Delivering Town Centre and wider NGA through use of a CCTV fibre optic network: the case of Colchester, Essex

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Delivering Town Centre and wider NGA through use
of a CCTV fibre optic network the case of
Colchester, Essex

• Jim Leask
• Senior Enterprise Officer
• Workshop Presentation NextGen10 Conference
• 23 November 2010

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Colchester location and population
One-third of the Borough is urban but contains
two-thirds of the population of 177,000 (2009).
The population is expected to grow to 223,500
people in 2021. This is an increase of 46,500
people over a 12 year period - the fastest
growing place in Essex
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Purpose of the Strategy

• So that Colchester Borough.
• becomes a highly competitive location for
  business, improving employment opportunities
  while containing ICT costs
• strengthens and enhances its attraction as a
  tourism, cultural and retail destination
• reduces transport movements and lessens traffic
  congestion
• raises the quality of life of all its residents,
  particularly those who require health and care
  services
• leads on the delivery of modern public services
  while reducing their future costs
• supports new IP applications and content
  provision for public, private and community
  needs.

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Vision and objectives

• Our Vision is to make the Borough the
  best-connected Authority in the East of England
  by at the latest - 2013.
• To achieve this ambition Colchester will have
  accelerated the formation of a digital
  infrastructure enabling access to a fast,
  affordable broadband service for all. This high
  bandwidth service across a wide range of IP
  applications will contribute to leading-edge
  outcomes for all businesses, organisations,
  residents and visitors.
• All homes, business premises, and mobile phone
  users will be able to connect to an affordable,
  high speed, open access broadband network
  offering at least 20Mbps download speed and
  10Mbps upload speed by 2012 and 40-50 Mbps
  download and upload bandwidth by 2013.

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Why Colchester is well-placed for NGA roll-out

• The Local Authority owns and manages its CCTV
  network with 126 town centre cameras connected by
  twin FOCone of only perhaps a handful of LA s to
  do so
• The Town Centre has a high demand for NGA
  services large student population, strong
  creative and media sector, tourism hotspot and
  major retail centre
• Traffic congestion is significant and the Borough
  is the fastest growing
• The CCTV network can deliver wireless and fixed
  NGA through procuring one or more ISPs to deliver
  an open access network
• Linkage to the town centre makes a combination of
  wireless and PCP-related rural initiatives
  attractive to other ISPs, catalysing wider
  roll-out to all the rural area

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A Programme approach

• Projects
• Digital Town Centre
• Radio Microwave for Rural Connectivity
• Rural network build out
• FTTx Fibre network build-out for homes and
• businesses
• Actions
• Engaging local network installers and rural
  communities/parish councils
• Aggregating major user demands bandwidth and
  applications
• Implanting fibre optic ducting on major new build
  projects residential and commercial
  developments
• Skilling the user communities

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Microwave broadband in Colchester example using
key point-to-point locations and coverage
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Wireless for rural broadband an example of
point-to-point breaking out to point-to-multipoint
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• Thanks for listening.