7. Additional Local Benefits Education Health Care Energy Conservation Public Safety Government Services 7 3/10/2011
8. What Does It Mean to Me? Price Choice Competition 8 3/10/2011
9. Broadband Availability in U.S. Percentage of households that meet goals of National Broadband Plan Over 14 million people do not have access to at least one provider that meets National Broadband Plan Number of households that are considered underserved 9 Credit: FCC @ broadband.gov 3/10/2011
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11. Topics Why Municipal Broadband? What Is Municipal Broadband? Who Is It For? How Is It Delivered? Why Isn’t It Taking Off? 11 3/10/2011
12. What Is Municipal Open-Access Broadband? Municipal=Last Mile Network Open-Access=Equal Access for Any Service Provider Broadband100 Mbit/s 12 3/10/2011
13. Network Anatomy Layer Coverage L7 … L4 Advanced Correlation & Analysis L3 Voice & Video Ops or MSC/BSC L2 L1 Transport Network Metro / Access Metro / Access CO Partner Carrier 13 3/10/2011
14. Let The Carriers Build It! Last-mile networks are the most expensive portion of the network to deploy Single purpose last-mile networks are not as economical as multi-tenant networks Incumbent service providers are not driving broadband penetration in underserved and un-served markets Lack of competition Lack of choice Growth stagnates Service providers understand the concept of divorcing the network from the service Network Service Profitability is not achieved in time-frame suitable for public companies There is not a one size fits all approach National Broadband Plan is guideline only Building infrastructure is a local issue 14 3/10/2011
15. Cost of Last Mile Access $850 per home passed $2,125 cost-to-pass per subscriber $3,225 total investment per subscriber 15 3/10/2011
16. Network vs. Services ManagementLevel Business & Operation Support Systems Billing Provisioning Maintenance Operations Services Voice (VoIP) Data (Internet, LAN, MAN, & LAN) Video (IP-TV, RFoG) Mobility Service/Application Level Infrastructure & Transport Fiber & Ducts Optical (WDM, PON, Optical Ethernet) Wireless (LTE, GSM, CDMA, Pt-Pt Microwave) Redundant Paths for High Availability Transport Level 16 3/10/2011
17. Who Is The Network For? Stakeholders Government Education Health Care Business Community Service Providers Business Providers Residential Providers Mobility Providers Incumbent Providers 17 3/10/2011
18. Business Service Providers AT&T Business Cogent Communications Covad Communications Cox Communications Front Range Internet (FRII) Global Crossing Integra Telecom IP5280 Level 3 Communications PAETEC Qwest Business Reliance Globalcomm TDS Telecom tw Telecom Verizon Business Virtela XO Communications Zayo Enterprise Services 18 3/10/2011
19. Residential Service Providers These are non-incumbent service providers that offer a combination of voice, video, data, and wireless services in other communities. AT&T AT&T Wireless Front Range Internet (FRII) Fuzecore IDT Liberty Media Mstar Prime Time Communications Sage Telecom Sprint TDS Telecom T-Mobile Verizon Wireless Virtela Vonage 19 3/10/2011
20. Personal Applications Voice communications/telephony Teleconferencing Video Calling Instant Messaging/Status Geolocation Social Networking Gaming Blogging Personal Web Sites Shopping Reading Music: Listening & Purchasing Music Composition & Recording Mobility in Applications Broadcast Video Time-Shifted Video Video on Demand/Movies Live Events Photo & Video Sharing E-Mail Podcasting/Video Casting Banking, Investing & Personal Finances Hobbies Travel Planning Healthcare Energy Management Security Education 20 3/10/2011
21. High Bandwidth Personal Applications Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) High Definition Video on Demand Energy Management Security 21 3/10/2011
22. Business Applications Voice Communications/telephony Voice Conferencing Video Conferencing/Telepresence Webinars E-Mail IM/Status Financial Transactions Business-to-Business Transactions Marketing Social Media Investor Relations Surveys Data Storage & Retention Government Compliance Customer Relationship Management Manufacturing Resource Planning 2D & 3D Modeling/Supercomputing Security Telemedicine Product Development/Design Multi-location Communications Design Transfer to Manufacturing B2B & B2C Sales Customer Support/Call Center Literature Distribution Claims Adjustment 2D & 3D Modeling Animation Video Distribution Travel Planning Expense Reporting Public Relations 22 3/10/2011
23. High Bandwidth Business Applications Video Conferencing/Telepresence Climate & Geo-modeling Telemedicine Video Production & Animation Design Transfer to Manufacturing Equities & Commodities Trading 23 3/10/2011
24. Fit the Network to the Community’s Needs Fiber, Wavelength, Bandwidth, or all Wireline vs. Wireless Partitioning PON or Active Ethernet 24 3/10/2011
35. Ethernet-based transportMax 32 way split (16-way specified in standard) LU #1 EPON TXR Fiber E-PON LU #N, N ≤32 LU #N, N ≤32 Splitter 1000BASE-PX20 per IEEE 802.3ah Network optical transceiver (TXR) shared by “N” subscribers *OLT implementations may not necessarily support all PON technologies indicated
36. Example of WDM-PON 3/10/2011 27 Hybrid WDM-PON example Wavelength Splitter ONT (Fixed Optics) TDMA Power Splitter Access Node ONT Bitrate 1 Dedicated l1 pair SNI Feeder Fiber OLT Fixed* or adaptable optics 1 to N ls on Single Fiber ONT Bitrate 2 Dedicated l2 pair ONT (Fixed Optics) TDMA Wavelength selection here Power Splitter * “Fixed” optics might be a cost reduced version of convention DWDM long-haul optics NOTE: Most believe adaptable optics will be required for a practical WDM-PON system ColorlessONTs: Transmitter and receiver front-end filter characteristics are wavelength adaptable
37. Intelligent Network Build-Out Sophisticated planning tool to model network expansion based on existing facilities, anchor tenants, and interested customers Model new facilities in minutes with fiber and wireless transport Quote tail circuits in hours instead of days 28 3/10/2011
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39. A single community does not offer economies of scale to attract business and residential service providersMunicipality Network Operator Finances the project Owns title to infrastructure Access to right-of-ways Sets codes and ordinances based on best practices Sets pricing for non-discriminatory access to infrastructure Interconnection at point-of-presence (POP) for service providers All franchise agreements still valid Local entity contracts to Network Operator to intelligently build-out and manage last-mile infrastructure Planning and construction Best practices Pricing & billing for city Order management Service activation Monitoring & maintenance Operator acts as agent for entity to lease/sell last-mile access to residential and business service providers 29 3/10/2011
41. Competition Incumbent service providers: telephone and cable companies (PMO) Wireless service providers: Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile USA Satellite service providers: DISH/EchoStar, DirectTV, HughesNet, WildBlue 3/10/2011 31
42. The Future of Open-Access Muni Networks Choice Economical Societal Benefits Economic Vitality 3/10/2011 32 A proven business model that will increase broadband penetration in un-served and underserved areas.
Is it because of national price? Perhaps, but most people do not relate to things on a global scale. They think more locally.
…It’s about being local.People want to know how broadband will help them, their friends, and their community.Broadband services create economic vitality…
…attracting new businesses, retaining businesses, improving depressed business and residential districts, increasing competitiveness, improving worker training, and increasing individual income.As manufacturing and agricultural opportunities are reduced small and home businesses evolve based on broadband.This isn’t anecedotal evidence. It is based on a survey by the International Economic Development Council from officials nationwide on how broadband impacted their economic vitality.90% stated National Broadband Plan goals of 4 mbit/s were not enough.Over 55% stated that 100-120 Mbit/s was enough for economic growth.
So what does it mean to me? People want to know what they are going to get out of it personally. They can relate to the economic and social benefits, but they want to know what is the direct effect to them.Open-access broadband brings price reductions and choices of services through competition.
Numbers in thousands of households.First bar is 10+ Mbit/sMap shows percentage of households meeting NBP goal.
By now you are probably wondering where I am going with this talk. I already covered the “Why” question so now it is time to define municipal broadband and why communities should be involved. Next I will cover the stakeholders and participants before providing an overview of how it is delivered. I will finish up with why we don’t see more communities doing it and the impediments to its adoption before taking questions.
Governments should not be involved in what has been the domain of private enterprise. Why should taxpayers foot the bill for these networks? First of all we are not asking for taxpayers to pay for the network or governments to get into the telecommunications business.
Figures based on Verizon FiOS (FTTH)
Government includes public safety, research institutions, libraries, etc.
Partitioning means different physical networks for government and private carriers
Unlike the incumbents (PMO), we leverage your ability for long-term funding to cover all homes and businesses with a broadband network.Unlike the wireless service providers, we will not have a bandwidth bottleneck.Unlike satellite service providers, we can provide carrier-class business services and high-quality voice and Internet services.