“ laying the foundations for growth”
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“ Laying the foundations for Growth”. NextGen Roadshow - Nottingham. “C onnecting Nottingham”. Connecting Nottingha m – Our vision for the city. Providing 21 st century communications in Nottingham to connect people to businesses and public services - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
July 6th1
“Laying the foundations for Growth”
“Connecting Nottingham”
NextGen Roadshow - Nottingham
July 6th2
Connecting Nottingham – Our vision for the city
• Providing 21st century communications in Nottingham– to connect people to businesses and public services– to connect businesses and public services to customers– drive economic growth to the city of Nottingham
• attract High-tech companies to the city
• What infrastructure is needed– A Wireless or fibre network across Nottingham
• City & suburb wide coverage– including hard to reach areas
– Centrally located data centre with national & global connectivity• Carrier Neutral to drive competition• Independent network gateway to drive an ‘Open Network’
July 6th3
Connecting Nottingham – Welcome to The Portal
July 6th4
The Portal – Located in the centre of Nottingham
• Davidsons Group owned site
• Brand new state of the art 90,000 ft Tier 3+ carrier neutral colocation Data Centre
• Environmentally friendly design features & engineered as next generation fit for purpose efficient modular & scalable data centre
• Space for over 700 - 1200 Mid to High Density racks (up to 20kW per rack)
• Carrier Class and Carrier Neutral with Global Crossing, Cable and Wireless & Hibernia operating on site along with extensive dark fibre from NTL, BT, Kingston & Colt
• Direct access to international transatlantic fibres & European access routes, global internet exchange points & peering locations
• ‘Midlands’ Internet Exchange point location
July 6th5
The Portal - The HUB of communications for Nottingham
Dedicated protected links to both London & Manchester national data centres
Onsite Fibre infrastructure from national & global carriers
Access to national fibre network to all UK major cities
Diverse power from regional main power station Access to 2 airports for European/international
routes National Rail infrastructure for easy access M1 Corridor and central location Local universities for skills and
collaboration
July 6th6
The Portal Data Centre – Main points
Major Power Availability
Central UK Location
High Physical Security
CarrierNeutral
Trusted Brand Infrastructure
July 6th7
Connecting Nottingham – Delivering our vision
• First building block is in place - The Portal
• Inherited a major asset from the closure of BR computing
• Strategic infrastructure of fibres that all start from and terminate from the site
• The major national & global network carriers all have a presence on the site
• The Portal is extremely secure with abundant power onsite
• Centrally located in Nottingham
July 6th8
Connecting Nottingham – Wireless Network
• Legacy investment – Core base station at Victoria Centre
• Network now consists of 7 Base stations across the city
• Coverage extends across 60% of the city and has reach of 15km
• 1 GigE capacity over core base stations offering synchronous contended and uncontended speeds from 2Mbit/s up to 50Mbit/s
• Excellent service levels (99.99%)
• Clients include local authorities - Rushcliffe Borough Council, private sector operators – Confetti, Victim Support, Ingeus, etc
July 6th9
Connecting Nottingham – View from one of our base stations
July 6th10
Connecting Nottingham – Our current wireless coverage
July 6th11
Connecting Nottingham – Confetti Case Study
• Confetti located in central Nottingham City campus
• Required satellite office located in Colwick Industrial Estate to be connected to City campus
• Colwick had slow broadband connectivity
• Provided 2 Mbit/s synchronous connection providing quality of service for both data and voice transmission
• Connected both sites over wireless on a private network
• A hard to reach area solved by the EMNET wireless network
July 6th12
Connecting Nottingham – Planning for the future
• Working with our partners to provide even faster wireless across the City using 4G/LTE technology
• 4G/LTE will drive a new set of advanced services across the city– New wireless services for blue light & mobile workers– New wireless services for the public transport network– New wireless digital advertising services – location specific advertising – New wireless CCTV services to increase public safety – New wireless cloud based services– New wireless games services
• The Portal is the connecting hub that will enable these new services – attracting new businesses to the city of Nottingham which will create and offer these new
services to the public and business market
July 6th13
Connecting Nottingham – Thank you for listening
Questions & Answers