5/2010

31 MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI - WCIV-TV: News, Weather and Sports for Charlest... Page 2 of 2 communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved. All content Copyright WorldNow and WCIV. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. 11/5/2010

32 Source Website SOURCE: Charlotte (NC) Observer AUDIENCE: 629,572 [provided by Nielsen//NetRatings] DATE: HEADLINE: MCNC Selects Kimley Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI MCNC Selects Kimley Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Thursday November 04, :45 PM EDT PRNewsWire News Releases Released By MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.,Nov. 4, 2010/PRNewswire USNewswire/ MCNC today announced that Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc.has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle mile fiber infrastructure and direct fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the 1

33 progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K 20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K 12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e NC, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley Horn Kimley Horn and Associates is a 1,500 person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years,and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News Record. Kimley Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K 20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System,Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit 2

34 About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K 12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) Source: MCNC Highlights: NC, NORTH CAROLINA, MCNC, Golden LEAF, Rural Broadband Initiative, N.C, Broadband Technologies Opportunities, BTOP, North Carolina, North Carolina, Research and Education Network, NCREN, mcnc.org 3

35 Source Website SOURCE: Raleigh (NC) News & Observer AUDIENCE: 504,441 [provided by Nielsen//NetRatings] DATE: HEADLINE: MCNC Selects Kimley Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.,Nov. 4, 2010/PRNewswire USNewswire/ MCNC today announced that Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc.has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle mile fiber infrastructure and direct fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K 20 education institutions. This project includes more than a 1

36 thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K 12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e NC, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley Horn Kimley Horn and Associates is a 1,500 person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years,and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News Record. Kimley Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K 20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System,Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K 12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century 2

37 learning by providing a future proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) Source: MCNC function scanbody () { document.fcon.loadlibrarycallback('hoverquote', function() { }); } settimeout("scanbody()",50); Highlights: NC, NORTH CAROLINA, MCNC, Golden LEAF, Rural Broadband Initiative, N.C, Broadband Technologies Opportunities, BTOP, North Carolina, North Carolina, Research and Education Network, NCREN, mcnc.org 3

38 In searching the publicly accessible web, we found a webpage of interest and provide a snapshot of it below. Please be advised that this page, and any images or links in it, may have changed since we created this snapshot. For your convenience, we provide a hyperlink to the current webpage as part of our service. Stock Market Information Stocks and Bonds :: WRAL.com Page 1 of 3 2:22 p.m Currently Next 3 Days 7 Day Forecast Triangle 411 Autos Classifieds Jobs Real Estate Shop WRAL Mobile Facebook Twitter Home News Traffic Weather Sports Business 5 On Your Side Health & Life Entertainment WRAL-TV Out & About GOLO Local Tech Wire Market Summary Local Stocks My Watchlist Tax Guide Calculators WRAL.com 30 Markets Stocks Mutual Funds & ETF's Sectors Rates Tools Overview Market News Market Videos Currencies International Treasury & Bonds Enter Symbol or Keywords GET QUOTE Search InvestCenter Recent Quotes My Watchlist Top Indices MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI Thursday November 04, :45 PM EDT PRNewsWire News Releases Released By MCNC This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) Share: Rating: and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K- 12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or ADVERTISEMENT Have retirement plans? Put your home equity to use Get life insurance fast with no health exam Do you qualify for a credit card debt bailout? 11/5/2010

39 Stock Market Information Stocks and Bonds :: WRAL.com Page 2 of 3 through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) FAQ Contact Us Advertise Tools RSS Feeds Alerts Privacy Policy Terms Of Use Site Map Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. SOURCE MCNC Print this story this story Download PDF Stock Market XML and JSON Data API provided by FinancialContent Services, Inc. Nasdaq quotes delayed at least 15 minutes, all others at least 20 minutes. By accessing this page, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Conference calls info supplied by OpenCompany Fundamental data supplied by Morningstar Stock quotes supplied by Telekurs USA Links We Like 7 Famous Haunted Houses All over the world there are haunted houses where generations of people have documented creepy happenings. More Details Mortgage APRs Hit 3.25% If you owe less than Details $729,000 on your mortgage, you probably qualify for the President's Home Refi Program. Qualify now. More Healthy Recipes For A Happy Stomach Feeling bloated or uncomfortable after eating? Try these five recipes and find out why they are so good for digestion. More Details Drivers Fail To Get Their Best Discounts If you haven t had a DUI, you are paying too much for auto insurance. Calculate your new payment. More Details 11/5/2010

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"As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. 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44 IT News Online > - - MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Desig of 3 11/8/2010 8:32 AM Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Ads by Google Engineering Jobs Fiber Optic North Carolina Broadband Plans Higher Education Simplified Communications for Very Small Businesses Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. Service For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. Intel Server About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortunefor the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. Realplayer Nokia Linux About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit Google America Ericsson Virus protection Click here Developed About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. Enhanced Person About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) SOURCE MCNC

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46 Kimley-Horn to design broadband network Triangle Business Journal 1 of 1 11/8/2010 8:37 AM This Was Printed From Triangle Business Journal Kimley-Horn to design broadband network Triangle Business Journal Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 10:03am EDT Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. has won a $6.5 million contract from MCNC to provide engineering design services for the Golden Leaf Rural Broadband Initiative. The initiative, which is administered by Research Triangle Park-based nonprofit MCNC, is designed to build out high speed Internet access across rural and under-served portions of North Carolina. It takes its name from the Golden Leaf Foundation, which is providing some of the funding for the initiative. Kimley-Horn is a Cary-based engineering firm that employs 1,500 people, including about 150 in the Triangle. Golden Leaf is a nonprofit organization established in 1999 to help distribute the state s share of a national settlement with tobacco companies. The foundation works to spur economic development in areas whose economies previously relied heavily on the production of tobacco. The entire broadband initiative will cost about $106 million. The U.S. Department of Commerce is providing nearly $76 million in funding for it, while Golden Leaf is contributing another $24 million. The rest of the money comes from various sources, including the MCNC endowment and donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others.

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48 MCNC picks Raleigh engineering firm for $6.5M broadband project :: Edi of 1 11/8/2010 8:31 AM Posted Nov. 5, 2010 at 7:11 a.m. Local Tech Wire MCNC picks Raleigh engineering firm for $6.5M broadband project MCNC broadband project Image 1 of 3 Next Image By Local Tech Wire RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. Kimley-Horn and Associates will provide the engineering design and environmental assessments for the expansion of the North Carolina Research and Education Network. MCNC announced the Raleigh-based firm as the winner of the $6.5 million contract on Thursday. NCREN will be expanded across North Carolina with $106 million in funding from federal grants, private sector partners, a $24 million grant from the Golden LEAF economic development group, and MCNC s own resources. MCNC already has awarded contracts for the first phase of the NCREN expansion. The contract is the first one awarded for the project which MCNC calls the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative. Kimley-Horn will help design and study the environmental impact of the 1,200 mile project. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state, said Tommy Jacobson, vice president of network infrastructure initiatives for MCNC. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." The first phase of NCREN expansion will cost $40 million with $28.2 million coming from federal grants. For more information about the NCREN projects, visit here. Get the latest news alerts: Follow LTW at Twitter. Copyright 2010 Local Tech Wire. All rights reserved. Tags: Broadband, Internet, MCNC Editor s Blog The latest blog posts from our Local Tech Wire and WRAL editors.

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50 MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI of 3 11/8/2010 8:32 AM MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI PR Newswire RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service this Share on Facebook First openly gay bishop to retire after strain of backlash providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than d d f ili

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52 North Carolina Technology News from NCTechNews -- Biotech, Pharmac of 3 11/8/2010 8:36 AM North Carolina's Technology News Source Member, Online News Association & Society of Professional Journalists Home About NCTechNews Add Your News Item NC Resources Guide Newsletter Engineering Megafirm Gets $6.5 Million in Taxpayer Dollars for Rural Broadband November 05, 2010 By: NCTechNews Category: Broadband (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) MCNC has announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 through the U.S. Department of Commerce s National Telecommunications and Information Administration s (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state, said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. We re excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state. Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation s top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. It s significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project, said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form privatesector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas.

53 North Carolina Technology News from NCTechNews -- Biotech, Pharmac of 3 11/8/2010 8:36 AM MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state s K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP s Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC s Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC s awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state s rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC s BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina s K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina s education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation s first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina s economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina s funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobaccodependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and nonprofits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888)

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The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form private-sector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. 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Technology Today Technology News Sections Technology News by Region Technology News by Country Technology News by U.S. State Requests for Proposals and other announcements associated with GLRBI are forthcoming. Both of MCNC's awards are a part of a coordinated strategy developed by the Office of the Governor, the N.C. Office of Economic Recovery & Investment and e-nc, the state's rural broadband authority, to improve broadband access for businesses and residents in underserved areas. Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. 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58 MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI 1 of 1 11/8/2010 8:35 AM MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI PR Newswire This is the first contract awarded for the $106 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC today announced that Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has been selected for Engineering Design Services and Environmental Assessments relating to the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). The total contract is estimated at $6.5 million. The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. MCNC issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Sept. 9 with bids closing on Oct. 4. The RFP sought to identify an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of approximately 1,200 miles of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to 170 community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) through the GLRBI. "The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs

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The GLRBI is a $106 million broadband infrastructure project that on Aug. 18 received $75.75 million through the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and a $24 million matching grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. An additional $6.55 million in match was raised from the MCNC endowment, donations of land from individual community colleges, universities and others, and a donation of already-installed conduit in northeastern North Carolina from the Albemarle Pamlico Economic Development Corporation. Top Stories Obama supports India on UN Security Council Many flee Indonesia volcano amid fears of eruption Murkowski on cusp of win; how will she legislate? 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"The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative through MCNC will open doors to distance learning and other economic growth opportunities for citizens in rural areas across the state," said Mark Wilson, chairman and CEO at Kimley-Horn. "We're excited about the opportunity to put our expertise to work on such an important project for our home state." Kimley-Horn and Associates, headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the nation's top design engineering and planning firms. The firm has six offices in North Carolina. The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina. "It's significant that as MCNC begins to construct the 400 miles of fiber included in our first BTOP award that we also announce the first contract related to the GLRBI. We are pleased to begin the planning process for the GLRBI with Kimley-Horn being selected to lead the design and the environmental portion of the project," said Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Vice President of Network Infrastructure Initiatives. "As we build on the progress we have made this year, this second round project will be a significant step in serving the broadband needs of our community anchor institutions in rural areas of the state. We hope to form privatesector partnerships so that the benefits of this infrastructure can be extended to businesses and consumers in these rural areas." MCNC will use the GLRBI award to further expand the existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In its operation of NCREN, MCNC currently serves the backbone Intranet and Internet network needs of almost all of the state's K-20 education institutions. This project includes more than a thousand miles of new fiber throughout 69 counties that will ensure K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, university hospitals and other CAIs will have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth now and into the future. Consumers and small businesses along the fiber build also will be reached with enhanced broadband service through wholesale and last-mile commercial telecommunications and cable providers with whom MCNC has and is forming partnerships. Prior to the GLRBI award, MCNC received $28.2 million through BTOP's Round 1 phase in January to fund the engineering and construction of approximately 400 miles of new fiber to expand the optical footprint of NCREN in southeastern and western North Carolina. MCNC raised $11.7 million in matching funds for its successful Round 1 application through private sources, including $4 million from the MCNC endowment, making the total project a $40 million investment in broadband infrastructure. No state tax dollars were used to fund this project. The GLRBI builds on MCNC's Round 1 BTOP award to where North Carolina now will benefit from more than $140 million to expand high-speed connectivity in rural unserved and underserved portions of the state. sponsored links Stock Market Pick - GLSO American Solar Energy. Tradking, Investment Stocks. Hot Stock Pick - RMGX Why investors consider this company the next MAJOR TECH stock! Mortgage Rates Hit 2.67%! 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Once all work is complete, the two rounds of BTOP infrastructure have the potential to serve directly, or through MCNC partnerships with private-sector service providers, more than 1,500 anchor institutions, 180,000 businesses, and reach more than 300,000 underserved families. For more information regarding all of MCNC's BTOP activities, visit MCNC/BTOP Central Web Space online. About Kimley-Horn

60 MCNC Selects Kimley-Horn for Engineering Design Services for GLRBI of 3 11/8/2010 8:33 AM Kimley-Horn and Associates is a 1,500-person firm headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., with over 60 offices nationwide. The firm has been listed among the top 100 Best Firms to Work For by Fortune for the last six years, and is ranked among the top 20 pure design firms in the nation by Engineering News-Record. Kimley-Horn provides planning and design consulting services related to transportation and technology, aviation, the environment, land development, transit, urban planning/landscape architecture, energy, and water resources. About MCNC MCNC is an independent, non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. MCNC provides advanced communications technologies and support services that enable access to 21st century learning applications and offers the opportunity to improve teaching, learning, research and collaboration among North Carolina's education community. For a quarter century, the 501c3 non-profit organization, MCNC, has operated a robust, secure, exclusive communications network that has connected the institutions of the University of North Carolina System, Duke University and Wake Forest University to each other and through advanced research networks such as Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, to the world. Visit Education Recession-Proof Your Future See how education can help you secure a stable career. Degrees Hiring Managers Want Get the skinny on the degrees HR managers want. Go now! ADVERTISEMENT About NCREN The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's first statewide education and research networks. It provides broadband communications technology services and support to K-12 school districts, higher education campuses and academic research institutions across North Carolina. MCNC offers the NCREN network, technology tools and services to guarantee equal access to 21st century learning by providing a future-proof technology network that is the foundation for change and innovation in our educational systems. It creates possibility and provides an equitable educational experience throughout the state. About the Golden LEAF Foundation The Golden LEAF Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobaccodependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state. The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and non-profits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,003 grants worth over $471 million since its inception. To learn more about applying for a grant, visit or call (888) MCNC Communications Hotline: +1 (919) SOURCE MCNC Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook Buzz up! 0 votes Share tweet 0 Print Editor's Picks More Slideshows» Dramatic forced landing for superjumbo jet 2010 Midterm Elections Tea Party Photo Highlight of the Day More... Politics Video: Kahuku's Lawsuit Will Go Against DOE, OIA, HHSAA KITV Honolulu Politics Video: Obama greeted with grandeur in India AP Politics Video: Gates, Obama urge repeal of military's gay ban AP There are no comments yet Post a Comment Sign in to post a comment, or Sign up for a free account. Ask America Ask America blog Results map Video: Fast Fix Y! exclusives The Upshot

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