Transcript Broadband Authority Recommendations Work completed ■ Mapping/cluster analysis of residents, businesses, business/industrial parks, commercial areas, anchor tenants ■ ■ ■ ■ Eight major technology systems/vendors analyzed Order of Magnitude Cost.

Broadband Authority
Recommendations
Work completed
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Mapping/cluster analysis of residents, businesses,
business/industrial parks, commercial areas, anchor tenants
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Eight major technology systems/vendors analyzed
Order of Magnitude Cost estimates
Four different business models analyzed
Four different courses of action developed
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Detailed cost estimates for four each course of action
Financial analysis of the courses of action
Operational cost estimates
Case studies of other community projects
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Broadband is the road,
not one of the trucks
Communities a modern digital road
system that will deliver many kinds
of services, not just Internet
$844,723,675 will be spent on
broadband in Louisa County
...over 30 years, nearly a billion
dollars!
Broadband is NOT a number. It
means that your businesses have as
much bandwidth as they need to
compete in the global economy.
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Do the math for Louisa
County
Households on dial-up
Households with some
broadband
No Internet
9%
72%
19%
Number of households
1,174
9,393
2,479
Typical monthly telecom
cost
Local phone: $25
Long distance: $25
TV $65
Dial up Internet: $20
Local phone: $25
Long distance: $25
TV $75
Broadband Internet: $45
Local phone: $25
Long distance: $25
TV $65
Total monthly cost
$135
$170
$115
Total annual cost
$1,620.00
$2,040.00
$1,380.00
30 year residential cost
$57,063,204
$574,858,944
$102,619,836
Total 30 year
telecom cost
$844,732,675
Courses of Action
Course of Action
Description
School Fiber
Provides a basic building block for future
expansion. Long term contract with schools can
serve as financial base of support.
Wireless Towers
Joint use partnerships will be used to maximize
benefits.
Business Park Fiber
Relatively low cost opportunity that can provide
important economic development benefits.
Fiber to the Home
Joint use partnerships with providers, where
neighborhood/rural route demand is high.
Executive Summary
The LCBA proposes a multi-year plan to acquire, build and
install the infrastructure needed to deploy broadband Internet
County-wide
Use a combination of fiber optic and fixed wireless
System will not compete with private Internet providers
Private service providers will use the system to sell to their own customers
The proposed system is budgeted at $5.8M, and will have a probable
payback period of 19 years
Worst case payback period is 30 years, assuming commercial revenues
are very limited
Major funding sources already identified: County school system and a lowinterest rate loan from VRA
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Technical Overview
System uses a mixed network
of fiber and fixed wireless
provided by a series of nine (9)
towers
Tower locations were chosen as the
optimized combination of broadcast
coverage, cost and ease of
construction
Fiber optic cable will be laid along
major roads in the county, and
terminate at County schools
Easy, low cost build out
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Technical Overview,
cont’d
Fiber cable will carry high speed Internet directly to County
schools, as well as to residences and businesses along the
route.
Standard Gigabit connection for schools, businesses, and homes
Schools will have 10x more bandwidth than they do now
School connections can be upgraded easily to 10Gig or 100Gig
Fixed wireless broadcast from a network of towers will
provide “last mile” broadband to residences and businesses
that are not co-located with the fiber optic run
10x to 20x faster than DSL, 100x faster than dial up for residential
Higher speeds (10 Meg to 50 Meg) available for businesses
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Schedule
Implementation and pre-construction
engineering could start this summer
Construction would start as soon as VRA
loan is approved
Fiber to schools would be completed in
approximately 6-8 months
Fiber would be ready for use by schools for
2016-2017 school year
Wireless towers connected by fiber, would be
ready use at or before fiber is completed.
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Budget Estimate
Budget Category
School fiber, including equipment, materials and
construction
Other fiber costs for business, residential
access, including equipment, materials, and
construction
Wireless tower costs, including construction and
equipment
Engineering, permitting, project management,
network configuration, testing, technical services
Total cost, including 10% contingency
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Estimated Cost
$2,142,000
$1,519,000
$853,000
$765,000
$5,806,900
Summary
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Authority goals
■ County-wide focus on improved broadband everywhere
■ Fiscally conservative, with incremental projects
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Louisa needs both fiber and wireless
■ Fiber is needed to support business attraction and retention
■ Fiber is critical to support K12 schools
■ Improved wireless access is needed for student Internet use from home
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Early deployment to K12 schools, business/industrial parks,
some residential sub-divisions
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May take 3-5 years to get most homes and businesses
connected