successful broadband deployment for municipalities

Successful Broadband Deploymentsfor MunicipalitiesApplications and Infrastructure

Brian Estrem U-reka Broadband Ventures, LLC

May 21st, 2009

Applications and Inventories

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Early adopters of fiber-to-the-premise and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services

Clients include Service Provider’s, Local Units of Government and Private Businesses

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Which comes first?

Infrastructure or Applications? Chicken of the Egg?

Applications help drive bandwidth demand and design considerations

The more Applications you can envision the more opportunities you have to drive revenue and cost-savings to the Municipality

In addition different applications can drive other funding opportunities (think Stimulus Dollars)

Where do you start?

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Public Sector Inventory

What are the Public Sector Applications that you can bring solutions to?

For example in a Municipality you may have the ability to provide applications for:

– Public Safety– Health Care– Education– Libraries and Community Centers– Traffic Management– City Utilities and Public Works– Smart-Grid

All of these solutions that you can create drive revenue to your infrastructure and create cost savings within your community that you can credit to your network operation

Also many of these applications never leave your network and have little or no incremental cost to provide



Business Community Inventory

What are the economic development and business retention goals of your community?

What are the applications that your business community requires?– High-Speed Data Services– Data Center Requirements– Data Security Requirements– Advanced Voice and Video Services (Telephone System replacement and High-

Definition Video Conferencing– Mobility

Inventorying your Business Community requirements is important:– Brings your Economic Development Staff into your project– Business Customers often bring in the most revenue to a project



Residential Inventory

What is the current status of the Telephone, Cable Television and Wireless Companies in your community?

– Services Reputation– Customer Service Reputation– Pricing and Value Reputation

What are your residents looking for:– High Speed Internet– More Television Choice– Expanded Calling Areas– Lower Prices– Local Service

How likely are your residents to switch services from their current providers?



Infrastructure Considerations


Layering the Applications to the Infrastructure

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Example of how you layer applications and inventories to devise and infrastructure plan

Utilizing the Inventories and Applications you can determine logical network layouts to meet your requirements

Begin with a core infrastructure and layer on additional infrastructure for residential and business requirements

You do not need different networks to serve your different customer sets-a combined infrastructure is a more resilient infrastructure



Infrastructure Considerations

What existing Municipal resources can you utilize?– Rights-of-Way– Municipal land for cabinet or hub sites– Municipal Buildings for Operations and Equipment– Services such as Human Resources, Accounting and Legal

Not just physical assets:– Economic Development becomes a promoter of your services– Public Works may provide infrastructure services

– Locates– Land and Building Maintenance

– Council members championing your cause



Services Infrastructure

Services include:– Telephone Switching Equipment– Cable Television Headend– ISP Infrastructure– Co-location Facilities

Must be built carrier grade; 24/7 availability 99.999% reliability

Must have redundancy

Will include power backup

Will be secure

Infrastructure includes how you interconnect to the rest of the world for services



Fiber Infrastructure

Determine Core Routes– Physically Redundant– Pass as many “Big Business” and Municipal Buildings as possible with Core– Ensure you have estimate growth capacity for Core Route

– More Fiber– More Conduit

– Don’t undersize your network-the incremental cost of additional fiber strands is small

Place Fiber cabinets in locations that minimize the possibility of them being damaged by traffic or vandalism

– At Public Works locations can be secure– Attempt to place off of Right-of-Way where future construction might take

place

Same rules go for distribution fiber facilities-protect as much as possible



Support Infrastructure

Operational Support Systems (OSS) and Business Support Systems (BSS) include:

– Billing – Mapping – Plant Inventory

– Electronics– Fiber

– Customer Care– Trouble Ticketing– Services Activation

Support Systems must interconnect to create a seamless system for staff and customers:

– Eliminate “swivel chair” operations– Initial investment in systems can reduce future operational costs– Documentation of your systems and business processes allow a smoother

operation



Conclusions

Applications will drive Infrastructure decisions; spend the time up-front to understand what all the needs of your customer base are

Look for applications that fit an un-met need for your customer base

Inventory what your Municipal, Business and Residential Customers require for services

Only once you have determined your applications and services then you can make intelligent infrastructure decisions

All portions of your infrastructure (Services, Fiber and Systems) must meet high-standards to compete in the marketplace

Don’t scrimp “Capital Costs are only once, Operations Cost forever”

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