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Broadband for the Whole Community-‐-‐ the escala7ng demand for connec7vity in disaster response
Jack Deasy Director, Government Solu7ons
Emergency Communica/ons Workshop Pacific Telecommunica/ons Conference 2015 January 18, 2015
Promo7ng a Whole Community approach
• Transi/on away from top-‐down emergency management
• FEMA Whole Community principles • Understand and meet the actual needs of the whole community. • Engage and empower all parts of the community. • Strengthen what works well in communi/es on a daily basis.
• Community engagement to : - iden/fy ways to Increase community resilience in the first 72 hours aPer a disaster - Promote faster return to normal condi/ons
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Hurricane Sandy, October 29 2012 NYC metro region
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• 147 people died
• millions without power
• lowest barometric pressure of a landfall north of NC
• highest storm surge
• second costliest hurricane ($50-‐60 billion) to hit US mainland (aPer Katrina)
• 70% of people order to evacuate in NYC did NOT do so
• Response hit by ‘fog of war’ - Social media misinforma/on - Mistaken risk evalua/on - Late evacua/on no/ces
- Ad hoc local response, comms restora/on key
Climate change making storms more violent, less predictable
West Africa Ebola crisis, March 2014 -‐ present
• Most widespread epidemic of Ebola virus disease • Affected Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Senegal
• Over 21, 000 cases • Over 8,400 deaths • Challenging response environment
• Recent history of violence/social disrup/on • Local customs and prac/ces • Status of local health care networks • Nature of disease/treatment • Slow interna/onal response • Wide geography of /isolated communi/es
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Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
ICT for Ebola response: respec7ng limita7ons…
• Response focus on treatment and preven/ng transmission • Contact tracing • Follow up • Social mobiliza/on • Public awareness
• ShiP in ICT focus from command and control to whole community approach
• Respec/ng the exis/ng technology ecosystem - Liberia: 4% of popula/on have access to Internet/60% of popula/on (2/3rds of families) have mobile phones § Rural electrical net largely disrupted - Sierra Leone: >2 % have access to internet; 44% have mobile phones
• IFRC: sent 2 million text messages/month about Ebola • Nigerian officials used phone records to trace contact history • UNICEF: SMS-‐based polling • CDC: focus on radio and face-‐to-‐face data management
• Need to ensure technology does NOT get in the way of epidemiology • Amazon, Ericcson, Google have given thousands of mobile phones that some aid agencies claim exceed data backhaul and electric grid capacity
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…while leveraging new solu7ons
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• UNMEER (UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response)’s innova/ve response • Innova/ve support for humanitarian organiza/ons through its peacekeeping communica/ons network
• Growing requirements for ability to access higher bandwidth, lower latency capacity to u/lize HD video and cloud applica/ons - Server-‐lite field installa/ons to minimize exposure/risks to teams in the field
• Using handheld devices and WI FI-‐enabled networks to reach communi/es • 500 tablets allowing patents to Skype with rela/ves outside Treatment Center “red zones” • 10,000 smart phones to coordinate and feed data into central repositories • WI FI networks connected to satellite links with solar powered generators.
• Major humanitarian response drive technology adop/on • 2006 Asian tsunami accelerated small team satcom • 2010 Hai/ earthquake introduced social media • 2012 Superstorm Sandy: highlighted abilty of ad hoc networks (VSAT + WI FI) to empower communi/es
• West Africa Ebola crisis likely to accelerate adop/on of handheld IP-‐enabled end users empower communi/es • Smart communi/es will drive up bandwidth demands for future humanitarian responses
Crea7ng ‘Smart communi7es’
• Whole Community approach reflects broader move to networked society
• In past, restora/on of communica/ons networks was a goal of emergency response – today it is a precondi/on
• Providing disaster affected communi/es with the communica/ons infrastructure to u/lize handheld WI-‐Fi enabled devices turns ‘vic/ms’ into ‘responders’
• Accelera/ng demand for connec/vity makes yesterday’s innova/ve solu/on today’s second-‐best op/ons
• Tradi/onal satellite solu/ons deliver for command and control for response teams • Satellite phones and MSS solu/on provide hundreds of kbps for ‘first in’ teams
• VSATs deliver several tens of Mbps for early relief efforts
• Connec/vity for Whole Community restora/on will require hundreds of Mbps of fiber-‐quality broadband
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O3b Networks: bringing broadband to smart communi7es worldwide
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High Throughput Up to 1.6 Gbps per beam Low Latency Roundtrip latency of less then 150msec enabling:
• Crystal clear voice and HD video • Ultra-‐fast response /me • Use of cloud based applica/ons
Low Cost Up to 30% more affordable Flexibility Steerable beams provide global coverage Scalable From 100 Mbps to 1.6 Gbps
MEO: 8,062km al7tude
Innova7ve satellite constella7on delivering superior, faster and more affordable connec7vity
‘Fiber in the Sky’ across the Pacific
• O3b now has over 20Gbps of contracted capacity globally • 4.7Gbps is in the Pacific Region
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Pacific Regional Customers
Telecom Cook Islands
Hitron
Digicel Pacific
Timor Telecom
FSM Telecommunica/ons Corpora/on
Norfolk Telecom
Palau Equipment Co Inc.
Palau Na/onal Communica/ons Corpora/on American Samoa Telecommunica/ons Authority Solomon Telekom Company Ltd
SpeedCast
Malaysia
East Timor
Palau Micronesia
Nauru
Solomon Islands
Norfolk
American Samoa
Samoa
Cook Islands
Port Moresby 1 & 2
Lae & Mt. Hagen
Kiriba7
Smart communi7es: connected = empowered
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• Superstorm Sandy and the West Africa Ebola crisis demonstrate the power of user-‐friendly technology to reconnect and empower communi/es
• Technologies for power genera/on and fiber-‐like connec/vity will be cri/cal to enabling this technology
• In the future, communi/es facing disaster response situa/ons will be looking for their communica/ons providers to support the “smart communi/es” approach
• Requires rapid restora/on of significant fiber-‐like broadband connec/vity to the Cloud is now a requirement for whole community response.
• Access technologies such as Wi FI, WI MAX, 3G and 4G/LTE mobile wireless solu/ons will allow everyday technologies to accelerate a return to normal.
• O3b’s fiber-‐in-‐the-‐sky broadband solu/ons will play a cri/cal role in areas where backhaul connec/vity is significantly disrupted.