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1. Overview of B4GAL Community Broadband

   Superfast Broadband for Glencaple and Lowther Pronounced “bagel” Amanda Burgauer, Community Broadband Scotland, Aviemore 24/4/2013
2. Project Beginnings Lack of connectivity identified in 2010 as an issue by local community, but considered out of our control (Glencaple and Lowther Local Community Led Plan) Brought forward again as top priority at community consultation in April 2012 (Elvanfoot Residents Association) Broadband project initiated June 2012 B4GAL Community Broadband established Oct 2012 - working group of Glencaple& Lowther Development Group
3. Remote Rural Southern Scotland Nearest Town > 10,000 pop is Hamilton, about 45-60 minutes away
4. Our Area – Glencaple and Lowther Nine villages: Abington, Crawford, Crawfordjohn, Elvanfoot, Lamington, Leadhills, Roberton, Wanlockhead, Wiston Moorland with settlements along the River Clyde and hilltops, mostly remote rural Population around 2000 About 700 houses Most work outside the area
5. Our Connectivity 4 local BT exchanges serve 9 villages: Crawford, Crawfordjohn, Elvanfoot and Lamington Varies even within the same village Elvanfoot Activate Exchange max 512 kbps download Crawford and Leadhills exchanges max 8 Mbps but only a few can get it Many isolated homes with NO connectivity More than 6 km spread around each exchange
6. Community Engagement Questionnaire Posters and door to door Public Meetings average one per month for past 12 months Mapping names & addresses Events
7. Technology Choices Evaluation of technologies Superfast, next generation Sustainable Future proof Optic Fibre Consultant hired to create network map Backhaul identified Costings complete
8. The Offering Superfast broadband Internet access IP Telephony IPTV Security cameras In future: Training, Telemedicine, Education
9. The Business Application for charitable status – OSCR has accepted charitable purposes Company limited by guarantee with Board of Directors All profits to be spent within the Community Business Plan created showing sustainability Funding applications started
10. Next Steps Fundraising: £1.47 million Request for Proposals from civil engineering contractors Procurement with community benefit, i.e. training opportunities Digging in the optic fibre Creation of pilot studies with NHS and UWS Monitoring of social and economic benefit
11. Broadband and community resilience: Measuring impact Fiona Heesen (fiona.heesen@abdn.ac.uk) Pioneering Communities Seminar, April 24, 2013
12. Outline Background Resilience Community broadband and resilience Impact Evaluating broadband
13. Background
14. Resilience What is resilience? The ability for a community, group or individual to adapt to change Fig 1: Transitional ruptures, readjustment and recovery From Wilson, 2012, p. 57
15. Community broadband Two key stages to community-led broadband Designing and developing the network Implementation of technology Relationship with resilience? Use of Internet Process-based capacity building
16. What is ‘impact’ and how do we measure it? Impact can be broadly defined as: ‘the demonstrable contribution that a process or innovation makes to society and the economy’ Measuring? Understanding impact metrics
17. Evaluation I Understanding ‘real’ impact Process Developing your outcome areas Taking control of your research agenda and your story
18. Evaluation II
19. Using secondary data, understand context (may involve surveys and so on) Research Process Background Context Setting Users Identify a community’s expectations of both the organisation and the inclusion of superfast broadband infrastructure Governance Identify skills needed, used, gained throughout the pre-connectivity process as a broadband initiative Pre-connectivity Interviews Users Analyse the potential resilience attributed to the inclusion of superfast broadband Governance Identify characteristics from the process of implementing superfast services that influence resilience of that community Post-connectivity Interviews Heesen, F. 2013
20. Community BroadbandScotland Evaluating the CBS programme Importance of playmakers
21. Questions?

22. Optical Fibre in Community projects

    Uses and Options
23. To keep in mind……… Anything is technically possible. If you can afford it……. Elementary……
24. This session is about Fibre It’s good for you, but not too technical !
25. What is Fibre ? People tend to think of fibre like this…..
26. But it’s not much use unless there is some equipment at each end. You can add it yourself 1Gbps relatively cheap (per port) 10Gbps not so cheap 100Gps very expensive Or you can rent the whole thing as a fibre based “product” 10Mbps 100Mbps 1000Mbps “the Gig”
27. What we like about fibre…. It has very high capacity (it’s fast) It is very reliable. It is immune to electro-magnetic interference. It is not affected by weather. It is future proof.
28. What we don’t like about fibre…. There is not much of it about (that is usable). It is expensive to install. The equipment that is needed to terminate and use the fibre is expensive. This equipment must be housed somewhere
29. Which Means …. It is deployed commercially where there will be a return on that high investment. Core Networks (pretty much universal). Backhaul (Except in rural/remote areas). Access where the investment can be made. There is a technology called PON used for high density deployments – but we will ignore that for now……
30. So how does it work for communities? Crudely speaking - the more fibre the better. You probably wont have a core. It’s excellent as backhaul Equally good mixed with high capacity wireless Wonderful for access If you can afford it
31. Backhaul Assume you have a wireless access network Adding fibre backhaul will make it fly. So where can I get some?
32. What can you afford? Dig in you own? From your network to where? Or rent from a communications provider? BT? From your network to where? Share with someone else? A current CBS challenge Where !?!!!
33. Where from is the question… A commercial operators Point of Presence (PoP) A local business who might want to share? They could share the cost of install and rental. A public sector site? A work in progress! There’s lots to do here.
34. Getting a price from BTOR They have all the Broadband Ingredients But no Cake. The ingredient you want is Ethernet Access Direct 10, 100Mb – 25KM radial distance. 1000Mb - 35KM radial distance But you’ll have to find the other ingredients…..
35. Getting a price from BTOR Go to http://www.openreach.co.uk/pls/or_qq_owner/or_qq_frames.drawframe Enter the products you want and the postcodes of the a end and b end. The Installation price is subject to survey. But the rental is the key element with respect to sustainability.
36. Sharing a fibre www 8Km Community MPLS Cloud www VPN Business VPN Host Building 100 Mbps fibre Business Internet
37. Fibre self dig
38. Practical Access by fibre
39. Covering off the access element.. A rare (but beautiful) form of community project…. Is relatively future proof Has a more challenging business case…. But is generally viewed as “Future Proof” A good example is B4RN in Lancashire Or the developing B4GAL project in South Lanarkshire
40. Any Questions