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[Bowdon]

Remote Balquhidder Community Preps Own 1Gbps FTTH Broadband

The remote rural community of Balquhidder in the Stirling council area of Scotland has setup its own Community Interest Company (CIC) and is poised to start the roll-out of an ultrafast 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which could benefit up to 170 local properties.

The idea for the new community network only came together recently after it became clear that the main £410m Digital Scotland project, which is predominantly helping BT to roll-out their “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network to 95% of the country by the end of 2017/18, confirmed that Balquhidder would not benefit from its deployment.

[mlmclaren]

My homelands doing it right 

[G.DMT]

A fairly detailed write up there by Mark Jackson on ispreview.co.uk

He has handily recorded all in one place much of what I Googled along with the livestream
from UK Network Operators Forum 34 on Thursday, 21 April 2016

 
Full details of all the talks here:
https://indico.uknof.org.uk/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=36

I see that a playlist of all the UKNOF34 presentations was posted to youtube yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjzK5ZtLlc91r5YZVNiebhcq0W5aB5Zu6

Direct link to that particular talk from
David Johnston of Balquhidder Community Broadband CIC

UKNOF34 - Balquhidder Community Broadband Community Interest Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8yrfNtnsQI&list=PLjzK5ZtLlc91r5YZVNiebhcq0W5aB5Zu6&index=13

I personaly found these 3 the most technical/interesting but I am a unix & networks guy so YMMV 

IPv6 Only Hosting
dnsdist: DNS, latency and DoS-aware load balancing
Implementing "safe browsing" cost effectively using open source DNS

[WWWombat]

Ta... I've been waiting for those to hit YouTube.

There was a B4RN update too, wasn't there?

[G.DMT]

I missed that one at the time.

1750 properties connected now!
Average take up ~65%
8 full time and 2 part time employees.

UKNOF34 - The evolution of the B4RN network
Speaker: Mr. Tom Rigg (Broadband for the Rural North Ltd)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Xm_-gt6mw&index=9&list=PLjzK5ZtLlc91r5YZVNiebhcq0W5aB5Zu6