21 April 2016
Manchester Central Convention Complex
Europe/London timezone

The evolution of the B4RN network

21 Apr 2016, 15:00
30m
Manchester Central Convention Complex

Manchester Central Convention Complex

Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX
Main Session

Speaker

Mr Tom Rigg (Broadband for the Rural North Ltd)

Description

* Summary of B4RN model/project (for those that don’t know) * Rollout update (progress since Barry’s presentation) * Storyboard process for connecting a parish (how it works – the community aspect) * Design/network layer * Customer usage patterns * Growth challenges * Questions

Summary

  • Summary of B4RN model/project (for those that don’t know)

  • Rollout update (progress since Barry’s presentation)

  • Storyboard process for connecting a parish (how it works – the community aspect)

  • Design/network layer

  • Backhaul fibre/bandwidth
  • Scalability
  • Current power design
  • Decision not to carrier NAT
  • Dual stack v4/v6

  • Customer usage patterns

  • Bandwidth issues (or not?)
  • Top destinations
  • Split of v4/v6 traffic
  • Digital Divide
  • Projected traffic usage
  • Traffic usage (historic/projected)

  • Growth challenges

  • Core node locations/connectivity
  • Resilient backhaul for core
  • Provider edge resilience
  • Future expansion

  • Questions

Primary author

Mr Tom Rigg (Broadband for the Rural North Ltd)

Presentation materials