Session 4a, 6 May 2009 IST-Africa 2009 Copyright 2009 DigitalWorld Forum Digital World Forum WP3 –...

Session 4a, 6 May 2009 IST-Africa 2009 Copyright 2009 DigitalWorld Forum

Digital World ForumWP3 – low-cost broadband access and infrastructure

Bruno Conquet & Max Francisco

Orange Labs

France


Orange Labs: leading partner for Digital World Forum / WP3

• WP1: Mobile Web applications

• WP2: Low-Cost Laptops• WP3: Low-cost Broadband

access & infrastructures to devise a generic approach to

the "last mile" issue in developing countries, by assessing each key technological solution in the light of a typology of local contextual factors


• One of the main telecommunications operators in the world

• Providing services to more than 170 million customers over five continents

• Including 120 million under the Orange brand

FT-Orange: one of the world’s leading telecom operators 1/2


N°3 in Europe for mobile services with almost110 million customers

13 million mobile broadband customers with access to the Orange world portal

on the move

European leader in broadband Internet (ADSL) with almost12 million customers

6.1 million Liveboxes,the key to high-speed services

European leader in ADSL television with more than 1.2 million customers

at home

with Orange Business Services, the group is one of the world leaders supplying telecommunications to more than 3,750 MNCs

at work

FT-Orange: one of the world’s leading telecom operators 2/2


FT-Orange's positions in emerging markets

Orange Mali2 912 000 mobile

6 300 Wimax

Sonatel (Sénégal)3 861 000 mobile

236 000 fixe52 000 ADSL

CIT-Orange CI3 119 000 mobile

270 000 fixe44 000 ADSL

Orange Cameroon2 227 000 mobile

2 000 WimaxGetesa (Eq Guinea)

275 000 mobile11 000 fixe2 200 ADSL

Orange Madagascar2 115 000 mobile

Mauritius Telecom603 000 mobile

331 000 fixe53 000 ADSL

Orange Botswana647 000 mobile

1080 Wimax

Mobinil (Egypt)20 780 000 mobile

JT group (Jordan)1 552 000 mobile

507 000 fixe139 000 ADSL

18 operations 42,6 M mobile users 2,02 M fixed users

308 000 Broadband usersin emerging markets

Orange Dominicana2 550 000 mobile

Orange Guinée Bissau84 000 mobile

520 Wimax

Lightspeed (Bahrein)

FT/Orange Réunion

FT/Orange Mayotte

FT/Orange Caraibes

Orange Guinée

727 000 mobile

Orange Centrafrique

140 000 mobile300 Wimax

Telkom Kenya777 000 mobile

656 000 fixe8 500 ADSL

Orange Niger208 000 mobile

330 Wimax

Orange Uganda

57 000 mobile

The Group's footprint is growing steadily, with the ambition of giving our customers access to continuously enriched services that leverage convergence


Digital World Forum / WP3 Objectives

• The goal of this work package is to devise a generic approach to the "last mile" issue in developing countries, by thoroughly assessing each key technological solution in the light of contextual factors.

• The expected outcome is a set of recommendations (technological roadmap) for R&D initiatives to be undertaken at EU level to improve existing technologies or promote new ones and further reduce costs.

• The project focuses on wireless, non satellite-based solutions, in order to stay in line with a stringent low-cost approach.

• Deliverables:– D3.1 State-of-the-art analysis of the broadband access and infrastructure domain

(delivered in 2008; downloadable at http://www.digitalworldforum.eu/upload-document/doc_download/52-dwfd31october08fullpdf)

– D3.2 Workshop on wireless access and infrastructure in Kampala, co-organized with Makerere University (May 4-5, 2009)

– D3.3 Access and infrastructure roadmap (Aug., 2009)


Digital World Forum / WP3 – elements of context 1/2typology of access technologies

• Wireline:– xDSL, usually in urban areas;

technology using high frequencies of the copper telephone line to transport Internet data, VoIP or IPTV, typically 512kbps up to 20Mbps

– Dialup on PSTN, whenever the technological constraints prevent from using xDSL, typically 40kbps up to 80kbps with accelerator

• Access to radio resource depends on the opportunity,– frequency – spectrum available, – density – Targeted application

Urban center(wired)

BFWA

WLAN

Individual rural users

Satellite

Wired coveragelimit

Collective wirelesscoverage zone

Fixed and

Nomadic users

DTT

Urban center(wired)

BFWA

WLAN

Individual rural users

Satellite

Wired coveragelimit

Collective wirelesscoverage zone

Fixed and

Nomadic users

DTT


• Current broadband customers in Africa– Rich individual customers (upper class, 5% of population): target partly

reached by xDSL, CDMA2000 and WiMax deployment

– Business customers partly reached by these deployments

– Existing collective access by cyber centers in urban areas to be expanded

• Action plan to develop the broadband penetration in emerging countries based on sharing access offers adapted to these markets– To complement existing xDSL coverage

– To launch offers in areas not covered by copper lines

– To launch offers in new markets

• Challenge for ISPs: to increase broadband customers at lower cost beyond high-end customers toward mass market in emerging countries

Digital World Forum / WP3 – elements of context 2/2current broadband situation and challenges


* All indicated throughputs are cell downlink (which is divided among users in the cell) except for EDGE & UMTS

WIMAX family

CDMA family

GSM family

Bandwidth used **

** Indicated throughputs imply a fixed amount of bandwidth. Reduced bandwidth will reduce throughput downlink accordingly

1,25Mhz

Average Cell ThroughputDownlink *

Availabilty20101995 2000 2005

20Mhz

10Mhz

5Mhz

*** WiMAX 2008 with MiMo (6Mbit/s for WiMAX 16e without MiMo)

Wifi

EDGE

100 kbit/

s

per use

r

HSPA+

8 Mbit/

s

HSDPA

3,5 Mbit/

s

UMTS R

'99

200 kbit/

s

LTE

32,6 Mbit/

s

GSM /

GPRS

12 kbit/

s

UMB

31,8 Mbit/

s

CDMA2000

1xRTT

100 kbit/

s

EV-DO R

ev0

700 kbit/

s

EV-DO R

evA

2 Mbit/

sWIM

AX 16d

WIM

AX 16e **

*

11 Mbit/

s

WIM

AX 16m

32 Mbit/

s

Wifi

/ W

ifi m

esh

8-9 M

bit/s

802.11n

100

Mbit/s

Main findings to date 1/2Overview of Access networks


Main findings to date 2/2Strengths, Weaknesses and Issues

Failed to become a standard

Rural

CDMA 2000

QoS & billing system

Low adoption, lack of Scale savings

Spectrum availability and license cost

Coexistence with GSM 900

Spectrum availability

Capacity for both Voice and Data, spectrum effficencies

Main issue

HotspotHotspot, business Area

Urban, dense traffic area

Rural & Urban area

Rural

& sparse area

Usage

Capacity

coverage

mobility

User Experience

CPE market

Network cost

Frequency

WifiWimaxHSDPA2000HSDPA 900EDGE

Failed to become a standard

Rural

CDMA 2000

QoS & billing system

Low adoption, lack of Scale savings

Spectrum availability and license cost

Coexistence with GSM 900

Spectrum availability

Capacity for both Voice and Data, spectrum effficencies

Main issue

HotspotHotspot, business Area

Urban, dense traffic area

Rural & Urban area

Rural

& sparse area

Usage

Capacity

coverage

mobility

User Experience

CPE market

Network cost

Frequency

WifiWimaxHSDPA2000HSDPA 900EDGE

(450 Mhz)


Next steps 1/2

• The WP3 workshop was held early this week (May 4-5) in Kampala the key findings generated during the workshop will make up the

framework of the technological roadmap, e.g.:Infrastructure sharing (backbone / core net. / backhaul / towers /

power stations) Upgradable software-based infrastructures (rather than

hardware-based)Energy-efficient equipments and routing protocols to enhance

network performance the proceedings of the workshop are scheduled for publication by

the end of May


Next steps 2/2

• The DWF project, with a focus on WP3, will be presented during the WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum) meeting held May 5-7, in ParisStrong synergies between DWF/WP3 and WWRF are anticipated,

as the development of broadband in Africa is high on WWRF's research agenda

• The technological roadmap will be made available by August 31, and presented during DWF’s final event, planned September 29.

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