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Our Client's Success In April 2021 the City of Waterloo extended EN's contract to begin Design, Engineering and Permitting activities for a 120-mile fiber-optic backbone identified in the Action Plan. This backbone will connect hundreds of City and Utility sites and will provide the necessary capacity to support a Fiber-to-the-Home deployment. EN engaged the City of Waterloo in 2020 to study the state of broadband throughout the community to gather and present information to assist City leadership in making informed decisions as it relates to deploying broadband citywide. The EN team developed supporting financial models presented multiple options to the City. Our team developed an implementation strategy and action plan for Waterloo, allowing the City to immediately begin making improvements to the community's broadband services. This plan will enable the City of Waterloo to also support retaining and attracting new businesses, improving residential and business broadband services all while making Waterloo a high-tech competitive community. The project's final report has been delivered and the City is moving forward with funding. Fiber Design and Construction Reference: City of Rancho Cucamonga, CA Contact Fred Lyn, Utility Division Manager Phone: 909.477.2740 ext. 4035 Email: fred.lyn@cityofrc.us Challenge City leadership recognizes that fiber-optic infrastructure is an important part of the Rancho Cucamonga community. They understand that in today's world, connectivity affects every aspect of the community -whether in municipal operations, public safety, education, healthcare, quality of life, entertainment and commerce. To realize leadership's vision, the City needed a partner that could develop and manage the expansion of fiber-based broadband across the City in a measured approach that achieved the City's financial constraints while expanding access in year-by-year deployments across the City. EN's Solution EN worked with the City to develop a fiber master plan and engineering assessment that laid out a multi-year plan for new aerial and underground fiber deployment throughout the City, totaling $12 million over 6 years. Since adopting the master plan in 2017, EN has designed and built the first three phases of the fiber to the premises network. In this work, we have provided full engineering, fielding, utility assessments, pole and make ready planning, construction prints and bid packages. We also manage construction as an owner's representative for the City in the fiber build, ensuring that the construction contractor meets our engineering specifications developed for the City, with tight quality control and within the budget. Our Client's Success Today, the City has connected neighborhoods and business corridors, enabling gigabit broadband services to residents and businesses across the City. Residential customers receive gigabit service for$69.99 per month, giving them nearly five times the bandwidth for a lower cost than is available in the market today. Businesses have competitively priced internet on City fiber that has replaced slow and unreliable DSL, and cable internet services. Page 12