Q3 2019

      
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Welcome

Welcome to the current installation of the Bluebird Network quarterly newsletter. In each newsletter we bring you the latest updates about Bluebird activities, industry news and upcoming events. We encourage you to check out the information provided within this newsletter, click on the article links, visit our website (simply “click” on the menu tabs above) and share our newsletters with others who may benefit from our information. As a reminder, Bluebird Network has recently been acquired; please visit BluebirdNetwork.com for more information. We thank all our members and customers for their continued support and wish you the best of luck in the coming quarter!

Michael Morey,
President and CEO


An Overview of Bluebird Network

Bluebird Network is a Midwest telecommunications company that provides an efficient and fast fiber-optic network to rural and urban customers throughout the Midwest. Bluebird Network focuses on combining cutting-edge technology and the brightest individuals to deliver high-speed broadband and Internet services, and secure data storage solutions to Enterprise, Carrier and Data Center customers throughout Missouri, Illinois and the surrounding states. Our data center, the Bluebird Underground Data Center located in Springfield, Missouri, is an underground colocation facility that offers hardware and equipment protection from natural and unnatural disasters. For our customers, our services translate to quality, continuity, and performance. At Bluebird Network, we understand that success is all about good connections.

BLUEBIRD NEWS
Bluebird Network Expands Fiber Network Through Acquisition by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
Enterprise, Carrier and Wireless Operator Customers Benefit from Immediate Midwest Fiber Expansion and Accelerated Growth Trajectory

COLUMBIA, MISSOURI — Bluebird Network is excited to announce that Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP) has completed its acquisition of the company. Through MIPs acquisition, Bluebird will increase its fiber footprint even further, providing greater access to existing customers and reaching out to new service areas. Bluebird remains committed to maintaining its personalized level of service while gaining the capacity to increase the scope of its operations.

The transaction provides Bluebird an immediate 2,500 fiber route mile expansion into Illinois, including the cities of Rockford, Peoria, Bloomington, Normal and the Quad Cities area. Future network builds are planned to connect more communities and achieve greater fiber densification. In addition, the company’s underground colocation facility, the Bluebird Underground Data Center, located in Springfield, Missouri, is undergoing a second major expansion to increase power and available space for customers.


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Frequently Asked Questions about Acquisition by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners

What are the details of the acquisition?
Bluebird Network, LLC (“Bluebird”), is excited to announce the close of its acquisition by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (“Macquarie”), a fund managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, one of the world’s leading alternative asset managers. Through this acquisition, Bluebird increased its fiber footprint even further, providing greater access to existing customers and reaching out to new service areas. The transaction provides Bluebird an immediate 2,500 fiber route mile expansion into Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, including the cities of Rockford, Peoria, Bloomington, Normal and the Quad Cities area. Included in this transaction, Bluebird will be acquiring existing customers from Uniti Midwest.

Bluebird remains committed to maintaining its personalized level of service while increasing the scope of its operations. This acquisition strengthens the company’s promise to best serve its customers, providing businesses and communities access to robust, flexible, high-speed transport and internet services.


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Bluebird Network Adopts Data Driven Sales Prospecting with Connected2Fiber’s Market Explorer Capability


BOSTON, MA — Connected2Fiber, the Industry Cloud for Connectivity, announces today that Bluebird Network has signed an agreement to extend their use of The Connected World platform by signing up for the company’s Market Explorer capability. Bluebird Network is an existing client and utilizing many of the platform’s capabilities, including Building List Manager, which automates the process of developing a comprehensive building list and sending it to trusted partners.

Market Explorer will help Bluebird extend its data-driven approach to go-to-market activities by serving as an application that leverages Connected2Fiber’s authoritative location insight to help more effectively prospect sales territories. The easy-to-use application enables users to dynamically define search parameters for a set of locations within any given market. The attributes displayed span data about the location itself, networks that service the building (or buildings close by), and tenants within the building.


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UNDERGROUND UPDATES
Compute and Storage Infrastructure Built for Uptime: Any Building Starts with the Foundation

In an always-on technological world, one vital component for success is a data center with reliable uptime. Finding a facility that delivers robust and uninterrupted availability can be a challenge, but knowing exactly what characteristics to look for is the key to locating an ideal data center.

The most important attribute of a data center is uptime. Merriam-Webster defines uptime as “time during which a piece of equipment (i.e. a computer) is functioning or able to function.” Alternatively, downtime is the time when equipment is non-functioning or unable to function. Downtime is costly to a company’s bottom-line and reputation. In fact, nine seconds of “lights out” can easily translate to 24 to 48 hours of downtime by the time operating and database systems are fully restored.


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BEHIND THE BETWORK
Bluebird Network is one of the top telecom providers in the Midwest, but maintaining that status can be more difficult than it seems. Staying on top of available and emerging technologies to support core Ethernet, IP and transport services is key to agile growth and meeting customer requirements at any given time. Bluebird Network can not be reactive to trending growth and the new technologies that support current generation services. Instead Bluebird must employs a methodical cycle of forecast-budget-build that allows the company to have network resources available in real-time or near real-time for the services we offer. At times this means building network infrastructure and capacity that may seem excessive for the market, however when done correctly, that capacity is consumed by customer services within a year’s timeframe and the forecast-budget-build cycle continues on perpetually.
CARRIER COLUMN
MTIA Appoints Bluebird Network CEO Michael Morey as
Chairman of the Board


The Missouri Telecommunications Industry Association Is The Premier Public Policy Forum Serving All Telecommunications Companies Within Missouri

COLUMBIA, MO Bluebird Network, LLC, a Midwest telecommunications company, announces that its President and CEO, Michael Morey, has been appointed as Chairman of the Board for the Missouri Telecommunications Industry Association (MTIA). MTIA provides a forum for discussion and cooperation among all companies on issues affecting Missouri’s telecommunications industry. Morey’s appointment fosters cooperation between Bluebird Network and MTIA’s other members and strengthens Bluebird Network’s presence in Missouri markets which encourages broadband benefits for local communities and businesses.

Serving as President and CEO of Bluebird Network since 2012, Morey brings over 37 years of telecommunications experience to MTIA. During his time with Bluebird Network, his strong management skills and deep insight empowered the company to more than double in size, and to earn multiple INC 5,000 recognitions as one of the fastest-growing private companies nationwide.


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CUSTOMER TESTIMONIAL
Customer Testimonial- Marty Roach, President, PC Net

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INDUSTRY CHATTER
How Fiber Gives New Life to Telehealth Capabilities in Critically Underserved Regions

Diagnosing and treating a medical illness is rarely as simple as just taking a pill, and when it comes to patients’ well-being, the stakes couldn’t be higher. For one county in Houston, Texas, a critical mission to eliminate Tuberculosis (TB) was jeopardized when Hurricane Harvey hit in 2017. Since TB treatment is measured on a scale of months and not weeks, the widespread disruption brought on by the storm posed serious implications — not only would treatment be prolonged for patients, but medication-resistant strains of the sickness became a very real fear.


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Broadcast Bunch Podcast


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Broadcast Bunch Blog: Fiber-Friendly Municipalities

In this episode, we speak with Michael Morey, Bluebird Network, about how communities can accelerate the delivery of and create more sustainable broadband programs.

What does it mean to be Fiber Friendly?

Pete Pizzutillo: Bluebird Network is bridging the gap between NFL cities and smaller municipalities, so you see the range of thinking. There are cities that are on the leading technical edge, and fully understanding the impact of broadband and are driving economic development through partnerships with service providers. Then smaller municipalities maybe unsure of the path and are distrusting of providers. How can municipalities become fiber-friendly? What does that mean?


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TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
October 28-30, 2019

NANOG 77
Austin, TX
November 4-6, 2019

INCOMPAS
Louisville, KY
Corporate HQ
2005 W. Broadway Bldg. A
Suite 215
Columbia, MO 65203
Phone: 1-573-777-4200
Toll Free: 1-855-BLUEBIRD
Kansas City Office
800 N.W. Chipman Road
Suite 5750
Lee’s Summit, MO 64063
Phone: 816-361-8821
Toll Free: 888-832-6662
 
St. Louis Office
10024 Office Center Avenue
Suite 201
St. Louis, Missouri 63128
Phone: 1-314-270-8730
Bluebird Underground
1904 N. LeCompte
Springfield, Missouri 65802
Phone: 1-417-851-0200