Southland Digital Forum

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Southland Digital Forum
Robin McNeillVenture SouthlandJuly 2008
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Objective

• Southland is an excellent place to live, learn
  and do business, enabled by a world class,
  affordable telecommunications network which
  serves the whole of our community.

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Customer Demands

• Always on, always available
• Always best connected to the best service
• Secure
• Affordable
• Content and services match user needs

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Implicit expectation

• Southlanders can enjoy a world-class,
  affordable, ubiquitous telecommunications service
  at a universal price.

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Table of contents

• 1. Aims and Goals
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Background
• 4. The Digital Strategy Creating our Digital
  Future
• 5. Southland Telecommunications in 2013
• 6. Technology assumptions
• 7. Customer access network
• 8. Backhaul
• 9. Interconnection
• 10. Infrastructure and regulatory
• 11. Content and services
• 12. Security
• 13. Strategy summary
• 14. Appendices

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Digital Strategy Creating our Digital Future
(2005)
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Telecommunications services penetration in New
Zealand, 2007.
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Telecommunications in 2013

• Moores Law semiconductors double in complexity
  every two years.
• Corollary to Moores Law price of information
  and communications technology halves every two
  years.
• Metcalfes Law the utility (or value) of a
  network increases by the square of the number of
  its users.
• Corollary to Metcalfes Law there is a critical
  mass of connectivity after which the benefits of
  a network grow larger than its costs

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Telecommunications in 2013

• It takes 4 5 years for a technology to become
  available after first reporting in learned
  journals,
• It takes another 4 5 years for the technology
  to become affordable,
• We know what the network components will be for
  the next 10 years,
• The technology doesnt matter too much as it will
  be obsolete in 6 years!
• Maybe

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Key infrastructure for Southland

• Extend the existing broadband networks to provide
  wireless broadband coverage to all non-serviced
  rural Southland dwellings,
• Construction of an open-access municipal
  fibre-optic network in and around Invercargill,
• Inter-connection at the Southland Peering
  Exchange in Invercargill,
• Installation of a point of presence for the Kiwi
  Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN)
  in Invercargill,
• Construction of a public-good South Island
  fibre-optic cable backbone,
• Promote Southland as the preferred landing point
  for the proposed second trans-Tasman fibre-optic
  cable.

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Advocacy

• Prompt Telecom New Zealands cabinetisation
  programme to include more than the presently
  planned 75 of Southland dwellings,
• Strongly encourage all cellphone service
  providers to upgrade their Southland networks
  with alacrity to 3G, or later technology and
  extend their coverage to include the presently
  poorly served rural sector.

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Copper pair cable in Southland
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Telecom New Zealand cabinetisation programme
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Convergence
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Convergence a teenagers perspective

• I hardly ever use the landline telephone.
• Im always cellphone texting and on-line with
  Bebo, which is far more convenient than a home
  phone and easier to access (Instant
  communications with friends).
• Make it cheap (Price is an issue)
• Ir infrared pairing of cellphones is the best
  thing on two legs as you can share pictures for
  free from cellphone to cellphone. (Price is an
  issue)
• Bebo, MySpace and personal sites are important
  as people like to share every bit of their life.
  Its like putting up posters and photos in your
  bedroom, only much better. Who doesnt like
  sharing their photos of where they have been,
  what they have been doing with friends? (The
  Internet is an extension of their lifestyle and
  who they are).
• Cellphones are used to text, selected voice
  calling (when cheap enough), take photos, take
  video clips, get ski field reports, send
  pictures. (Cellphones are used almost as much as
  MP3 and JPEG memory sticks, cameras, alarm clocks
  and digital diaries as they are for
  communications).
• Having the right sort of cellphone is
  important.

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Blurring of personal and business lives
(after IDC, May 2008)
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Connection

• Customer access network
• Affordable, ubiquitous telecommunications service
  at a universal price
• Residential and commercial users are Always on,
  always available
• Reliable telephony, including access to emergency
  services
• Reliable, affordable short message text service
• Layer 2 network access throughout Invercargill
  for businesses and government
• Backhaul
• The backhaul and core network provides a quality
  of service that matches users applications and
  needs.
• Route diversity is available, regionally,
  nationally and internationally
• KAREN extension circuits are available to all
  research and educational facilities, and to main
  libraries
• Interconnection
• Interconnection between different network
  operators is efficient, reliable and affordable
• Internet peering takes place at Invercargill SIX
  between all ISPs and network providers in
  Southland
• VoIP telephony interconnection takes place in
  Invercargill
• KAREN interconnection is provided in Invercargill

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Content and services

• Everyone in Southland is able to participate in
  distance learning using appropriate
  telecommunications services, including
  multi-media
• Off-site data storage is provided in Invercargill
  and elsewhere in Southland
• Public-good walled garden Internet access is
  available throughout Invercargill
• Layer 3 network access is available throughout
  Invercargill for larger users
• All local and central government departments,
  including libraries, are able to share common GIS
  data
• Multi-media bridges in Invercargill provide
  low-latency
• Region-wide Internet resources enhance tourism
  and tourist experiences
• All sporting and cultural facilities provided
  with fibre-optic television connectivity
• Establishment of a large-scale server farm in
  Southland

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Infrastructure

• Southland is served by a modern, affordable and
  reliable telecommunications infrastructure that
  is capable of providing all those services that
  are required by users
• Network infrastructure and plant is able to be
  affordably, equitably and easily accessed by
  other network providers
• Complete broadband wireless coverage of Southland
• Local Government encourages network development
• Venture Southland continues to provide leadership
  and advocacy for telecommunications in Southland
• Venture Southland Charitable Trust owns a
  not-for-profit private company that supplies and
  manages public-good telecommunications networks
  and services provision throughout Southland as
  required
• Government departments aggregate their demand for
  network services in smaller centres to increase
  the economic viability of rural
  telecommunications networks

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Confidence

• Security
• A virtual server operates at SIX for schools and
  others
• Business and personal security are ensured
• Network and service providers
• Local and central government owned, or leased
  networks are provided to augment commercial
  networks and services to meet specialist
  requirements.
• Economic constraints to telecommunications
  networks in Southland are better understood
• The TSO guarantees truly ubiquitous, affordable
  telecommunications throughout Southland.

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Submissions

• Download document from www.southlandnz.com
• Submissions close 5 pm on Friday 15th August
  2008
• Email to robin_at_venturesouthland.co.nz or post to
  Venture Southland