Super-Connected Cities Why Bother?

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1 Super-Connected Cities Why Bother?, Bristol Futures Slide 1

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3 Demand, Demand, Demand This company is seeing a rapidly increasing demand for symmetrical, high quality, Internet bandwidth that is not currently being delivered at an affordable level Mike Prudence, Technical Coordinator, Films at 59 Aardman quite often has broadcast type jobs that can require us to rapidly set up high bandwidth links to clients Howard Arnault-Ham, Head of IT, Aardman Being able to access , communicate with customers and suppliers while on the move across the city is vital to growth Guy Kingston, Federation of Small Businesses Slide 3

4 Transformational Infrastructure Innovative partnerships between industry, academia, authority and community Future City Living Labs Enterprise Zone and Inward Investment Public Sector Transformation Slide 4

5 Bristol City Council Existing Connectivity! B-Net Fibre Network Council owned and managed 76km ducting and dark fibre! B-Open Wifi Network (60 Council hotspots and over 600 University)! Existing cooperative approach to PSN! New opportunity - Urban Broadband Fund 4-12m capital for Gigabit Bristol Slide 5

6 GigaBit Bristol Creating a World Class Showcase Targets 5000 businesses 5000 university students 5000 social housing tenants 9 million people passing through every year Connectivity Gigbit readily available to SME s Symetrical is essential Ultrafast Mbit/s minimum for all 100% Wi-Fi coverage City wide Slide 6

7 Where is it? Slide 7

8 Wi-Fi Overview Slide 8

9 GB BRISTOL Programme Overview DCMS Cabinet Super Connected Cities Group LEP User Representatives Programme Board Technology Stakeholders Project Assurance WS1 Stimulate the Demand To deliver a marketing showcase that stimulates gigabit broadband demand WS2 - Accelerating Business: Digital Zone Fibre To deliver gigabit fibre to Digital Enterprise Zone including Temple Quarter WS3 - Accelerating Access: City Wide Wi-Fi Hotspots To deliver City Wide Wi-Fi at acceptable speed and cost WS4 - Opportunity & Innovation Promote the opportunity afforded by gigabit broadband and capture the innovation. Slide 9

10 Fixed Pilots BT - FTTP Main focus Paintworks Broadwalk and Wells Rd locations added for proof of concept During pilot no connection or rental charges from BT Openreach BT FTTP 38 MDU s (Flats) Pilot parameters to be defined Slide 10

11 WiFi Pilots BCC BOpen Main focus Plot 3, 6 and Temple Gate Proof of concept N meshing Test of building penetration and area coverage Free at the point of use Unsupported with no SLA s " VM - Wireless " Not a trial for public access " Proof of concept on deployment of small cell wireless equipment. " Pilot during August " Independent report to be produced. Slide 11

12 State Aid! Current guidance indicated that state aid within grey areas was an issue! Birmingham have successfully challenged this! Majority of Bristol scheme is in Grey areas! EU consultation on new Broadband Guidance refers to FTTC as an interim measure! Proposes Fibre to the End User as ultrafast broadband! Final Gigabit Bristol submission will be rated against current & consultation guidelines Slide 12

13 Summary - Why Bother? COMPETIVENESS Cities as champions of economic growth e.g. Bristol Enterprise Zone target to create/attract 250 new businesses, new jobs INVENTIVENESS Future Cities - ensuring headroom to stimulate economic, social and environmental innovation SHARED VALUE Cities to lead the way in developing new public-privatepeople based partnerships to finance and utilize infrastructure. Slide 13

14 Thanks Hilton Slide 14