Cybermoor Study Visit - Community Broadband Tech options

1. TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS

2. TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS
Wireless
Fibre to the Home
Fibre to the Cabinet

3. Take into account
Your vision
Funding – how much can be invested, what can
you afford
Running costs
Environment
Community feeling
FINDING THE RIGHT MIX

4. WiFi based with connection into
school
 Good start
 Established relay points around
Alston Moor
 Interference became a growing
problem
 Demarcation of problems with
customer equipment
 Flexible and works on multiple
devices
 CLEO link from County Council
WHERE WE STARTED

5. Proxim equipment upgraded
backbone links of the network
Upgrade customer equipment to
work in 5.8Ghz band
 More control
 Higher bandwidth
Still some interference problems
Impossible to increase backhau
WIRELESS UPGRADE

6. Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online
(CLEO)
Northumberland County Council / Virgin
Media
Virgin Media
BACKHAUL

7. Mixture of technologies
Cisco Aironet 350 series (2.4Ghz)
Proxim Tsunami (5.8Ghz)
Ceragon Microwave links
Ubiquiti
Azotel Management System
WIRELESS

8. FIBRE
Fibre
Underground Emtelle fibre and
ducting
Overground Corning optisnap
Calix end user equipment

9. CORNING

10. EMTELLE - DUCTING

11. ACTIVE EQUIPMENT

12. Wireless
 Faster to deploy
 Low up front cost
 Needs replacing after a few years
 Interference issues
 Higher management costs
Fibre
 Expensive to deploy in remote areas
 Less prone to vagaries of rural power
 More reliable service
 Sufficient capacity to last for 30 years
 End user equipment lasts 10 years
SUMMARY