robert ling- delivering the digital region beyond 2010
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Delivering the Digital Region
Robert Ling
Yorkshire Forward
Twitter: @ling_robert
Infrastructure
• Strategic investment in areas of market failure
• Alignment and Aggregation of Public Sector investment
• Drive Private Sector Investment
Rural Broadband
Broadband Gap
NYnet
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
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.
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
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
More choicesImproved competition, coverage and cost
More servicesCompetition stimulates innovative services
More opportunitiesIncluding employment and learning opportunities
ConsumersLocal business & wider economic benefits
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
Business Model
Costs
• Build
• Fibre
• Enabling
• Cabinets
• Switching
• Operations Centre
Funding• Yorkshire Forward
• ERDF
• Local Authorities
• Business Partner
• Wholesale revenues- Private sector- Public sector
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
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
www.yorkshire-forward.com
www.digitalregion.co.uk