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eEurope Workshop on Broadband Local and Regional
Initiatives Driving Broadband Rollout to
Peripheral Communities South West Broadband
Initiative Sinéad Crowley Project Manager South
West Regional Authority December 2003
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Overview

• South West Regional Authority
• Regional Snapshot
• Why Satellite?
• Aims and deliverables of SWB
• Who is involved?
• Field Trials
• What is involved in the delivery of Satellite
  Broadband and wLAN?
• Current state of play
• Lont Term Plans/options?
• Questions?

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Peripheral Region with High Growth Economy

• Counties Cork and Kerry - Area 12,100 sq. kms
• Population 580,000
• GDP 120 of European Average
• Very high-technology industrial presence mainly
  electronics and chemicals
• Unemployment 3
• 25,000 students in Third Level
• Economic activity mainly centralised around Cork
  City

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Role of SWRA

• The Day Job!
• Statutory Body Est. 1994
• Promote the co-ordinated delivery of public
  services
• Support economic and social sustainability
• Recently tasked with developing Regional Planning
  Guidelines to implement National Spatial Strategy
• The Vision!
• Region of Excellence in IS
• IS and Knowledge Based Society activities since
  1996 - National and EU funding
• Technology Centres mesh network of skills

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ICT and Regional DevelopmentThe Great Equaliser
???!!!

• Death of distance dont believe it
• Left to market forces - ICTs have a much higher
  propensity to become tools of centralisation
  rather than decentralisation and agents of
  economic concentration rather than of economic
  dispersion
• An option does not amount to competition or
  choice!!
• Is affordable, accessible, competitive broadband
  service a right or a privilege?

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National Response

• In the case of Ireland, the Taoiseach (Prime
  Minister) has stated that ensuring development
  of the national infrastructure for the delivery
  of advanced telecommunications services, is the
  single strategic priority of greatest underlying
  importance to our economic and social development
  as an Information Society
• There is a move towards local connected
  communities initiatives and the Dept of CMNR
  Oireachtas (Parliamentary) Committee series of
  meetings on BB rollout at local, regional and
  national level
• Ongoing commitment and work of ComReg
• New Connections A Strategy to realise the
  potential of the Information Society, Government
  Action Plan, March 2002, p.6 Section 1
  ,Telecommunications Infrastructure

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Regional ResponseWhy Satellite and Wireless?

• Large territory with dispersed population
• Very high costs associated with fibre-laying
• Difficult to make business case to Telcos,
  especially small towns (600 1200 pp), and lower
  levels of economic activity
• But the race is on and someone has to get in the
  game for rural communities.
• Failing to get a Teleco prepared to provide
  broadband in many towns we decided to adopt a
  self help approach
• We viewed Satellite, clever caching hardware
  combined with wireless as an a suitable approach

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SWB Partners
SWB Steering Committee Lead Partner - South West
Regional Authority John McAleer, Sinead Crowley,
Eoghan Allen Consortium Partners Kerry County
Council Cork County Council Údarás na
Gaeltachta West Cork Adult Education Service
(County Cork VEC) Post Graduate Medical and
Dental Board, Cork University Dental School and
Hospital ICS Skills (incorporating ECDL
Ireland) Technical Manager
Evaluator Associate Partner Ildana Teo
National Micro Electronics Centre
Enterprise Ireland
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Industry Partners

• Confirmed Industry Partners
• Raytheon
• iDirect
• Satlynx/ Gilat/ Media Satellite
• Hughes/ Educom/ Orbitlink
• Tachyon
• Europestar
• Netdish (Italy)
• UrElectronics

• Intel
• DCM Group
• Duolog
• 3Com
• VB Nets
• Bandwidth Telecommunications Ltd.
• Cork Institute of Technology WEG
• TecNet

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Aims of the SWB Initiative

• To research and demonstrate satellite technology
  as a means of delivering broadband to rural and
  peripheral areas
• To evaluate its usability, cost-effectiveness and
  reliability, and
• To disseminate the outcomes and experience of the
  initiative throughout Ireland and across Europe
• A key element of the SWB will be to support and
  sustain innovation in technology, and future
  business development by Irish and European SMEs -
  in areas of applications and technology
  development

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Feasibility v Sustainability
demo platform
availability of contents
liability
installations
usability
licensing
IPR issues
pricing policyinvestigation
utilisation plan
users coordination
integration in existing PC
system availability
trials evaluation
security
Slide courtesy of ESA
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For each type of Rural Region

• Stimulate Demand Know why
• ICT Skills Know how

• Integrated Regions
• Intermediate Regions
• Remote Regions

• eEurope / EU eRural Policy
• Economic
• Social
• Technological
• Sustainability

• Access Technologies
• User Technologies
• Regulatory

• eGovernment/NGO
• (Killer Apps ?)
• Commercial

Slide courtesy of Dr. John OFlaherty, MAC
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Field trails
SME Development eGovernment Health
delivery Distance Education Wireless Local Area
Networks
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Field Trials
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Field Trial Locations
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Non-Satellite broadband if you can afford it!
Graphic Courtesy of Kerry County Council
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Satellite broadband and wLAN
Graphic Courtesy of Kerry County Council
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Wireless LANS

• Satellite to wireless- 802.11b/g LANs is the tour
  de force for satellite.
• Supported by on-site web(caching) and mail
  servers, town domain names
• Terms and Conditions of Service - key, username,
  password
• Very efficient and effective
• Users experience very fast speeds -11 Mbits/sec
• Such LANs are not expensive to install
• Not expensive to operate if bandwidth,
  administartion and technical costs are built into
  subscription
• Future convergence of satellite with digital tv,
  Voice over IP.

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SWB Partner Satellite Options

• iDirect/ Ildana Teoranta / EuropeStar/ Netdish
  Captial costs 7,000 12,000 euro, 1m dish as
  standard. Bandwidth 300 euro pm upwards
  (1mg/300k)
• MediaSatellite / Satlynx / GilatBDSL biz 79 euro
  purchase/install 440. Bandwidth 512k one way
  satellite, PSDN return path over ISDN or GSM
• BDSL SMEs 216 euro bundled 512/ 128k
• BDSL SMEm 324 euro bundled package 512/ 128
• BDSL SMEl 512 euro 1024/256 (1g)
• Educom / Hughes
• 512/128k (768m per day) installation 299e, 139
  pm, rental 70pm, security deposit 800 euro
• 1024k/128 (1.5 gb) installation 299 euro, 349
  euro
• 2048/128 (3gb) 619 euro
• 768/128 (768mg) 139, 1295 purchase
• 279, 1295
• 549, 1295

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Progress to date

• Enormous industry support from space and ground
  sector operators
• Clearly satellite is a technology in broadband
  rollout
• Importantly the technology is already beginning
  to deliver jobs in our region
• Stimulate the telco market and open up technology
  neutral market
• Complexity of integrating technology dependent
  on all pieces working - Show stoppers!!
• Both Satellite and wLAN - Many issues addressed
  contention ratio, VPN, IP over satellite, public
  access, sustainability

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Awareness/ Dissemination

• Oireachtas Joint Committee CMNR
• Dept. of An Taoiseach and ISF, Dept. Finance
• Significant Pan-EU Exchange and Interest
• Workshop 16/17 October 2003. Go to www.erisa.be
  for documentation or email broadband_at_swra.ie
• SWRA/ SWB/ CoR - International Conference on
  Delivering Broadband to the Regions, Killarney,
  5/6 April 2004

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Conclusions

• Using satellite and wLANs, local Communities can
  very easily and economically provide broadband
  for themselves or partner with Local Authorities
  to aggregate demand locally for technology
  neutral tendering process. Self-sustaining model
  - to be managed as robust and quality serice.
  (cheap/affordable subscription - not cheap
  service)
• In advanced discussion with LA and CMNR with
  regards to releasing Tender for management of
  service in long term possibility of vesting
  infrastructure ultimately in local government and
  State (as is case with Irish MANs)
• Organic model grow and replicate it in smaller
  towns using overflow from bigger small towns!
• 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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Please contact us

• The South West Regional Authority and our
  partners in the South West Broadband project,
  will be happy to provide information on all
  aspects of our work
• Thank you for your attention.
• Contact details
• WEB www.swra.ie/broadband
• E mail broadband_at_swra.ie
• scrowley_at_swra.ie

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