Robert Ling- Delivering the Digital Region Beyond 2010

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

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