Regional Broadband Networking

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Regional Broadband Networking

• Rick Ellinger
• Wireless Communications Alliance
• www.wca.org
• 888 351 6701
• ellinger_at_sbcglobal.net
• 5 DEC 2008

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A Network Board of Directors

• Planning Needs, suppliers -competition, costs,
  technology, performance, expansion
• Operations Keep it running
• Finance Keep it funded
• Support Make the users happy
• Mission review serving the needs of the
  community and users

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If this was the 3rd World

• First clean Water
• Healthy and Smart People
• Broadband (not telecom)
• WW economic participation
• Electric Power
• Improved Transportation
• They build fiber/wireless hybrid systems to IP
  plus cellular for mobile communications

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Organizations duplications? Costs? Focus?

• Tri County Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz
  beyond these?
• WeTEC
• CA Broadband Center

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Goals Mixed--FOCUS

• Serve unserved?
• Public sector
• Education, Public Health, Public Safety, Govt
  Services agree to be anchor tenants!
• Private Sector
• Small Business needs
• Individuals students
• Unmentioned
• Transportation, Environment, Energy

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Financial Viability Initial, Sustain

• Link this network to or through a Tier 1 Internet
  provider
• Support VPNs within the network business needs
  this.
• Gateways for servers per city, organized by
  applications focus

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Management Dynamics

• Avoid management by committee replace with
  quarterly reviews of needs,
• schedules,
• how-met results,
• next plans.
• Committees useful for needs gathering, reviews.
  Not fast enough for management of a high
  performance complex network

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Public-administered networks Elections and
commitment

• Ups, downs,
• usage flat fees pay/use premium svc.
• Subscribe contracts gateway, billing services
• Network security, hacks, support for law
  enforcement

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Performance MUST suite needs

• Mobility - availability everywhere
• Peer-to-peer - clever devices/software
• Images load down and up, then streaming
• Movies on demand
• Video chat
• 3D video gaming, simulations, visualizations
• Remote computer control
• Network management

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Present Broadband Infrastructure Choices

• Private fiber wireless APs to Tier 1 IP
• DSL to ATT via DSLAMs and 2-wire modem
• Wireless cellular EVDO, EDGE, G3 ATT, V, S, T
• Cable co share IP modems
• Hybrid satellite and land back haul

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Oasis and the Desert

• Campus net is at 1G speed, simple access,
  unlimited storage, WW access supporting
  collaborative access, team computing, parallel
  processing and links for remote instrumentation
  and remote HDTV cameras
• Off campus and after graduation, bits are a
  comparative trickle Cable and DSL are .001 of
  capacity, cellular is .01. 2 way satellite zip.

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Open movement vs. Control

• Polar extremes ATT vs. Google and the OPEN
  Network
• To one open is customer choice, to the other,
  it is ability for user and developers to tailor
  and invent any device for the network.
• Wireless is meant to be mobile, but when cellular
  operators are in control it is taxed for every
  access, modality, and throttled.
• View of Software development ranges from (bad)
  hackers to innovation teams

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Dilemmas cellular

• Mobility and data at what price?
• Applications accessible?
• Open devices admissible openly?

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Community BB and Control via cellular providers,
cable cos, ISPs

• How do you add applications? Share revenue?
• Queue to get access through Verizon what about
  ATT, T-Mobile, Sprint?
• Is their gateway guarded by a troll? The good
  troll does the billing but doesnt answer
  questions
• Should the community run a Gateway? Ultimately
  the revenue model defines the community.

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One network or several share costs or
free-for-all

• Anchor tenant Government providing steady
  information services
• Education providing information services per
  student du jour, continuing too
• Attract other users with quality, performance,
  applications, support or they go elsewhere.

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Competing with others who believe they have a
monopoly right to deliver services, but dont.

• Cellular
• Cable
• Wireless internet service providers
• Private networks
• Make it possible for all to join this network!

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Assume all access WW Internet

• Hybrid fiber/wireless hotspots 1G 10M
• Unlimited managed data plans on cellular EVDO,
  WiMAX 40 60/mo/user
• Data services added to Cable COs TV plans 1M
  6M
• Hybrid Data services via Satellite (e.g. Direct
  TV) 100K to 600K
• 5th Generation Satellite (LEOS) 1-100M