Robert Ling- Delivering the Digital Region Beyond 2010
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Delivering the Digital Region
Robert Ling
Yorkshire Forward
Twitter: @ling_robert
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Infrastructure
• Strategic investment in areas of market failure
• Alignment and Aggregation of Public Sector investment
• Drive Private Sector Investment
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Rural Broadband
Broadband Gap
NYnet
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Digital RegionDigital Region is the first major regional deployment of 'Superfast Broadband' in the UK, not only bringing improved access to a whole range of entertainment, business and public sector services, but importantly attracting new investment and new jobs – for young and old – into the region
The network which is being designed, built and operated by Thales UK and will cover:
• 1.3 million people• 540,000 homes • 40,000 businesses
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Strategic Objectives of Digital Region• Stimulate economic growth and inward investment through the availability of high speed,
next generation digital communications services to business and residential users
• Provide a communications network that can be used by the commercial and public sectors to deliver more advanced services to both citizens and business
• Create an infrastructure that allows the public sector to utilise a network that will provide more effective and efficient corporate services.
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What is Digital Region?• Next Generation Access Broadband network
• Ubiquitous across South Yorkshire• Independent & Wholesale• Single Interconnect enables access to approx 600,000 homes & SME’s• Network Operations Centre (NOC), based in Doncaster
• Optical fibre replacing copper wire from telephone exchange to street cabinet, (FTTC) with state of the art VDSL technology• Greater bandwidth & guaranteed bandwidth• Quality of Service (QoS)• Symmetrical bandwidth to support the enhanced video and tele -
applications as they become the norm• Access to multiple SP’s down same connection
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Local business & wider economic benefits
Raise productivityTasks carried out more quickly and effectively
Improve competitivenessMore services, especially for smaller businesses
Investment and innovationPotential clustering effects
Businesses
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More choicesImproved competition, coverage and cost
More servicesCompetition stimulates innovative services
More opportunitiesIncluding employment and learning opportunities
ConsumersLocal business & wider economic benefits
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Public service innovationIncluding education and health
Addressing digital inclusion Ubiquitous and timely coverage
Network effects and knowledge spilloverIncreasing number of users
Society and GovernmentLocal business & wider economic benefits
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Business Model
Costs
• Build
• Fibre
• Enabling
• Cabinets
• Switching
• Operations Centre
Funding• Yorkshire Forward
• ERDF
• Local Authorities
• Business Partner
• Wholesale revenues- Private sector- Public sector
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Business Model
• Wholesale, open access and independent
• Balanced deployment
• 97% coverage of South Yorkshire
• Take Up modelled on to 21%
• Revenue share with partner, after costs
• Option for Fibre to the Premise – new build & regen
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Current Status
Digital Region has currently rolled out • 40% of infrastructure in the ground. • More than 280km of fibre-optic cabling across the
region. Out of a total network dig of ~700km, • Installed kit into 16 of the 54 exchanges covering South
Yorkshire, services commissioned in 12• Switching-on more than 370 street cabinets, services
available to more than 120,000 premises
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www.yorkshire-forward.com
www.digitalregion.co.uk