Alexander Welch1/27/2014

Merit Network

ISP

Professional Learning

MeritMail

Sample Products

FY 2013

19.5m revenue

19m expenses

● ~17m normal yearly expenses● ~2m investment

– Cyber range + R&D

Financial Info

1966

– Michigan, MSU, Wayne State1987

– 39m NSFNET

1997

– Internet 2 Created

History

2009 – Round 1 Stimulus 41m total 33m federal

2010 – Round 2 Stimulus 100m total 80m federal

Summer 2013 – Round 1 finished

Spring 2014 – Round 2 finished

2013 – Cyber Range founded

What's hot?

Michigan Fiber

Secret Sauce

Cyber Civilian Corp

Story

Comcast

Charter

AT&T

Frontier

Competition

Gains from infrastructure growth

Cyber Range

Cloud Service

What's Next?