Diapositiva 1

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The WI-PIE Program
Venice 6 november 2007
Margherita Italiano
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Agenda

• Something about CSI-Piemonte
• Something about Piemonte
• Something about the WI-PIE Program
• Model
• Activities
• Results

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CSI-Piemonte
Regional-based inter-University
Consortium and Leading Italian ICT operator
Founded in 1977 by
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54 Consortium Members

• Mission
• To be a system integrator acting as a neutral
  element, to help members to provide services to
  citizens and businesses
• To transfer academic competences in public
  planning, in order to update PA technological
  skills over time
• To aggregate public demand, in order to create
  scale economies and make room for ICT companies,
  favouring the economic and productive development
  of the territory

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Piemonte Region

• Located on the north-west of
• Italy, bordering with France
• and Switzerland
• Capital city Turin
• 4,5 Ml inhabitants
• 8 Provinces
• 1.206 Municipalities/Towns
• 8,7 contribution to the national GDP (1.475
  Billions in the 2006)
• 5,3 unemployment rate (6,8 national)

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Territory
Long Term Digital Divide
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Digital Divide in Piemonte

• Availability of Broadband
• Broadband covers 82.1 of the population
• Broadband reaches only one-third of the
  municipalities (34) with peaks in the
  metropolitan provinces (90 of population and
  companies)
• Families
• Families take advantage of new technologies
  (57.9 have computers, 46,8 are connected to
  internet)
• Broadband is little used (21.06)
• The only widely-used applications are e-mail and
  browsers (respectively 86.7 and 85.9 of
  habitual Internet users)
• Companies
• Mainly investment in hardware and software
• Use websites almost exclusively as show-cases
• Are only partly affected by the diffusion of
  broadband (73.4)
• Are prepared to explore the opportunities offered
  by e-commerce (maninly for procurement)
• Municipalities
• Invest very little in new technologies
  (especially small municipalities)
• Use websites almost exclusively as show case
• Are insufficiently affected by the diffusion of
  broadband (34)

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Characteristics and Scope
What is WI-PIE?
A multi-year regional program promoted and
supported by the regional administration of
Piemonte, aimed at bringing broadband
connectivity all over the territory by 2008 for
the intelligent and programmed development of the
region.
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WI-PIE program
Solution
A Fiber Optical Backbone to support different
kind of traffic Development of local ITC
market Using Wireless solution to reach rural
territory (satellite, WiFi, WiMAX) Developing new
Services
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Strategic lines
Goals

• Connect disadvantaged rural areas of the
  territory, thus increasing the availability of
  broadband and new services to everyone
• Promote a technical-culture, to increase the use
  of Internet Services and to raise Piemonte
  standing internationally in terms of ICT
• Increase the Productive system competitiveness of
  the local manufacturing system by creating new
  market opportunities
• Facilitate technology transfer among research
  school and business
• Promote new BroadBand Services (Security,
  Sanitary, ..)
• Better Communication between Public
  Administration, citizens, business

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Basic criteria

• No overlapping on market action and interventions
  supportability
• Coherence with national and international
  initiative
• Technological neutrality and Open Access
• Focus on real need

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The WI-PIE program integrates and coordinates
different sources of funds
Funding

• Total amount is about 100 Million over
  2002-2007 period, divided as follows
• About 7 M are National Funds (CIPE)
• About 20 M are European Structural Funds
• About 10 M are Provincial Funds
• About 15 M are Private Contributions
• About 48 M are Regional Funds (ICT Regional
  Department Funds)
• About 250,00 are PIC INTERREG IIIA-2000-2006
  Funds (ALCOTRA)

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Actors involved the key players

• The success of the programme depends on the
  synergy between the parties involved and the way
  in which they successfully work together to
  multiply the territory's resources.

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The role of CSI-Piemonte

• Single technical and administrative unit, i.e.
  CSI-Piemonte
• Coordination among all Public Administrations
  implementing different kind of actions and
  involved at different levels
• This made it possible to have a concerted
  programming structure, as a result of an agreed
  regulation among all public subjects or between
  the public competent subject and the public or
  private entities for the implementation of
  different actions referred to a single
  development objective requiring a single
  evaluation of the tasks.

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Action Plan

• Network Development Action Plan
• Regional Backbone
• Provincial Infrastructures (sub-backbones)
• Local Wi-FI/Satellite Infrastructure
• MoU REGIONE PIEMONTE e TELECOM ITALIA
• REDUCE DIGITAL DIVIDE Project (RDD)

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Network Model
Access Network
Access Network
Regional Backbone
Access Network
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Regional backbone - objectives

• Regional-spread fibre optic backbone for
• Business and privates
• Academic and research
• Public Administration services

Links strategic points on Piemonte territory
Multi-service backbone to support business,
privates, research and P.A. traffic
Value ?14 Million
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The Multi-services logic
3 different goals are identified for the same
infrastrucuture

• DISTRIBUITED INTERNET EXCHANGE (TOP-IX)
• INNOVATION PLATFORM (TOP-IX)
• PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION NETWORK

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TOP-IX Consortium

• Consortium of private and public operators
  
• Internet Interchange Platform
• Opportunities
• Participation Requirements Autonomous System
  (not only ISP) and Public Peering (AS
  announcement)
• Private peering full route announcement and IP
  transit
• Focus on innovative technologies

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Provincial infrastructure Organizational model
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Provincial infrastructure - Architecture
At least 12 fibers
BINDING
BACKBONE
point of original (Bckbone node or Alfa catch
basin node)
At least 12 fibers
At least 12 fibers
New realisation (type A or type B) Free
exploitation (type C) Point of
Origin POP Priority point Centrale catch basin
XDSL operator Intercepted area by
POP Industrial area
At least 24 fibers
At least 96 fibers
At least 24 fibers
At least 24 fibers
At least 12 fibers
backbone
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Provincial sub-backbones economics
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Infrastructural actions - timing
Tenders start-up June 05
Accensione Nov 06
REGIONAL BACKBONE
Tenders start-up Sept 06
Completamento infrastrutture Apr 08
Aggiudicazione definitiva Jul 07
PROVINCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
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Access actions

• Local Wi-FI / Satellite Infrastructure
• MoU Regione Piemonte and TELECOM ITALIA
• Reduce DigitaL Divide Project (RDD)

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WiFI and Satellite for groups of rural
municipalities (Comunità Montane)

• 48 Comunità Montane(468 Municipalities, 627.715
  inhabitants)
• 42 Comunita Montane eligible for funding
• (458 Municipalities, 583.209 abitanti)
• 16 local operators involved
• Satellite WiFI to reach Municipalities sites
• Opportunities for the Operators to provide
  private access on the WiFI infrastructure

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Regione Piemonte-Telecom Italia Memorandum of
Understanding


WI-PIE Programme created a particularly
favorable territorial context for broadband
development capable to support market operators
action 21st June 2006 MoU signature between
Regione Piemonte and Telecom Italia
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MoU - Regione Piemonte undertakings

• Invest available funds in strategic INNOVATIVE
  SERVICES
• Promote initiatives to foster broadband adoption
  and DEMAND

No funds have been transferred from Regione
Piemonte to Telecom Italia
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MoU - Telecom Italia undertakings

• Drastically reduce regional digital divide
  through a COVERAGE extension plan (96 telephone
  population), on 2006-2008 period
• and furthermore
• Promote technology RESEARCH
• Contribute to innovative SERVICES research within
  Regione Piemonte areas of interest
• Support the reduction of CULTURAL divide

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ADSL coverage (June 2006)
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ADSL coverage (end of 2008)
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The areas excluded by
Memorandum of Understanding
N Municipalities
900
Telecom coverage 100
Municipalities 15.000 citenzs
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295
REDUCE DIGITAL DIVIDE (RDD)
NOT COVERED
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RDD - Objectives

• Infrastructural actions to guarantee broadband
  services availability in ares excluded from the
  MoU between Regione Piemonte and Telecom
• Objective 100 coverage (end of 2008)
• Mobility and nomadic system Internet access
  set-up over all regional territory

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Thank You for your attention!

• margherita.italiano_at_csi.it