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GIS Broadband Assessment Report to ATIC Public
Meeting February 19th 2009
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Long Standing Policy Goal

• Governors GCIT/CIAC Recommendations - 2005
• Arizona Broadband Initiative Framework (ABIF) -
  2006
• Part of the ABC Initiative - 2007
• Recommended Legislative Agenda
• E-Rate/ABDA for 2008-09

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Survey Purpose Process

• Purpose Identify at a granular level, Gaps or
  Deficiencies in Arizonas Broadband
  Infrastructure, Project Future Needs.
• Process Broadband GIS Survey using base
  geographic areas like Census Block, School
  District Areas, Zip Code

• GITA will administer and manage the Survey in
  Cooperation with other
• agencies and ATIC.
• - Activities will include
• 1. Write a Scope of Work Completed Dec
  2008
• 2. Contract for the necessary elements
  in mapping
• process, including interns,
  consultants - Pending
• 3. Assist in data acquisition from State
  agencies, political
• subdivisions, school districts,
  Licensed data sources, telecom providers
• and Surveying - Pending
• 4. Coordinate the distribution of
  interim and final reports. - Pending
• Uses of Survey include
• - State Agency Broadband Deployment,
• - Broadband Policy support re ABC Initiative
  Middle Mile Build-out
• - Economic Development support

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Survey Phase1

• 50K Grant from Board of Regents
• Contracted with Data Site Consortium (State
  Contractor)
• - Proposal in March
• - Work begun in in April.
• Phase1 Goals
• - Identify Framework Scope for Overall Survey
• - Identify GIS Data Sources within State
  Agencies and
• other government entities (public info)
• - Identify processes and practices of other
  States

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Current Understanding of State Infrastructure

• Middle Mile Issues
• Stranded single runs and lack of loops.
• Lack of redundant paths which devastates whole
  regions when outages occur.
• Lack of Interconnection between areas of Telco
  owned Fiber
• Last Mile Issues
• High Cost differentials between Rural and Urban
  areas (Distance charges - some as high as 1,500
  per month for T-1)
• Uneven distribution of Broadband Availability -
  Estimates as high as 250,000 homes and businesses
  without any connection or an affordable
  connection (Government services also impacted)

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Another View - Cable Industry Maps re Broadband
Availability

• Cable Broadband Is Available to 96.6 of all
  Arizona Homes

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Phase1 Recommendations - Project Approaches

• Await Federal Broadband Assessment Initiatives
• There is a general consensus as to the absence
  of useful national and regional broadband status
  and infrastructure data from the Federal
  Communications Commission (FCC).
• Senate Bill 1492 recently signed into law but
  unfunded Likely several years before usable
  broadband deployment data. Can we wait for
  these improved FCC data sourcing and analysis
  tools to solve the problem for Arizona?.
• Outsourcing One-Off Approach
• Cost 150-350K (Other States from 150K to 2.1
  Million)
• A number of states have contracted for an
  outsourced, one time Snapshot view of broadband
  availability.
• This approach may yield the quickest results at a
  fixed contract cost, but appears limited to
  specific broadband assessment approaches and
  generally is static and quickly becomes stale
  information.
• However, such results can be designed to be
  imported to an ongoing or continuous broadband
  assessment effort and can be used to kick start
  such a process with baseline data to be augmented
  and updated over time.
• GITA Phase2 Broadband Assessment GIS Project and
  Migration Strategy
• Cost 574K
• Develop a longer term support or migration
  strategy for continuity. Strategy includes
• Continuous GIS Mapping process established per
  Phase2 assessment
• Permanent home established (along with
  appropriate funding) and in an existing Agency
• Alternately, GITA could assist in the
  development of a separate in-house GIS Agency
  including Broadband Assessment functions, which
  other states have effectively carried out, such
  as Massachusetts and Tennessee.
• Alternatively, the State could outsource
  ongoing maintenance and evolution to a private
  non-profit or for-profit organization.

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Broadband Assessment Project Architecture

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GIS Broadband Assessment - Data Sources

• Broadband-related information sources existing
  within various State agencies including details
  on telecom connections in use across the State
• Existing broadband assessment data from the FCC
  and other government agencies
• Data from the existing Arizona Telecommunications
  and Information Councils (ATIC) Arizona Telecom
  Directory (ATD) augmented and supported by an
  ongoing linkage to the States efforts
• Information and data access provided by telecom
  carriers and industry resources in a cooperative
  environment with appropriate proprietary and
  confidentiality management and protection
• External licensed commercial data sources and
  open sources in readily integrated GIS format
  with ongoing updates
• Data gathering from end users including
  traditional surveying and crowd sourcing
• Wide range of government, open source, licensed,
  and other GIS-based data for integration to core
  data warehouse or external utilization in
  mash-ups and visualization

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State Agency Broadband-Related GIS Data

• Arizona Government Information Technology Agency
  (GITA) - Arizona Public Safety Communications
  Commission (PSCC), telecom provider
  infrastructure maps
• Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA)
  Telecommunications Program Office (TPO) - State
  telecom purchasing data for hundreds of agency
  and other AZNet participant facilities around the
  state geo-coded by user, carrier, circuit type,
  cost(s), service level monitoring, and other
  operating data
• Arizona State Library, Archives and Public
  Records (ASLAPR) - Directory and database of over
  300 academic, public, tribal, special, and museum
  libraries including their location, technology
  plans, e-rate funding, telecom and broadband
  information
• Arizona Department of Education (ADE) - Annual
  Technology Survey and Assessment of every school
  district and charter institution including
  telecom and broadband purchasing data, School
  Technology Plans for E-rate support, Arizona
  Education Data Warehouse (AEDW) with school and
  district statistics, School Report Card System,
  Student Accountability Information System (SAIS),
  and School District Boundaries shape file
• Arizona State Land Department (SLD) State
  Cartographer Office (SCO) - Arizona Land Resource
  Information System (ALRIS), Arizona Geographic
  Information Council (AGIC) with downloadable
  datasets, Arizona Imagery Server, Arizona GIS
  Inventory Tool, and public land and city boundary
  shape files

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State Agency Broadband-Related GIS Data

• Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) - ILEC
  service areas LATA boundaries, ILEC and CLEC
  annual reports, lists of regulated telecom
  companies, telecom tariffs in dockets, natural
  gas pipeline and hazardous liquid pipeline maps
• Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) -
  Street centerline files with geometry, condition,
  and additional information on state and federal
  roadways, traffic management and performance
  monitoring, commercial vehicle and environmental
  information, airport and railroad datasets,
  roadway photo logs
• Arizona Department of Commerce (ADOC) - Arizona
  economic regions shape file, Asset Inventory
  Project for select regional economic data
  including telecom survey, population estimates,
  Arizona Workforce Informer and Arizona State Data
  Center programs, Arizona Indicators participant
• AZ3D - To provide common operating picture for
  decision-makers, emergency responders, and
  Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center
  (AcTIC) with Arizona Geospatial Clearinghouse
  (AGC) to assemble, integrate, develop and
  distribute geospatial data and services
• Arizona Health-e Connections (AzHeC) -
  Telemedicine and telehealth planning and data,
  survey of clinicians and practitioners throughout
  Arizona incorporating broadband questions
• Arizona Department of Revenue (ADoR) - Tracks
  telecom-related categories of taxable assets,
  Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) or sales tax,
  income statistics, bonding
• Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission -
  Congressional District shape file

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Example of State Matrix
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Other States Experience

• Ten States reviewed. NC, TN, KY, CA, VT, MA, IL,
  MD, PA, GA
• Immediate Benefits identified from Surveys
• Unserved or Underserved areas identified followed
  by competitive cost reductions to end-users
  (Kentucky, Massachusetts)
• Measurable Economic Development when Broadband
  situations improve (North Carolina)
• Informed Policy making by Legislatures (All
  states)

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Next Steps

• Initiate the GIS Broadband Assessment High
  Priority
• Watch and participate in upcoming Federal
  Initiatives
• 3. Participate in Regional and National
  Decision Making
• 4. Inform Constituencies and Policy Makers