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Keewaytinook OkimakanakPresentation to First
Nations Connect Conference
Smart
InitiativeBroadband Network Infrastructure

• Thunder Bay, Ontario
• Presented by
• Dan Pellerin
• Network Manager
• February 12, 2002

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Welcome
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Building a network

• Networks do not magically appear
• They evolve over time. Factors such as funds,
  human resources, technical abilities,
  infrastructure all play
• The following slides show some of the steps
  involved in building a community network and
  bringing the communities together into a wide
  area network (WAN).

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Building a Networka local area network
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Building a Networkinternet access
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Building a Networkbroadband access
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Building a Networkthe aggregation process
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Building a Networkthe community network
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Building a NetworkWide area network
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Building a NetworkThe service providers
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Building a Networkexpansion of WAN
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Benefits of the Network

• Regional in nature
• Northern Ontario, NAN region.
• Multiprotocol
• video, data, voice all on the same network.
• Scalable
• network can grow as communities join.
• Interoperable
• using published standards insures being able to
  join other networks.. Eg. North Network, ENO.

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Benefits of the Network

• Aggregation.
• Traffic is aggregated to the benefit of all the
  community members
• Services and client needs met.
• No one organization can do the network
  completely. Using an aggregated network ensures
  that service providers reach the clients most
  effectively.

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Cost items

• Customer premise equipment
• computers, hubs, switches, servers, routers.
• Local loop equipment.
• Community access equipment
• WAN charges
• Internet access charges.

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It is a journey

• Technology evolves a solution today may not be
  suitable for tomorrow, so plan as such.
• In ten years todays networks may be seen as
  primitive, but they will have carved the way for
  the present and future users.
• Not everything will succeed 100 but even in
  Business and Government there are errors

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BEST PRACTICES

• Create partnerships
• Get companies to know Communities.
• Train local people. Not only the consultants.
• Have constant communication with community
  leaders and champions.
• Smaller projects leading to the bigger picture is
  preferable.
• Share proposals and resources with other groups
• Let the community take ownership

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Bringing it home

• The next few slides show the network growth over
  the past three years as it relates to the NAN
  region.

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In the beginning
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Slate Falls joins up.
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The link to Toronto and ENO
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The Shibogama Connection
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Windigo comes onboard
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Fort Hope and Webequie
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Sandy Lake and Ottawa
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The Kuh-ke-nah network
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The most important part of the network.

• The People.

Future System Administrator
The Next group of Software
Engineers?
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K-Nets Partners in Community Development
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Partners in Community Development
THE FEDERAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE IN
NORTHERN ONTARIO
http//fednor.ic.gc.ca
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Partners in Community Development
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT KUH-KE-NAH

• Website(http//knet.on.ca)
• Brian BeatonProject Leader(brian.beaton_at_knet.on.
  ca)
• Dan Pellerin dan.pellerin_at_knet.on.ca
• K-Net Services at 877-737-KNET (5638)CD ROM
  (please request)