Community Broadband Project

October 2012 - Skye

1 KCBP Project Overview - Setting

Kinmuck Project Setting

N E , 10 No miles from Little or no movement . broadband Exchange from Rural. available. miles away. BigTelCo

Community Desires !

Work at Home. Social E-mail. Cloud New business start ups. Kinmuck Schoolwork at media. storage. home. Avoid Video conf VOIP. Internet Online Project Commuting. &. Skype. TV. shopping.

2 Customer Speed Before the Project

3 Project Quick Facts & Status

Design Community Issues Status Now

► Deliver by Wireless ► Caleycom – not for ► Match Funding ► Operational - March ► Carrier Class Network profit vehicle ► Wind turbines 2012 ► Re use and recycle ► Strong Community ► Planning Permission ► >50 Houses ► Capable of delivery of Support & Take Up ► User expectations ► >200 -300 devices at any one time up to 100mb/sec to ► Self supporting by ► Amount of work! customer Subscriptions ► Self sustaining ► Hi availability & low ► Leader Funding – ► Looking to expand maintenance Project total cost ~£80K

4 Customer Speed now (typical)

5 Base Stations & Backhaul

• Quarry Road Aberdeen City to Hill of Cimond, • 16.8 Km • Licensed Radio Link (OFCOM) • 13Ghz spectrum • Fibre Backhaul from Thus – • 100Mb bearer • Ceragon Radio (up to 350Mb/sec • Aberdeen site donated by Community Member • Hill of – paying Agri-business rental

6 Base Stations & Backhaul

Hill of Crimond Using existing steel framed farm building.

Quarry Road Using existing Disused 13M Steel ex Telecoms Tower

7 6 Local Micro Repeater Sites

• Kinmuck Central – New Telegraph Pole, • electricity supply, cabinets – planning was needed

• East Kinmuck – Existing Site donated by community • - operational. Electricity supply, cabinets required.

• North Kinmuck – House of Community Member – being built

• South Kinmuck (not shown)

• Sinkies Corner (not shown)

• Cabin Equestrian Centre (not shown)

8 Typical Micro Repeater Site

• Recycled or Existing (disused) Electricity Pole • Small Comms Cabinet & Electrical Cabinet • Uninterruptable Power Supply • Cisco Switch • Power Over Ethernet Adaptors

• Point to Point Radio Link • Point to Multi Point Radio Link

• Lighting Protection & Earth Bonding

• Very low power consumption / visual impact

Kinmuck Central

9 Typical Customer Install

• Small Antenna • PoE Injector • Very Low Power Consumption

10 Sitenett – Main Design and Build Contractors

11 Next Steps

Superfast Develop & Sustain & Connectivity Build stabilize what in November Community we have 2012 Ownership

Progressively Improve Build Whitespace resilience, Customer Trial Coming and back Next Base Soon…….. office systems Steps…..

12 Contact Details

Community Leader & Project Director

Simon James 12 Balbithan View Kinmuck Aberdeenshire AB51 0LF

07798-920187 [email protected] www.caleycom.net

Community portal: www.kinmuck.org

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