Internet Connectivity for Schools

PMI Croatia – Contest for the PoY 2012Customer: ALBtelecom sh.p.a

Performing organization: Mrežne tehnologije VERSO d.o.o.

Project manager: Dalibor Tužinski

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About Verso

HQ in Croatia

6 Country Offices

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Customers in Countries

mio. EUR Revenue

Zagreb

Beograd

İstanbul

Ankara

Sarajevo

Tiranë

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Albania (Republika e Shqipërise)

◊ Population: 2,994,667 (2011)

◊ Area: 28,748 km2

◊ Capital: Tirana (600.000)

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Kosovo

KosovoMontenegro

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Albania – The Mith

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Albania – The Reality

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Albania – Tourist Destination

Verso

offices

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About ALBtelecom

◊ ALBtelecom is the oldest and biggest telecom operator in Albania, present and operating already 100 years.

◊ It is incumbent fixed network operator with ISP and fixed telephony services.

◊ Together with it’s mobile brunch EagleMobile it’s most significant market player on Albanian market.

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Internet Connectivity for Schools

Konekcioni i shkollave ne internet ne Republikën e Shqipërisë

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The Goal of the project

◊ Project stakeholders are

X Schools => enable students to access the global knowledge sources

X Ministry of Education => increase the quality of the Albanian educational system and broaden the knowledge base of the young population in Albanian rural areas

X ALBtelecom => increase revenue and prepare platform for new revenue generators in rural areas

X Verso => create revenue and establish as a trusted business partner in Albania

◊ The Goal of the project is to

X Enable Internet access for 2000 Albanian primary and secondary schools within rural areas

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Project enviroment I

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Project environment II

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Project Environment III

◊ Albanian Ministry of Education awarded the ALBtelecom with project of Internet connectivity for schools

◊ Depending from the presence of the Service Provider on the geographical location where the school is located, following mediums will be used for schools connectivity:

X Fiber to the school

X ADSL

X Wireless Point-to-Point orPoint-to-Multi-Point

X Satellite connection

Fig. 1. Schools network general scheme

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ALBtelecom showcase

• Wherever geographical challenging locations needs to be connected

• Last mile infrastructure based on wireless links in the 5.4 GHz spectrum using Motorola point-to-multipoint wireless technology

• Backhauling using Ceragonpoint-to-point wireless links

• Aggregation by Cisco access switches

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ME4900

Albtelecom centerEagle Mobile

aggregation tower

Eagle Mobile

access tower

Ceragon

ptp

Ceragon

ptpMotorola

AP

Ceragon

ptp

Ceragon

ptp

Motorola

Subscriber module

School

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ptp

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ptp

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acc. tower p

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edge device

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ptp

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Eagle Mobile TDM

network

or Hybrid TDM/IP

Eagle Mobile TDM

network

or Hybrid TDM/IP

Eagle Mobile TDM

network

or Hybrid TDM/IP

◊ 2.000 schools in rural areas

◊ 600 connected with ADSL

◊ 500 connected with satelite

◊ 900 connected with WL

Fig. 2. ALBtelecom WL scenarios

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Wireless Point-to-Point or Point-to-Multi-Point

◊ This option will be used in cases where the Service Provider does not have Fiber, ADSL or HFC close to the schools building, and the school building has LOS (line of sight) with a tower of Service Provider

◊ Ceragon PtP links are chosen to be used as backhaul

◊ Motorola PtMP is to be used as a last mile infrastructure.

◊ The advantages of this medium

X Fast deployment

X High connection stability

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Fig. 3. Wireless connectivity

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Network Tree (Shkoder)

BKTC .64 C .58 C .66 C .74 C .76 C .78

C .63 C .57 C .65 C .73 C .75 C .77

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C .56C .102C .52 C .42 :151 C .60 C .72C .106 C .82 C .84

C .55 C .101 SH1003 C .51 C .41 :152 C .59 C .71 C .105 C .81 C .83 KK1010

M.85 M.55M.56M.57M.58 M.79M.80 M.31 M.7 M.13M.14 M.37 M.169 M.170 M.151M.152M.153 M.154M.1 C .54 BKT SW CMM CMM SW CMM SW BKT SW CMM SW CMM

M.115 C .80

C .44 C .46 C .48 C .50 C .70 C .96 C .94 C .86 C .88 C .90

C .53 C .43 C .49 C .79 C .95 C .93 P C .87 C .89

M.103 M.104M.105 C .45 C .47 M.73 P MM2001 C .69 M.157 M.121 M.122 M.123 M.127M.128 C .85 M.139M.140M.141 M.133M.134M.106 SW CMM SW CMM SW CMM SW CMM SW CMM

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Shkoder subnet: 192.168.128.0 / 255.255.248.0 C .86 means Ceragon 192.168.128.86

ShkoderSH0001

Shkoder_C4948E - 192.168.128.1

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Schools rollout seriously started

September 2011

The Verso part of ALBtelecom school project

◊ Project deliverables (equipment)

X Cisco, Ceragon, Motorola, Orion, Meanwell

◊ Project deliverables (services overview)

X 854 Site Surveys done (NLOS,no el.,no access,no road,)

X 224 PtP links done (17 regions tree)

X 452 APs (coverage of whole Albania, enables 50.000 subs)

X 886 schools connected (schools cabinet on Internet)

◊ Project milestones

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Project initiation

October 2010

Backhaul deployment started

April 2011

Rollout finished early

December 2011

Acceptance and

project closing

January 2012

Project awarded

February 2011

Thank you for your attention!

Mrežne tehnologije VERSO d.o.o. l Froudeova 5, Zagreb, Croatia

T +385 1 6596600 l F +385 1 6536873 l info@verso.hr l www.verso.hr

Project manager: Dalibor Tužinski