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Transforming Rural Broadband

“advances making satellite even more useful for reaching

sparsely populated areas”• Mike Locke

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Useful from the Beginning

• Early ARPANET

• 3 out of 41 nodes

• Reaching the last 7%

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Consistently Useful at the Edge• Terrestrial

costs more the further away from the core

• The last % needs the satellite edge

• Technical advances apply to both

• Test at £300

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BDUK

• First rollout £530m• Superfast Extension

Programme• Innovation Fund Pilots• “Final 5%”• The edge is coming in

to focus• Hockey-stick

economics

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DVB European / Global Standard

• Originally for Digital TV• Transport Stream carries

data packets• DVB-T, -C and –S• DVB-S• DVB-S2 (2005) increases bit rate up to 30%• DVB-S2X (2014) up to 51% over DVB-S2• Nearly doubling throughput over DVB-S

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EU Approval / OFCOM

• Licence Regime– Cheaper & easier

• OFCOM • Type Approved

terminals (Ku)– Network licence

• Standard specification in Ka– Licence Exempt

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Backbone

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Spectrum• Frequency allocations

ITU/WRC/OFCOM• 4GHz in Ku for FSS/BSS

– Analogue TV– Digital TV– Digital services (inc IP)

• Ka is not “faster” than Ku• Ka adds more MHz which

means more Mbps• Ka and Ku on same satellite

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Satellite Enhanced TCP (ETCP)

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Better PlatformsHub on 60MHz txp could throughput 100 – 120MbpsSDN professional satmodem supports 45Mbps

CPE 1 man / 0.5 day / £40075cm dish / 2W25Mbps end 2014, upgradable to 40Mbs

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Same SLAs: SDN or DTH

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SDN vs Direct – How to choose?Cluster

• Central Hub serves many End Users within 2–3km

• Newel: 317 hh / 800 people• £££ Hub + £ CPE• Organic growth hub-by-hub

Scatter

• Individual Dish per End User• No need to cluster/organise• 100% homes passed• ££ CPE

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SDN via Wi-Fi in the Field

• EU State Aid Germany 2014

• Superfast 25Mbps• 1 base station• ~ 50 users• 2 – 3 km range

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Market Test Pilot• Piloting Satellite role in

100% Superfast coverage• 25 Mbps service offer

reaching the final % - now• BDUK Basic White• More than just USC

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