Design Nine,

Design Nine offers a comprehensive array of broadband and Gigabit network services, including early phase planning, network architecture and design, and network construction oversight and project management. Design Nine is one of a very few firms in the United States with experience in the design, construction, and operation of multi-service open access broadband networks. We have designed and built more open access, multi-service networks than any other firm in North America. We are currently working in five states and the Caribbean on fiber and wireless projects, and our wholly owned subsidiary, WideOpen Networks, is now providing network operations and management services. Design Nine projects have included the award-winning nDanville municipal open network, The Wired Road open access network, New Hampshire FastRoads, Rockbridge Area Network Authority network, the City of Eagan, Minnesota open access network, and over a hundred other planning efforts for communities in more than twenty states. The senior leadership of Design Nine has extensive, hands-on experience designing and managing telecommunications and broadband systems. Design Nine, Inc. is a Virginia corporation with its main office in the Corporate Research Center in Blacksburg, Virginia. Design Nine has satellite offices in Keene, New Hampshire and Knoxville, Tennessee.