The document describes a pilot project to bring fibre internet access to the rural community of Atherley Uptergrove Village in Ontario, Canada. It will install an open access fibre network delivering speeds over 50 Mbps to homes and businesses. The project has 3 phases and will establish a fibre connection from the community to an existing network by Summer 2007, extending coverage throughout the year. It provides estimates for the network infrastructure and connections needed.

1. FIBRENET.CA
Enlightened Solutions for Rural Communities
Ramara – Pilot Project 1
Atherley Uptergrove Village Fibre
www.auvf.net

2. Atherley Uptergrove Village Fibre
NETwork
• Fibre To The Premise (FTTP) access network for
residents and businesses in Atherley – Uptergrove
Village.
• One of the underserved rural communities located in
Ramara Township, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
• Green/Brownfield deployment designed with next
generation fibre solutions
• Open network infrastructure with Service agnostic
principle providing significant bandwidth to users >50
Mbps
• Creation of a Portal that will act as the principle
entertainment access network for any IP based services

3. Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 1

4. AUVF.NET Build Plan
• Business case and financial analysis Q1/2 2007
– Business fundamentals assessment,
– Funding sources determination
– Service Provider negotiations
– Customer canvassing, sign up and Portal establishment
• Phase 1 Summer 2007
– Hub establishment at 4423 Orkney Beach road
– 2.1 Km Fibre build between hub point and the SCBN fibre connection on
Highway 12.
– Create fibre drops along Orkney Heights and Orkney Beach road to initial
adopters
• Phase 2 Fall 2007
– Extension of initial fibre coverage to Uptergrove, Fountain Beach, Plum Point and
Anderson Ave. (Business and Marine coverage?)
• Phase 3 Winter 2007/8
– New fibre in Atherley along Creighton St .down to Florence Ave. with appropriate
drops and spurs along the route.

5. Open Access
AUVF.NET

6. Aerial Neighborhood Outside Plant NID (Network Interface Device)
NAP (Network Access Point)
LCP (Local Convergence Point)
Pole
Drop
Dwelling
Aggregation Point
Feeders
LCP
Distribution Feeder
Aggregation
Distributions Point
NID
Drop Network
Access
Point LCP
Distribution Feeder
Aggregation
Point

7. AUVF.NET
Internet Portal to Services 1 GE connection
from Hydro One to SCBN
Rogers Google
Bell Yahoo
VoIP IPTV
1000 M
21 homes
Distribution point
15 homes
312 Individual household strands?
Aggregation point
4 homes 25 homes 7 homes
11homes
20 homes 33 homes 14 homes
School
200 M 900 M 900 M 200 M
2100 M

8. Estimates
– 3.3 Km route
– 80-100 Poles for aerial fibre
– 150 dwellings passed
– 312 strand fibre?
– Aggregation point with GE optics back to
interconnection point on Highway 12
– Internet revenue?