Presentation to the inaugural Utah Broadband Project Advisory Committee, June 9, 2011. The presentation focuses on the composition of the mapping/GIS data assembled from Utah's broadband providers by the Project and some of the analytical possibilities that can be used to support the planning and further implementation of broadband in Utah.
2. Utah Broadband Project:
What is Being Mapped?
• NTIA Broadband Definition:
– Low Speed Bar: 768K down, 200K Up (maximum advertised speed)
– Many Technologies
– What are Utah’s goals?
• Mapping Speed & Technology:
– Wireless Service Areas
• Mobile and Fixed Wireless Service Area polygons
– Wire-based Service Areas
• Census Block (where blocks <= 2 sq miles)
• Road Segment
• Address Service Points
– Infrastructure
• Middle & Last Mile Locations
– Service Overview (by county)
– Community Anchor Institutions
• Schools, Emergency Response, Health, Government, Public Services
8. How is Broadband Service
Characterized?
Speed
Technology
+ Spectrum (for wireless)
9. Speed Tiers
Download time for 160 MB file
(30 minute video, large software download, etc)
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
.768m
bps
1.5
m
bps
3
m
bps
6
m
bps
10
m
bps
25
m
bps
50
m
bps
100
m
bps
1
gbps
megabitspersecond
1000
28 min 14 min
7 min
3.5 min
2.1 min
51 sec
26 sec
13 sec
2.5 sec
28. Businesses Demand High-Capacity Broadband…
and Utah Can Deliver
• SLC is the western regional
optical fiber nexus
– Twitter, Oracle, Overstock,
NSA…
– Strategic location for national
connectivity
– Growing concentration of
corporate & public data centers
locally
– Low industrial power rates
5 distinct major
destinations
At least 8 distinct
fiber paths
-For example, my current service falls in the 10 mbps or less category.
-We will have the percentage of the population served broken for each speed in March 2011 (awaiting latest census data)