How the Oxford University Museums have been dealing with the challenges and opportunities with public wi-fi and how the Oxford City's Super Connected Oxford scheme will increase the increase wireless coverage for public while catering to existing academic and staff services.

1. Public Wi-Fi, University Museums
and
Super-Connected Oxford
Workshop A7
10 July 2014
Anjanesh Babu
Oxford University Museums
Gerrard Barker
Oxford City Council

3. We are not just……
Collections
Education
Higher
Education
Events
Research

4. Academic and Commercial

5. Museums < 2010
2

6. Don’t be a ……
Audio guides
Yeah.All these.
We love events !
Gateway
We are the city

7. No Wi-fi ?
Wi-Fi = THE Internet*
*(not necessarily)

8. Grand plan
Common Firewall
Staff Wireless
Common Wi-Fi
Intentions

9. Wifi in museums > 2010
2
Commercial ISP
Oxford University IT Services Network s
10Mbs1024Mbs

10. Just a few things
Our own pipe
Logging
Traffic
Legal
Listed Buildings
Design
£

12. Super Connected Oxford
Gerrard Barker
IT Programme and Project Manager
Oxford - A City of opportunity – A brand
• 9.5 million visitors per year
• Generating £770 million of income for local Oxford businesses every year
• 4,000 businesses providing 106,000 jobs
• 36,000 students

13. Super Connected Oxford
2012 Government initiative to improve UK
Broadband by 2015
Rural Broadband - County Council led
Urban Broadband Fund -Oxford is one of the 12 Cities
in Phase 2 announced in 2012, started Summer 2013.

14. The Oxford Vision
Park & Ride
In buildings Vouchers for
Small and
Medium Size
Businesses
On the Bus
In the Street

15. Wireless Concession
In the Street
Every two minutes, we take as many photos as
all of humanity took during the 1800s

16. Wi-Fi on Public Transport

17. • Icomera Moovbox M340
• Supports 4 easily upgradeable modems
• 8 SIM cards.
Wi-Fi on Public Transport

18. Connection Vouchers
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
< 250 employees
270 + providers
From 20Mb/s to 100Gb/s – depending on location
and service chosen
Low latency – suitable for EVERYTHING – file
sharing, web hosting, remote desktop, IP Telephony
Cost:
Up to £3k Install (depending on site) – Covered by
Connection Vouchers

19. • Free Wi-Fi in all free to enter Public Buildings
26 Community Centres, 8 Libraries, Oxford
University Museums, Town Hall etc.
• Procurement live & Contracts due to exchange
Wireless Hotspots

20. • Contract exchange July 2014
• OUM start Procurement August 2014
• Installation commences October 2014
• Wi-Fi Commission early 2015
• Fund drawdown March 2015
Wireless Hotspots in Oxford
University Museums

22. The Brief
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-04-24/

23. We are here
Broadway
(L2 over ADSL)
Stores
Harkness
Scale of the deployment : L2 Network

24. Network transit
Wireless
Edge
Wireless
Edge
Wireless
Edge
Wireless
Edge
Aerohive Control Plane
Distribution
and Edge
Distribution
and Edge
Distribution
and Edge
Distribution
and Edge
Public Service
Provider
Network Core Commercial ISP gateway
museum-staff
public

25. Recap
Our own pipe
Logging
Traffic
Legal
Listed Buildings
Design
£

26. Ahead
Design
Procurement
Implementation
Metrics
Metrics

27. Presence of technology..

28. Any questions ?

29. Thank you