Digital Cities Convention Broadband Wireless for Better City Management Philadelphia December 5-6,2006 www.w2idigitalcitiesconvention.com www.w2i.org 12/12/06 1
Looking Back: May 2005 Philadelphia was going to fund its own network Little or no private capital for such initiatives Incumbent telcos and cable operators aggressively challenging early local-government efforts with restrictive state legislation Stakeholder ecosystem in support of metro-scale initiatives was still in its infancy 12/12/06 The Wireless Internet Institute 2
Milestones September 04: Philadelphia announces its wireless initiative and forms Wireless Philadelphia January 05: Corpus Christi commits $20 million in taxpayer funds to deploy a Wi-Fi mesh network to improve local-government workforce efficiency, meter reading July 05: Wireless Philadelphia entertains more 20 responses to its RFP September 05: Wireless Philadelphia awards deployment contract to EarthLink October 05: San Francisco floats its RFI, MetroFi launches Cupertino, Tempe deploys Q1 06: Houston launches RFP, Taipei launches subscriber service, Embarq tests Henderson (NV), Corpus adds more government applications, Alvarion completes deployment of 160 towns and villages in Basque country Q2 06: Toronto goes to Siemens/BelAir, Silicon Valley Wireless awarded to IBM/Cisco/Seakay/Azulstar, Portland to Metrofi/SkyPilot, EarthLink inaugurates Anaheim Q3 06: JiWire certifies Taipei Network, Minneapolis awards landmark deal to US Internet/Siemens/BelAir, committing $1.25 million/year for 10 years as an anchor tenant Q4 06: AT&T wins Springfield (IL) with SkyPilot and Riverside (CA) with SkyPilot & Metrofi, Winston-Salem (NC) goes to IBM/Cisco/Azulstar, Corpus Christi opens up its government network for public access 12/12/06 The Wireless Internet Institute 3
2006 Market Dynamics Broadband-Wireless Communities Market Mainstreams Completion of early broad deployments (Taipei, Corpus Christi, Tempe, Anaheim, Toronto, Basque Country.) Hundreds of cities & counties in various stages of planning and deployment: Atlanta Boston Chicago Cleveland Houston Miami Dade Minneapolis Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland Rhode Island San Francisco Silicon Valley Washington Amsterdam Bangalore Johannesburg London Pune Sao Paulo Stockholm Emerging business models in support of multi-purpose networks 12/12/06 The Wireless Internet Institute 4
2006 Market Dynamics A Robust Ecosystem Has Emerged Mainstream service providers (AT&T, BT, Embarq, Sprint.) join start-up fray and early movers (Azulstar, Earthlink, MetroFi, MobilePro, Pipex, Q- ware, The Cloud, US Internet.), with diverse business models including: Neutral wholesale service Advertising funded free service Local government anchor tenancy Second-generation multiradio technology vendors register first large wins widening the options available for deployment Application vendors begin showing significant interest in leveraging broadband wireless infrastructure (Accela, Adobe, ESRI, SAP, Simdesk.) A strong body of systems integrators and consultants emerges to deliver end-to-end solutions (HP, IBM, Northrop Grumman, WFI, Siemens, Cap Gemini.) 12/12/06 The Wireless Internet Institute 5
Issues Assess local community market inefficiencies relative to broadband access Inventory local government assets that can be applied towards correcting those inefficiencies Develop local community consensus around application priorities Determine optimum business plan/model in support of those priorities Learn from early-adopter peers in the space 12/12/06 The Wireless Internet Institute 6
Emerging Realities Growing gap between expectations of elected officials and capacity of industry and project managers to deliver on these Measurable benefits in government operational efficiencies abound Cheap Public Access as primary driver for deployment of wireless infrastructure is highly speculative Broadband wireless infrastructure deployment is first and foremost driven by the need for Better City Management Cheap Public Access to be viewed as a secondary objective, a windfall benefit, or ultimate goal 12/12/06 The Wireless Internet Institute 7
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Thank You Daniel Aghion daghion@w2i.org Wireless Internet Institute 225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Tel: (617) 439-5400 Fax: (404) 252-0628 12/12/06 9