International Summit for Community Wireless Networks

Success story between Guifi.net & puntCAT

International Summit for Community Wireless Networks

BarcelonaOctober 5th 2012

Montserrat CastelltortJosep Masoliver

Fundació puntCAT

Who, what, how

● Non-for-profit private foundation

● non-political

● Bottom up initiative• ISOC-CAT• Academia• TV • Companies • Individuals ... the whole community !

● .cat is a common so we work for everybody

● Financially self-funded

● We manage the .cat gTLD and we reinvest to close the digital gap and push the information and knowledge society amongst the Catalan speaking community



.cat.com

.net

.org.biz

.info

.es.fr .de

.mx.eu

.asia

.aero

.coop

.travel

.it

.tv

.br

.co

.fm

.cn

.مصر

.рф

.امارات

. 中中

. 中中

. சிஙகபபர

.გე

.भारत

.срб

10th Studienkreis – BarcelonaJanuary 21st 2010 Jordi Iparraguirre

Perpinyà

Barcelona

Palma

València

Alacant

Eivissa

l'Alguer

Castelló

Tarragona

Girona

Lleida

Andorra

Menorca

Even if .cat aims the world, here is where to find 95% of the Catalan

speaking population

France

Spain

Catalan speaking community

We swapped the passport for a dictionary to get a TLD


● Catalan is a romance language like Portuguese, Castilian (Spanish), French or Italian.

● Spoken by 10 million people in the eastern part of the Iberian peninsula and Balearic islands

● Mirrors a cultural, linguistic and national reality

● Long track record of history, language, culture and self-rule, and a key player in the south European Middle Age and Renaissance

● Made invisible by the Utrecht Treaty (1713) and Spanish confederation becoming absolutism

● So Catalan was not invented to apply for a TLD !


Where do we compete?

Foto Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Europe


We're changing the rules!

We cannot compete on volume or prices ...

.. we compete on quality, service and imagination ...

● Technological leadership

● Security

● Adaptability and flexibility

… always focused on our registrants' needs and trends!

.cat's growth model

Quantity

Quality


What means quality for us?

Technological leadership● IDN, EPP, IPv6 …

● Whois data protection ...

Security● DNSSEC, Anycast, ...

● DANE …

● 2nd gTLD and 6th most secure TLD (McAfee)

● No remarkable domain disputes

Adaptability & flexibility● Direct customer support: 8,4 / 10


10th Studienkreis – BarcelonaJanuary 21st 2010 Jordi Iparraguirre

We're in the right direction!

1/Gen/12


Renewal rates > 85% and very high “TLD information density” ratio


.cat & Guifi.networking for the community

2010 Ajuts puntCAT


2010 Ajuts puntCAT

http://guifi.net/guifiproxy

47.480 Downloads

2.378 Average Daily Users

Source code:https://addons.mozilla.org/ca/firefox/addon/guifiproxy/



.cat & Guifi.netproviding services


Common needs

Guifi.netfast internet proxy

neutral distribution point (NIX)

puntCATexpand services

balanced location from ISPs

3rd & 4th quarter 2010General collaboration agreement

List common requirements

Common problem:budget constrains


Implementation

End 2010Find good locationSet & sign a SLA

January 2011Launch!

Resources:

● Rack space

● 1 Gbps symmetric Internet connection

● fiber circuits around Catalunya


How we share the resources?

Guifi.net => service provider for a gTLD!

September 201212 partners sharing resources

(4 space & connectivity)

Main keys:share the resources

share the cost

We use what we need when we need it

others can use the excess!


Questions?Better at the end ;-)


Thank you!

Documents

International Summit for Community Wireless Networks