Disaster Recovery

Technologies, Systems & Services

What technology allows us to do

What Can Be Done to Connect?

A broadband IP connection can be created anywhere in a matter of minutes after arrival of a transportable package

Interface mitigation can insure that this IP pipe created will efficiently support any application

Remote centers can support any application over the IP pipe

Base Stations or Radio Nodes can be delivered and commissioned in 24 hours or less

What Can Be Done to Serve?

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Any element replaced must function in the carriers network and the worldwide network as it did before the disaster

Dialing plans must be the same

Global address must be the same

Network identifiers must be the same

For quick replacement, this must be planned

Network Element Replacement

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30 Satellites using 3 frequency bands serve CANTO

All different each aimed at a specific subset of applications

CANNOT compare HZ to HZ on satellite systems must look at the cost of moving a bit for specific applications

GEO Satellite Technologies

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NGN concepts allow the use of multiple transport stream technologies MTST to support bandwidth

GEOSAT, Inmarsat, MPLS is typical set

Extend the cloud with whatever can be made available

Multiple Transport Stream Technology

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MTST System

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MTST Restoral Trailer

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After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Globecomm helped re-store voice and date communications to approximately thirty Home Depot locations in the Southeast United States.

This allowed supply chain orders for urgently needed home and building materials to continue even with the absence of terrestrial communications.

Hurricane Katrina, Home Depot, Fall 2005

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Wildfires, Camp Hope, Ramona California

During the fires Globecomm provided Camp Hope with:

• Satellite equipment• Computers• Satellite Internet connectivity

- Provided fire victims a way to communicate with families

- Provided Wi-Fi to relief agencies working in the area, FEMA and the Red Cross, to better perform their tasks.

- Over 500,000 people fled. The fires destroyed over 1,400 homes and cost at least two lives in America’s most populous state.

California Wildfires, Camp Hope 2007

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Disaster RecoveryPanel

End Presentation

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A redundant Core can be located for each operator

A common Core can be created for the CANTO Group

Restoral services can be acquired from a Host

Dedicated or Hosted Restoral?

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Connectivity Terrestrial restoral may be possible Satellite as back up for everything that cannot be done

Lost Core network Transfer to back up Transfer to hosted service

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Data and Value added services Transfer to back up Transfer to hosted service

Restoring the Network

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Requires a recovery team to evaluate every link

Requires replacement systems for each type of link

Requires detail engineering of each link Path Analysis Link Analysis Interference Analysis (not required for cable solutions) Structural Analysis

Terrestrial Connectivity Recovery

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Available anywhere you can see the sky

Many types of satellite systems Direct Satellite Phones

(Irridium) Direct satellite Data Terminals

(Inmarsat) Leased bandwidth on

Geostationary Satellites New KA band shared bandwidth

systems

Even more types of satellite services

Satellite Connectivity

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Irridium: A satellite based mobile telephone service

Inmarsat: A small data terminal need only the terminal and a subscription (Lap top size)

Traditional Geostationary (GEO) systems require a VSAT terminal and a bandwidth lease

Ka spot beam services

Satellite Systems (cost order)

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A direct data service by satellite (voice only terminals also available)

Can be used to support a small wireline switch or low capacity cell site

An emergency communication strategy for internal or first responder use

Not practical for network restoral

Inmarsat BEGAN

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Irridium connects directly to the PSTN providing emergency communications

It is a great first response technology

It is NOT a network restoral technology

Irridium

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Capital costs are higher than Irridium and Inmarsat Bandwidth costs are much lower Automated terminals are available for this application

eliminating the need for a skilled operator (press the green button to start)

commonly used in commercial applications to isolated service areas

GEO satellite can be used for network restoral and continuity

(GEO) Satellite

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Terminals allow a provider to establish robust communication access points wher ever and whenever they are needed.

A satellite-based system gives first responders the portable, reliable and interoperable communications needed under any conditions, from any place where they can see the sky.

Auto acquiring systems are important in this application, as first responders on the ground do not have the knowledge, equipment or time to worry about how to align a satellite antenna with a satellite above. In a disaster situation, they need to be able to press a button and go live.

Highly-Automated Satellite Terminals

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This technology uses a cellular structure to allow frequency reuse

Most systems are planning shared bandwidth on a metered service basis

Raw bandwidth costs 10% of traditional GEO

New Breed KA Band Spot Beam Satellites

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Size Matters

Rural Connections

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VPN to any any service restoration center CANTO owned dedicated center Globecomm Hosting center in NY Individual hosting centers Un effected CANTO networks equipped to support hosted services

Connectivity to The PSTN

Tier 1 on the Internet

Restoration with MTST

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Recovery of a GSM cellular operator Lost 5% of Base Stations Lost NOC and call Center Lost Switching Center Lost all Local Telecommunications

An Example

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Mobile Shelter with MTST deployed near or at switching center site

NOC and call center functions restored (Agility) Connect to hosted service center for all core services Deploy satellite supported RAN elements Deploy diesel generators where required

Systems Deployed

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Core elements of the network at a hosting center can have separate servers for each network supported or have software loads ready to down loaded

RAN configurations are stored for all base stations supported

They are tested on the network as the replaced node before shipping

Requires planning

Element Replacement cont.

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• Restore central office facilities

• Scalable solutions for a mixture of IT and end user recovery

• Pre-wired facilities for voice and data

• In combination with Quick Ship technology

• Auxiliary power generation via diesel generator

• MTST communications for voice and data

Mobile/Quick Ship Solutions

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Restoral Core will have the same identity in the signaling network so all roaming will

Global address is maintained on the WW network Network titles are maintained on the WW network

Replacing Your Node on the World-Wide Network

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An exercise for Disaster Recovery

When Globecomm hosts a network, it must use its Core, but be seamless to all other carriers and the world-wide network

Globecomm hosts the networks of Fifteen customers across the US, Africa and Afghanistan

Hosting Networks

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Cost a moving a minute of voice is a function of availability and investment in he terminal

Typical GEO VSAT cost to move I minute of voice in a low density environment is: $.001 to $.005 at 99.95%

availability and 2% blocking Irridium orders of magnitude

higher

Cost to move data in the coming 3G environment?

Is Satellite Too Expensive?

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Backhaul to Isolated Cells