Utah Broadband Project:What is being mapped?
Bert Granberg
Utah AGRC
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
Broadband ProviderBiannual Data Submission
Examples…
A Fixed Wireless Service Area Example, Moab Area
Example: Wireline Service By Census Block, SLC
Wireline Service By Road Segment Examples, Herriman
area mapped by Census Blocks(where y2k CB area <= 2.0 sq miles)
Examples: Community Anchor Institution Location and Speed Data
How is Broadband Service Characterized?
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Mapped Broadband Technologies
Where does the data go?
National Broadband Map(FCC/NTIA)
Utah Broadband ProjectInteractive Map
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Broadband Mapping: Provider Participation in Utah’s April 2011 NTIA Data Submission
• Covad• Digis• Direct
Communications• Emery• Frontier• Gtelco (Gunnison)• Hughes• InfoWest• Integra• Leap/Cricket• Level3• Manti• Myvocom• Nebonet• Qwest• River Canyon
Wireless
• SatView• Skywire• SouthCentral• Spanish Fork• Sprint/Nextel• Strata• T-Mobile• ThreeSixty• Union• Utah Broadband• Utopia• Veracity• Verizon• Wild Blue• XOCommunications• XpressWeb
• Albion Telephone
• AllWest
• Altazip
• American Fiber
• AT&T
• Baja
• Beehive
• Bresnan
• Cache Broadband
• Catapulsion
• CentraCom
• Clearwire
• Comcast
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Other Mapping Resources & Efforts
Maximum Advertised Speed Map
Combined Technology Map
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 majordestinations
At least 8 distinctfiber paths
Consumer SpeedTest Mapping
Characterizing Utah’s Populated Areas, Refining Populated 2010 Census Blocks
Before After
Address Points for Household Level Service Analysis
