The document discusses Vancouver and collaboration on digital infrastructure projects. It summarizes the City of Coquitlam's municipal fiber optic network, QNet, which leases dark fiber to telecom companies. QNet has generated cost savings and improved connectivity for the city. The document outlines how Coquitlam is working with other municipalities in the Vancouver area to foster broadband access and economic development through shared infrastructure projects.

1. Vancouver & Collaboration
Rick Adams
ICT Manager
City of Coquitlam

2. Coquitlam, British Columbia
Discover the Advantage!
Rick Adams (radams@coquitlam.ca)
For i-Canada - November, 2011

3. Location, location, location

4. Population Growth

5. Our Economy

6. Labour Force
• Total labour force 61,805
• Education level
• University/College 57%
• Trades 10%
• High School 25%
• BC Unemployment rate 7.5%
(August 2011)
• Local job availability est. <50%

7. Transportation - Gateway

8. Transportation - Evergreen Line
• Approved in 2011
• Est. Project Cost: $1.4B
• 11 km (6 stations) connects Coquitlam,
Port Moody, Burnaby, New Westminster,
Richmond & Vancouver
• Ridership: 70,000 / day by 2021

9. City Centre Development

10. City Centre Development

11. City Centre Development

12. Development - 7200 Greenfield
Lots

13. Y2K Smart Communities
Grant

14. Coquitlam Optical Network
Corporation - QNet
• Local government corporation incorporated
Nov. 12, 2008 as per a 30 year business plan
approved by Council in March, 2008
• Wholly owned by the City of Coquitlam with
independent board of six directors
• Startup financing: $5 million loan from City,
profitable by 2014, long term source of non-
tax revenue
• Primary service – lease dark fibre optic cables
to primarily to competitive telecom companies

15. Key Milestones
• 1999 – 2003: Approx. 45kms of underground ducts
installed by Engineering for traffic signal network
• 2003 – 2004: 45kms of fibre deployed to support
Voice-over-IP telephone system ($750k cost paid
for with telecom savings of $302k/year)
• March 2008: Council approves QNet business plan,
QNet incorporated in Nov/08
• 2009: City RFP for Internet and telephone services
brings in Bell and Allstream as upstream service
providers for QNet
• 2010: Uniserve begins selling competitive Internet
and telephone residential and business services

17. QNet Business Model

18. QNet Connection Strategy

19. Transportation is Our Core Business

20. City of Coquitlam / QNet Benefits
• Reduce the impacts of telecom installation on
City rights-of-way
– Except for TELUS & Shaw, telecom companies
wishing to install fibre optics in Coquitlam now
lease from QNet (e.g. Rogers Wireless, Bell)
– No concerns about impacts on rights-of-way if
new competitors enter the Canadian telecom
market
– Work with wireless carriers to improve wireless
services in a publicly responsible manner

21. LTE Cellular Picocell Prototype

22. City of Coquitlam / QNet Benefits
• Improve telecom services and costs for the
City and community partners:
– Hard dollar operating savings of $357,000 per
year
– Two state-of-the-art data centre / co-location
facilities with green cooling technology
– Ability to centrally deploy and manage the
latest ICT applications in all of our facilities and
for mobile workers
– Internet connection speed increased by over
1000%

23. City of Coquitlam / QNet Benefits
• Enable the delivery of competitive telecom
services in order to foster job creation,
home based businesses and virtual
workplace (i.e. home office)

24. Our Business is Your Future!

25. Qconnect Residential Pricing

26. Qconnect Residential Pricing

27. QNet Connection Strategy

28. Stranded Telecom Utilities
• Kamloops
• Penticton
• Prince George
• Grand Forks
• Columbia Basin Trust
• Yellowknife

29. N.A. Metro Area Exchanges

30. Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX)

31. BC.Net Internet Exchange (VANTX)

32. VANTX Internet Service Providers
• Bell Canada
• Shaw Business Solutions
• Peer 1 (USA)
• Tata Communications (India)
• TELUS
• Columbia Networks
• RackForce Networks
• Primus Telecom
• AEBC Internet Corp.
• Skyway West

33. QNet Internet Exchange

34. Connecting to the Source - Benefits
• Predictable competitive pricing for QNet
customers
• Expand the market – additional ISPs
• Fully utilize capabilities of our Poirier co-
location facility (rack rentals, backup and
DR, cloud computing, etc.)
• CivicInfo BC provincial video conferencing
• Competitive exchange for other
municipalities

35. Vancouver and Collaboration
• Making it happen:
– City of New Westminster (power utility)
– District of Maple Ridge (job creation)
– Port Coquitlam (Coquitlam school district &
RCMP)
– City of North Vancouver (gas utility)
– Langley / Abbotsford (job creation)
– BC.Net & BC Broadband Association
(advocacy)

36. Vancouver and Collaboration
• Watching it happen:
– City of Vancouver (competitive downtown core)
– City of Burnaby (competitive high tech district & SAP)
– City of Richmond (city facilities only)
– City of Surrey (other priorities)
– MetroVan (GVRD) (too expensive)
– TransLink (for internal systems only)
– BC Hydro (for internal systems only)
– Province of BC ($1 billion 10 yr TELUS agreement –
rural connectivity a priority)

37. Diverse, Urban & Connected