Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in Rural Maryland

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• SAILOR NETWORK
• WIRELESS
• IN
• RURAL MARYLAND

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• Sailor is a project of
• Maryland Public Libraries.
• Conceived by Public Library Administrators
• Engineered, Operated and Staffed by Public
  Library employees

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• A Short History
• The Sailor Network started in 1994.
• Statewide footprint since 1995.
• Primary funding FY 1994 FY1999, Federal Grants.

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• A Short History
• HB601 State Library Resource Center/ Sailor
  Funding (1999) sponsors included
• Delegates Eckardt, Walkup, Cane, Bozman, Conway,
  Hecht, Arnick, Owings, Proctor, Wood, Slade,
  McKee, Rawlings
• Senators voted 47-0 in favor

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• A Short History
• Fourth Generation Network currently being
  launched employing Carrier-class Wireless

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• Bandwidth to the county
• 1st Generation 384 Kbps to county (1994)
• 2nd Generation 1.554 Mbps to county (1997)
• 3rd Generation 10 Mbps to 11 counties
  alternative paths to Internet (2001)
• 4th Generation migration to 100 Mbps to
  counties on Sailor Network begun 2003

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• Rural customers

• Dorchester Govt 2000
• Wicomico Salisbury
• 2002
• Worcester Govt 2002
• Worc. Health Dept 2002
• Lower Shore Workforce
• Alliance 2003
• Wicomico BOE 2003
• Garrett CAC, Health
• Partnership 2003

• Wor-Wic CC 1995
• Talbot Govt/Easton 1998
• ESAHEC 1998
• Garrett BOE 1999
• Washington Govt
• Hagerstown 1999
• St. Marys CPS 1999
• Caroline Govt/Denton 2001
• Somerset Govt 2000

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• Near term goal Fall 2003
• Eastern Shore Wireless bandwidth and alternate
  paths
• 1st phase Caroline, Queen Annes, Talbot, Kent,
  Cecil
• 2nd Phase Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico,
  Worcester

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Sailor Eastern Shore Wireless Overview
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Sailor ES Wireless with nwMD interconnects
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Sailor Wireless and nwMD/Sailor Projects 2003
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Vision for Sailor Wireless in Rural Maryland
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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• Mid term goal 6 - 12 months
• Enhance the Network where bandwidth and/or
  alternate paths are needed
• Garrett, Washington
• St. Marys, Calvert, Prince Georges, Anne
  Arundel

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• Longer term goal 12 18 months
• Enhance the Network to meet remaining needs for
  Fourth Generation bandwidth and/or alternative
  paths

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• Eastern Shore Wireless to Date
• Spring 2003
• Sailor and counties coordinated
• Tower Applications
• Fall 2003
• Tower applications MOU pending

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• Why are Sailor and the Counties doing wireless ?
• Pave the information dirt road in rural
  counties
• Alternative paths for greater reliability
• Save money in long run

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• How will it be paid for ?
• Sailor backbone federal funds
• Counties multipoint local funds

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Task Force for the Deployment of Broadband in
Rural Maryland

• Who are the partners ?
• Sailor/Libraries Backbone radios
• Towns, municipalities tower space
• Counties Multipoint radios, tower space
• Infrastructure Committee Tower approvals
• DBM MOUs