Stephen Hilton, Bristol Futures. Presentation to INCA Ultra-Connected Smart Cities launch

1. Why We Need Ultra-Connected
Smart Cities: Bristol’s
Experience
Stephen Hilton, Service Director, Bristol
Futures
Bristol Futures
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2. Bristol Futures
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3. Demand for Ultrafast
“This company is seeing a rapidly increasing demand for
symmetrical, high quality, Internet bandwidth that is not
currently being delivered at an affordable level”
Mike Prudence, Technical Coordinator, Films at 59
Bristol Futures
Stephen Hilton, Service Director Slide 3

4. Wifi
“Being able to access email, communicate with customers
and suppliers while on the move across the city is vital to
growth”
Guy Kingston, Federation of Small Businesses
Bristol Futures
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5. Fibre

B-Net

Council owned and managed

76km ducting
“Aardman quite often has broadcast type jobs
that can require us to rapidly set up high
bandwidth links to clients”
Howard Arnault-Ham, Head of IT, Aardman
Bristol Futures
Stephen Hilton, Service Director Slide 5

7. Innovation and Opportunity

Ultrafast Demonstration Studio

Living Lab

Smart City Programme

Service Transformation
Bristol Futures
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8. Gigabit Bristol

Readily available Gigabit connectivity

5000 businesses

5000 University students

5000 Social housing tenants

7 million people passing through each year

Citywide wifi network
Bristol Futures
Stephen Hilton, Service Director Slide 8

9. Thanks
stephen.hilton@bristol.gov.uk
Bristol Futures
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