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Broadband in Ireland?
Update and Recommendations to Government
NIRSA Conference
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Alternative Broadband Technology
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Sinéad Crowley
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South West Regional Authority
January 2004
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Overview
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• SWRA
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• Motivation
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•Right or Reward?!
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• •South West Broadband Initiative
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• •Cahersiveen Workshop – a sample…
• •Outcomes/ Suggestions – Road Map for
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Connected Communities
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Role of SWRA…
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The Day Job!
• Statutory Body – Est. 1994
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• Promote the co-ordinated delivery of
public services
• Second level • Support economic and social
sustainability
• Third level • Recently tasked with developing
Regional Planning Guidelines to
• Fourth level implement National Spatial Strategy
• Fifth level The Vision!
• ‘Region of Excellence’ in IS
• IS and Knowledge Based Society
activities since 1996 - National and
EU funding
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Broadband Connectivity - A right or a reward?
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Our Motivation - Its not about technology – but people ☺
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• Region - urbanedit Master text styles growth…. But
Rural / agriculture / fishing decline and loss of traditional industry
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• Bolster agriculture/ fishing
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industy – knowledge based economy – Cahersiveen as example
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• Left to marketlevel - ICTs have a much higher propensity to
become tools of centralisation rather than decentralisation and
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agents of economic concentration rather than of economic
dispersion
• Large area, dispersed population, high costs laying fibre –
difficult to make business case to Telco
• SWB dare to go where Telcos fail to do so…. Stimulate market
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Feasibility v Sustainability
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platform
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availability of
liability installations
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usability licensing
IPR issues
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users utilisation pricing policy
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coordination plan investigation
trials system integration
availability in existing PC
evaluation
security
Slide courtesy of ESA
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Initiative
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• To research and demonstrate satellite technology, evaluate its
usability, cost-effectiveness and reliability as a means of delivering
broadband to rural and peripheral areas
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Field trials public, education, telemedicine and business
• –Second level Video Conferencing, VPN
Remote diagnosis, IP
– Two-way (duplex) 512k – 2megs
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Things consider
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•Additional element of wireless LAN (802.11b unlicensed spectrum)
– Intelligent caching hardware, mail server, town domain names to provide
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widespread community access
– Terms and Conditions of Service plus password and encrypted access
– VPN for Local Authority traffic
– Local support
– LAN speeds – average 8mbits
– Technology has bedded down and is performing very well
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Satellite broadband and wLAN
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Graphic Courtesy of Kerry County Council
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Future of SWB
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Using satellite and edit local Communities can very easily and
economically provide broadband for themselvesSelf-sustaining
model - to be managed as robust and quality serice
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Organic model – grow and replicate it in smaller towns using
overflow from bigger small towns!
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Local Authorities aggregate demand for technology neutral tendering
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process. In discussion with LA and CMNR with regards to releasing
Tender for management of service in long term – possibility of
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vesting infrastructure ultimately in local government and State (as is
case with Irish MANs)
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•National Intervention - Bulk buy space segment and resell /redeploy
it strategically into disconnected towns and communities across the
country
• Backhaul irrelevant - Satellite not only option – patchwork of fixed,
mobile, fibre, satellite access technologies
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Broadband for Connected Communities Workshop
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• Examples of alternative broadband solutions from other
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•Role of public intervention in bb rollout
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• Input to Road Map for connected communities
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Belfast Beacon / Beacon Broadband
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• Ardoyne area of Belfast City
– High unemployment, prolonged political history
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No high speed communications means no new jobs
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No University or FE college can mean no knowledge based jobs
– and distance learning requires high speed communications !!!
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Have utilised three tier approach – radio LAN backhaul,
free space optics (FSO) MAN, and wLAN (802.11b) for
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last mile level
– Combined with access to 10 channel CCTV for local content –
mass services, local sports events, online tuition being developed
– Local training and employment opportunities in technology,
multimedia and managing community networks
Carl Cagg Dimension Broadband
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FSO MAN
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FSO LAN
155-1250 Mbps
Range 1 – 5 KM per link
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WLAN Local Loop
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Access Beacon
FSO Backhaul
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Range 1 – 7 KM arc radius per antenna
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BASQUE Broadband Framework
LMDS in Mountain/Rural Communities
• Basque Region
North of Spain, 2.1 million inhabitants, and three capital cities, the region
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also has a number of rural and mountain based communities that require
additional support to sustain them
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With a high percentage of heavy industry (steel/ car manufacturing),
telecommunications sector accounting for only 12% of the Spanish total
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•The Basque Regional Government aims to increase internet
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penetration over the next two years in rural/mountain areas
Defined and implemented a series of pilot projects in order to research
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• and test different wireless technologies (Satellite, Wi-Fi and LMDS)
3000 pp or less, 110 / 250 municipalities, no bb private operators
Radio link for the trunk network and a 3.5GHz LMDS would be used for
the access network – looking for multi-application solution – tv, phone,
internet
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•• The Basque Government invests in the network, also
taking advantage of the infrastructures it already has
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•available (using existing network mapping)
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• The operator will pay a fee to the Basque Government for
the concession and use of the transport network.
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EU Regulations and Public Intervention
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Types of Information Society Activities Supported by
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– Business support measures
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Modernisation of
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Infrastructure
– Working in the knowledge-based society and ICT skills
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• Guidelines - Commission Staff Working Paper - indicative
– “Guidelines on criteria and modalities of implementation of
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structural funds in support of electronic communications”
SEC(2003) 895 - 28.07.2003
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•– Secondhelp those MS and regions who wish to co-finance
investments through Structural Funds in the electronic
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communications
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Absence of
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Must be linked to regional IS strategy: no isolated projects
• Clear vision of demand (modernising public sector, digital skills,
content development) – not just infrastructure
• Only projects that are consistent with European competition
and telecom rules
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Guidelines
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Financing of electronic communications infrastructure:
Criteria for ERDF intervention
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– Need for a strategic framework
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– Geographical targeting – rural/remote
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– technological neutrality - not a priori favor
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any particular tech
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– open access – limited, in principle, to
infrastructure and equipment which is open
to all operators and service providers
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Thematic Network in IST FP5
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•Strategic RTD Roadmap for Rural & Maritime Areas to
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–deploy broadband
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–overcome the
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•Mobility & Ambient Intelligence in Rural Areas – is the challenge
•eRural Strategic Objective - eliminate Urban/Rural Digital Divide
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by 2010
•eServices, Communications Technologies & Software – critical
•Coherent EU RTD, Deployment & Implementation Support
–Across DG INFSO, DG Research, DG Agri & DG Regio.
Material courtesy of Dr. John O’Flaherty, MAC Ltd
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Connecting a Rural Region
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• Stimulate Demand – Know why
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• ICT Skills – Know how
• Intermediate RegionsAwareness
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• Ambient tech • eGovernment/NGO
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Meeting Conclusions / Concrete
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• How does Ireland and other countries/ regions catch up ?
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• Need a Digital Universal Service Regulation – create a level
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Common BackHaul Cost regardless of location
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operation as users get more invovled in the Global Knowledge
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• We need to focus on the young people who will be the main users
in 2010 – types of applications, demand for bandwidth,
convergence, mobility – this will be minimum standard
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Meeting Conclusions / Concrete
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• Open market forces alone are discriminating against the rollout of
Broadband in Rural Areas
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• Cannot wait for demand before provide the service – windowsill of
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Europe!
• Continue deregulation, but EU/National Public Sector has to proactivley
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Stimulate demand (services, pilots, etc) and ensure supply by
• create effective Supply Competition with a QoS requirement that
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positively discriminates in favour of Rural Areas
• Aggregating its demand and use to ensure universal BB access.
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• Partnerships of Community, Pubilc & Private operators
• Tap into existing expertise and commitment of local advocates and
community networks
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Workshop Paper (inc. weblinks)
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Pan-Eu Conference April 5/6th 2004
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www.swra.ie/broadband
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broadband@swra.ie
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Workshop Presentations
www.erisa.be
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