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July 6th 1 Laying the foundations for Growth” “Connecting Nottingham” NextGen Roadshow - Nottingham

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“ Laying the foundations for Growth”. NextGen Roadshow - Nottingham. “C onnecting Nottingham”. Connecting Nottingha m – Our vision for the city. Providing 21 st century communications in Nottingham to connect people to businesses and public services - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: “ Laying the foundations for Growth”

July 6th1

“Laying the foundations for Growth”

“Connecting Nottingham”

NextGen Roadshow - Nottingham

Page 2: “ Laying the foundations for Growth”

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Connecting Nottingham – Our vision for the city

• Providing 21st century communications in Nottingham– to connect people to businesses and public services– to connect businesses and public services to customers– drive economic growth to the city of Nottingham

• attract High-tech companies to the city

• What infrastructure is needed– A Wireless or fibre network across Nottingham

• City & suburb wide coverage– including hard to reach areas

– Centrally located data centre with national & global connectivity• Carrier Neutral to drive competition• Independent network gateway to drive an ‘Open Network’

Page 3: “ Laying the foundations for Growth”

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Connecting Nottingham – Welcome to The Portal

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The Portal – Located in the centre of Nottingham

• Davidsons Group owned site

• Brand new state of the art 90,000 ft Tier 3+ carrier neutral colocation Data Centre

• Environmentally friendly design features & engineered as next generation fit for purpose efficient modular & scalable data centre

• Space for over 700 - 1200 Mid to High Density racks (up to 20kW per rack)

• Carrier Class and Carrier Neutral with Global Crossing, Cable and Wireless & Hibernia operating on site along with extensive dark fibre from NTL, BT, Kingston & Colt

• Direct access to international transatlantic fibres & European access routes, global internet exchange points & peering locations

• ‘Midlands’ Internet Exchange point location

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The Portal - The HUB of communications for Nottingham

Dedicated protected links to both London & Manchester national data centres

Onsite Fibre infrastructure from national & global carriers

Access to national fibre network to all UK major cities

Diverse power from regional main power station Access to 2 airports for European/international

routes National Rail infrastructure for easy access M1 Corridor and central location Local universities for skills and

collaboration

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The Portal Data Centre – Main points

Major Power Availability

Central UK Location

High Physical Security

CarrierNeutral

Trusted Brand Infrastructure

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Connecting Nottingham – Delivering our vision

• First building block is in place - The Portal

• Inherited a major asset from the closure of BR computing

• Strategic infrastructure of fibres that all start from and terminate from the site

• The major national & global network carriers all have a presence on the site

• The Portal is extremely secure with abundant power onsite

• Centrally located in Nottingham

Page 8: “ Laying the foundations for Growth”

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Connecting Nottingham – Wireless Network

• Legacy investment – Core base station at Victoria Centre

• Network now consists of 7 Base stations across the city

• Coverage extends across 60% of the city and has reach of 15km

• 1 GigE capacity over core base stations offering synchronous contended and uncontended speeds from 2Mbit/s up to 50Mbit/s

• Excellent service levels (99.99%)

• Clients include local authorities - Rushcliffe Borough Council, private sector operators – Confetti, Victim Support, Ingeus, etc

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Connecting Nottingham – View from one of our base stations

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Connecting Nottingham – Our current wireless coverage

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Connecting Nottingham – Confetti Case Study

• Confetti located in central Nottingham City campus

• Required satellite office located in Colwick Industrial Estate to be connected to City campus

• Colwick had slow broadband connectivity

• Provided 2 Mbit/s synchronous connection providing quality of service for both data and voice transmission

• Connected both sites over wireless on a private network

• A hard to reach area solved by the EMNET wireless network

Page 12: “ Laying the foundations for Growth”

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Connecting Nottingham – Planning for the future

• Working with our partners to provide even faster wireless across the City using 4G/LTE technology

• 4G/LTE will drive a new set of advanced services across the city– New wireless services for blue light & mobile workers– New wireless services for the public transport network– New wireless digital advertising services – location specific advertising – New wireless CCTV services to increase public safety – New wireless cloud based services– New wireless games services

• The Portal is the connecting hub that will enable these new services – attracting new businesses to the city of Nottingham which will create and offer these new

services to the public and business market

Page 13: “ Laying the foundations for Growth”

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Connecting Nottingham – Thank you for listening

Questions & Answers