Manchester Metronet

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Wide Area Network Averting Disaster
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Who is John Earley?

• Associate Consultant to Manchester Metronet
• General Manager wireless encoding RD Business
• Main Board Director IrDA
• Leading authority on ISDN in the 80s 90s
• Ex CEO 3 Network Management Businesses

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Reference

• Dr. David Morgan MorganDoyle
• DR Consultant to
• Bury MBC
• West Lancashire District Council
• Wigan MBC
• Consulting assignments completed with
• Derbyshire CC
• Hampshire CC
• North Yorks CC
• DTI
• White Paper available at www.morgandoyle.co.uk

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Your WAN A Vital Resource?

• Email
• Website Hosting
• Voice Over IP
• File Transfer
• Central Database Services
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Citrix
• Voice over IP
• Video Conferencing
• Remote Management
• Home Users
• Website Hosting

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The History of WAN Back-up Recovery
Hub Spoke
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The History of WAN Back-up Recovery
Meshed Networks
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The History of WAN Back-up Recovery
Meshed Networks
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The History of WAN Back-up Recovery
Meshed Networks
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The Manchester Model
14 Base Stations Connected to Fibre Ring
Manchester City Centre
Telecity
Fibre Ring
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Wireless Reliability

• Wireless networks are not inherently reliable
• Line of Sight can be precarious in an urban
  environment
• Appropriate management brings reliability
• Automated monitoring
• Engineers on call 24/7
• Equipment spares availability
• Authority

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Timeline Milestones

• 1st IP based covert surveillance links for GMP
• January 2006
• 1st fixed price leased line service model
• October 2006
• 1st Council/GMP integrated surveillance network
• February 2007
• 1st wireless Gigabit connection in 80 Ghz band
• February 2007
• Largest and most advanced IP CCTV project
  implemented across a wireless Wide Area Network
  February 2007

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In the Press
Manchester gets ahead of the game March 2007
Manchester Metronet Early Day Motion November
2006
Manchester Metronet launches wireless IP
Network September 2006
BT hiding public sector price rise November 2006
Some companies are not waiting for jam
tomorrow March 2007
Manchester gives thumbs up to WiMAX
alternative September 2006
Manchester gets wireless broadband September
2007 Manchester businesses get gigabit
wireless February 2007
New CCTV network linked by Wireless
radio September 2006
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Wireless DR

• Low data rate bandwidth available 24/7
• 1Mbps 1Gbps at a fraction of leased line costs
• Can be used as supplementary service
• On demand DR service increase to 16Mbps
• Unaffected by weather (floods)
• Operates independently of any 3rd party network
  operator
• Unparalleled resilience

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Making it happen

• Network equipment should support auto-failover
• Can it accommodate variable bandwidth
• Bandwidth Management Traffic Shaping prioritise
  mission critical applications
• New generation of integrated Router/Traffic
  shaper reported in Computer Weekly
• Optimise Traffic shaping/prioritisation in line
  with changing network conditions

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Off-site DR Replication

• Connectivity costs limit mirroring
• Most DR Sites can be lt12 hours adrift
• Managed point to point wireless technology
  alternative
• 100Mbps
• 8,000 install
• 1,000 per month
• 1Gbps
• 18,000 install
• 1,670 per month

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WAN DR Business Case

• Traditional leased lines are often prohibitively
  expensive
• State of the art wireless technology provides a
  viable alternative
• Wireless networks are only reliable when procured
  as a managed service
• Wireless services offer the opportunity for
  variable pay-as-you go services
• State of art traffic shaping/bandwidth management
  routers offer seamless transition through
  disasters

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Wide Area Network Averting Disaster