HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Mail Packet - 5/5/2020 - Information From Darin Atteberry Re: Memorandum From Erin Shanley Re: Update On Mobile Home WifiMEMORANDUM
Date: April 30, 2020
To: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
From: Erin Shanley, Broadband Marketing Manager
Through: Colman Keane, Broadband Executive Director
Re: Memorandum for Update on Mobile Home WIFI
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Fort Collins Connexion reached out to Poudre School District to coordinate an effort to serve select
mobile home communities with high concentration of Poudre School District families.
Our goal was to provide internet service to communities without adequate access to broadband and
enable students to access online education resources while school is not in session due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
Poudre School District initially identified seven communities that needed support based on the need for
improved service and the concentration of PSD students living there:
Hickory Village
Harmony Trailer Park
Timber Ridge
Poudre Valley
Cloverleaf
Parklane
Mountain Range Shadow
Out of those, it was determined that Hickory Village, Harmony Trailer Park, and two of the properties
--Timber Ridge and Poudre Valley--had the closest access to fiber,
allowing for a fast deployment. The remaining three properties, Cloverleaf, Parklane and Mountain
Range Shadow are well
wireless solution.
When we began working with Poudre School District, they were deploying a solution that was a
combination of cellular service and a wireless access point as a single point of delivery in the parks via a
parked van. However, PSD was experiencing very
low bandwidth.
In our initial talks, which began April 6th, it was agreed that PSD would in the
communities using the wireless end-user access points and Connexion
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April 30, 2020
TO: Mayor & City Council
FROM: Darin Atteberry
FYI /sek
to the PSD solution essentially bringing fiber internet to the perimeter of the property and handing off
high-bandwidth broadband to the PSD Access point. However, due to PSDs lack of on hand inventory of
Access Points and resources to solve for implementation, it was decided that Connexion and City crews,
would move to sup , thus
providing better bandwidth.
The Connexion team investigated several different technologies including trying to leverage the existing
MI) Wireless System, to best serve the properties. In
collaboration with City and external partners including Traffic, IT, and Light & Power, PRPA, AEG and
OnTrac, we deployed the below solutions at each park.
As of April 28, 2020, Fort Collins Connexion has deployed service to the following 4 Mobile Home Parks:
1) Hickory Village 400 Hickory St
a) Connexion ONT (G-240W-E), Internet Service via 802.11ac WiFi
b) Data Rate, 600Mbps
c) Closest to our standard fiber to the home solution - FTTH with an indoor ONT, with internal
antennas, wrapped in an outdoor case and put on a pole.
2) Harmony Village 2500 E Harmony Rd
a) Connexion ONT (G-240W-E), Engenius AP 2x2 Wave 2, Internet Service via 802.11ac WiFi
b) Data Rate, 45Mbps
3) Timber Ridge 3717 S Taft hill Rd
a) Connexion ONT (G-240W-E), Point-2-Point Engenius EnJet Outdoor Solution for
backhaul, Service via 802.11ac WiFi
b) Data Rate, 50Mbps
4) Poudre Valley 2025 N College
a) Traffic Fiber
b) Internet Service via 802.11ac WiFi
c) Data Rate, 178Mbps
The fiber bed solutions implemented at the 4 mobile home parks is temporary and not a full fiber to the
home deployment. In some cases, a combination of wireless technologies was used to get to the access
points, which limits WIFI bandwidth. Since WIFI is being delivered to single access point, students need
to be in close proximity in order to download/upload their schoolwork.
These and the additional mobile home parks in Fort Collins are highly dense, very complex, difficult
properties to serve either with fiber or wireless solutions. The estimated time to design and build a fiber
solution would be ~9 months.
A parkwide wireless solution can deployed much faster. The single biggest unknown is building the
transport network to provide transport to the APs. A wireless solution would position Aps closer to the
homes, so the students do not have to leave to access the internet. This solution could provide a
reasonable estimate of 20-50 Mbps per home. For this type of deployment there is a definite tradeoff
between bandwidth per home, time to deploy and pricing.
Below is a, back-of-napkin, rough estimate of what it would cost to deploy this type of solution.
The costs reflected represent a turnkey solution requiring a 3rd party vendor design/build. This
estimate is mid-range not too conservative nor high end. The actual price could swing significantly
depending on the technology used and bandwidth expectations.
These are privately owned mobile home parks which will require collaboration with the owners to
design and deploy service, as well as to set agreement regarding operation, support and maintenance of
the systems.
At this time, we are looking at options to improve bandwidth performance at the parks we have already
deployed. We are continuing to work with Poudre School District on the deployed solutions as well as
support PSD with any new solutions needed in the future.
Description Poudre Valley Hickory Village Timber Ridge 1 Timber Ridge 2 Harmony Village
Distance North to South in Ft. 1,200 1,200 1,200 1,200 2,376
Distance East to West in Ft. 800 800 1,200 1,400 1,250
Total Sq Ft. 960,000 960,000 1,440,000 1,680,000 2,970,000
sq ft per AP assuming 100
radius coverage 34,996 34,997 34,998 34,999 35,000
APs needed 27 27 41 48 85
Price per AP installed $ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00
Subtotal: $ 82,285.71 $ 82,285.71 $ 123,428.57 $ 144,000.00 $ 254,571.43
Per price backhaul $ 1,500.00 $ 1,500.00 $ 1,500.00 $ 1,500.00 $ 1,500.00
Price per AP With Backhaul $ 123,428.57 $ 123,428.57 $ 185,142.86 $ 216,000.00 $ 381,857.14
Extenders $100 per student,
100 students per park $ 10,000 $ 10,000 $ 10,000 $ 10,000 $ 10,000
Professional Services $ 50,000 $ 50,000 $ 50,000 $ 50,000 $ 50,000
Grand Total $ 183,429 $ 183,429 $ 245,143 $ 276,000 $ 441,857