Gig.U: The Tale of Two Cities - Seattle and Cleveland

The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project

Gig.U: The Tale of Two Cities - Seattle and Cleveland

Blair Levin, Executive Director Gig.UKelli Trosvig, Interim Vice President and Vice Provost University of WashingtonBill Schrier, CTO, City of SeattleScot Rourke, President and CEO OneCommunityLev Gonick, Vice President and CIO Case Western Reserve University

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Background for Gig.U

The University-Community Next Generation Innovation Project

• Over the spring and summer of 2011, 37 leading research universities, working in partnership with their local communities, formed Gig.U

Our Mission

Our Purpose

• Accelerate the deployment of world-leading, next generation networks in the United States

• Provide an opportunity to lead in the next generation of ultra-high speed network services and applications

Advancing world-leading networks: our strategy• Identify and utilize strategic target markets• Develop test-beds for next-gen network

deployments and app developmentOur Strategy

University-communities: a strategic market opportunity

Advantages of University-communities

Demand for Bandwidth

=Greatest

Cost of Deployment

=Least

Positive Impact of Network Access

=Greatest

Gig.U Member InstitutionsFor new test-beds to foster experimentation and innovation, it makes sense to work

with communities that have strong traditions of experimentation and innovation

Georgia Tech

Advancing world-leading networks: our tactical approach

• Identify and utilize strategic target markets• Develop test-beds for next-gen network

deployments and app developmentOur Strategy

• Use collective action to attract private capital– Aggregate demand– Lower transaction costs

• Use competitive forces to reveal trade-offs

Our Tactical Approach

The Gig.U approach v. the alternative

• Sole supplier makes a limited product offering• Communities organize to attract supplier• Demand significantly greater than supply

– Supplier has more power during negotiations

The Alternative Approach

One Supplier One Solution

The Gig.U approach v. the alternative

• Collective action by project members incentivizes private sector• Multiple suppliers organize to meet market demand • New market dynamic: multiple suppliers, multiple consumers with shared goals

– More equal negotiating power

Many Suppliers Many Solutions

Gig.U Approach: Reverses the Alternative Approach and Expands the Opportunity

OEMs

Other vendors

App. Developers

CDNs

Advancing world-leading networks: our process

• Identify and utilize strategic target markets• Develop test-beds for next-gen network

deployments and app developmentOur Strategy

• Use collective action to attract private capital– Aggregate demand– Lower transaction costs

• Use competitive forces to reveal trade-offs

Our Tactical Approach

• Organize members and develop RFI• Engage potential partners for creative responses

to the RFI• Evaluate responses to pave path forward

Our Process

Gig.U process timeline• July 27: Public launch• September 15: Release Request for Information• September 26: RFI Meeting– Provide potential respondents an overview and

opportunity to ask question about the RFI– Face to face interactions and meetings between Gig.U

members and potential respondents• September – October: Follow Up Discussions– Gig.U staff to facilitate additional interactions between

members and vendors to encourage creative and useful responses

• November: RFI responses due

Advancing world-leading networks: our opportunities

• Identify and utilize strategic target markets• Develop test-beds for next-gen network

deployments and app developmentOur Strategy

• Use collective action to attract private capital– Aggregate demand– Lower transaction costs

• Use competitive forces to reveal trade-offs

Our Tactical Approach

• New approaches to health care, education, job training and other critical social needs

• Improved platform for research• Improved platform for small business development

Our Opportunities

• Organize members and develop RFI• Engage potential partners for creative responses

to the RFI• Evaluate responses to pave path forward

Our Process

The benefits of world-leading networks

In 21st Century economy, we can lower barriers to innovation by increasing bandwidth

Economic clusters often require access to abundant input for success

The United States has not been advancing as fast as others

“Home Internet May Get Even Faster in South Korea”By Mark McDonald, February 21, 2011

Other countries are moving toward Gigabit connectivity . . .

“Cheap, Ultrafast Broadband? Hong Kong Has It”By Randall Stross, March 5, 2011

South Korea already claims the world’s fastest Internet connections — the fastest globally by far — but that is hardly good enough for the government here.By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second. That would be a tenfold increase from the already blazing national standard and more than 200 times as fast as the average household setup in the United States.

Hong Kong residents can enjoy astoundingly fast broadband at an astoundingly low price. It became available last year, when a scrappy company called Hong Kong Broadband Network introduced a new option for its fiber-to-the-home service: a speed of 1,000 megabits a second--known as a “gig”-- for less than $26 a month. In the United States, we don’t have anything close to that. But we could. And we should.

. . . but Gigabit connectivity is not advancing in the United States

Until now . . .

所美国大学筹备各自建立 1Gbps网络社区“ GigU”

Headline from Chinese Newspaper day after Gig.U launch

Questions?

The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project

Gig.U – A Tale of Two Cities: Seattle

September 13, 2011

The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project

A Tale of Two Cities - Seattle

Population 600,000 and 3.2 million in the Puget Sound Region A high tech center – Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, Google,

Starbucks and hundreds of tech firms and startups Scientific American Sept 2011: The #1 Top Tech Friendly City City government website #1: 2011, TV channel #1: 2010 City of Seattle Fiber Partnership– over 500 miles of public agency-owned fiber in City– links every library, school and other major public facility– available for an RFI partnership (example: Pioneer Square)

A Tale of Two Cities – University of Washington Quick Facts*

$1.5 Billion in research support #1 School of Medicine in training primary-care physicians

& rural medicine; #6 in research – U.S. News & World Report

#4 School of Public Health – U.S. News & World Report

#14 Top Research – The Center for Measuring University Performance

#16 Academic Ranking of World Universities – Institute of Higher Education Shanghai Jiao Tong University

#23 Best University in the World, #4 Among U.S. Public Universities – The Times of London

* Rankings listed are the latest rankings available

A Tale of Two Cities – UW Economic Impact to the State of Washington

South Lake Union Businesses

UW MedicineGates

Foundation

Fred Hutch Cancer

Research

Seattle Biomedical RI

PATH

Microsoft

Amazon

Seattle Cancer Care

Novo Nordisk

Sage Bionetworks

OneCommunity: Driving Sustainable Prosperity in

Northeast Ohio

Scot Rourke – President and CEOSRourke@OneCommunity.org

The OneCommunity Vision & Mission

Vision: Advanced digital capabilities and effective use of technology will help transform the region and establish N.E. Ohio as a national hub for innovation and economic growth

Mission: To expand high-speed broadband access and adoption to strengthen N.E. Ohio

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Innovative Social Enterprise• Founded 2003 as 501(c)(3) not-for-profit

• Own and operate a fiber network serving 25 counties across Northeast Ohio (43% of state’s GDP)

• Serve more than 2,000 community anchor sites

• Strong recurring earned-income streams ($MM) bolstered by public and private grants

• Implementing a $70 MM expansion to 25 counties

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Connect and Enable to Transform• Serve thousands of low-income residents with free

or low cost WiFi/WiMax options including free digital literacy training and equipment

Open-access network for carriers and customers to better serve their customers (wired and wireless)

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Provide free Community Tech Exec’s to support development of regional strategies for shared services and IT adoption/ use

Education - Public Private Partnership (PPP)

Technology to drive improved educational outcomes:– Developed IT strategy with ‘loaned’ talent– Raised private funds for:

• Broadband Infrastructure ($10 million)• Free teacher training on digital tools ($2 million)• Community Tech Executive (CIO for 3 years)• Refurbished PC’s for schools program (10,000)• Applications – student assessment and learning systems• Distance learning and internships

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Network Growth from 2006 - 2011

Charter Members

The Origins of the Case Connection Zone

• Gigabit Fiber-to-the-HOME research projectof Case Western Reserve University

• Corroborate the National Broadband Plan’s value proposition:

• Ultra-high-speed network can improve the quality of life– Health and wellness– Home energy management– Public safety– STEM education at the high-school level

• Case Connection Zone Video

PLUMBING

The Case Connection Zone is a research project with the goal of bringing 1 Gigabit internet connectivity to the neighborhoods surrounding Case Western Reserve University. This project is sponsored by Case Western Reserve University.

Customer Premise Equipment

PERIMETER SECURITY & REMOTE

MONITORING

Working with Intwine Energy, we have installed whole house electric and gas monitors in several of the beta block homes. Residents get real time feedback from Intwine’s website on whether their efforts to conserve were effective.

From their smart phones, residents can control WiFi-connected thermostats. Using this they and reduce electric and gas consumption while still keeping their homes comfortable when they are at home.

ENERGY MANAGEMENT

Connecting CWRU faculty and community experts to the Early College High School and the Architecture and Design High School students extends a great high school program in ways never before possible in high schools. Classes are conducted remotely using one-to-many video connections.

The expectation is that exposing students to exciting ideas will entice them to pursue college STEM majors and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

STEM EDUCATION

Case Connection Zone is working with clinicians from Case Western Reserve University Student Health Services, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to help improve home healthcare with Case Connection Zone’s ultra high-speed 1 Gigabit internet connection. Our goal is to improve quality of healthcare while reducing the cost of healthcare—fewer trips to doctor’s office, emergency room, and hospital via one-to-one hi-def videoconferencing between the doctor and patient.

Video Conference

HOME HEALTHCARE

Collaborative Theater uses the gigabit network to provide a patient specific virtual surgery theater based on that patient's medical imagery (CT and MR) transformed by Surgical Theater into a 3D real-time dynamic and interactive modeled environment. The Collaborative Theater will form a nationally connected-health platform allowing surgeons to collaboratively work on surgery cases through real time, simultaneous interaction on an accurate model of patient's anatomy. Surgeons from two remote sites “step into” the Collaborative Theater and work together on the virtual patient case and will jointly perform a virtual surgery.

NEW BUSINESSES

Surgical Theater

““Pre-Living the Pre-Living the Future”Future”

Surgical Theater

““Pre-Living the Pre-Living the Future”Future”

UH Neurological Institute

Department of Neurological Surgery

Video Conference

Health & Wellness Public Safety

Home Energy Management STEM Education

IT’S ALL ABOUTGIG APPLICATIONS

Living the Future Today at Case Western Reserve University

Questions?

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