disruptive broadband
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Presented at the Super Wi-Fi Summit in Miami, Florida February 1, 2011TRANSCRIPT
A Wireless End-‐Run
A Wireless End-‐Run
Brough Turner netBlazr Inc.
Middle mile dispari=es
• Cost of “Internet transit,” i.e. 95th percen=le of 5 minute measurements of actual traffic
• WISP in rural Wisconson: $135/Mbps/month – Working on P2P wireless link to obtain $65/Mbps
• WISP in mid-‐state Ohio: $40/Mbps
• WISP near Omaha, Nebraska: $1.85/Mbps
• Backbone data center: < $1/Mbps
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Verizon $500/mo 1.5/1.5 Mbps
Cogent $700/mo 100/100 Mbps
Internet Access – Uncompe==ve
• 1 or 2 ver=cally integrated monopolies – Telco – Cableco
• US rela=ve global rank falling every year • Public policy unable to improve situa=on
Internet Access – Uncompe==ve
• 1 or 2 ver=cally integrated monopolies – Telco – Cableco
• US rela=ve global rank falling every year • Public policy unable to improve situa=on
Change the commercial landscape !
netBlazr – Radical Change
5 GHz, not TV White Spaces
Short range, high capacity point-‐to-‐point links
• 5 GHz: Direc=onal antennas fit in windows – TVWS antennas are huge
• 5 GHz: Ten 40 MHz channels available – TVWS: just a few 6 MHz channels in urban areas
CAPEX per Subscriber Advantage
$-‐ $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700 $800
netBlazr
TowerStream
ATT DSL
Verizon 4G LTE
Clearwire
Comcast BB
Verizon FiOS
netBlazr Evolu=on
Stage 2: netBlazr Coopera=ve ISP
Head End Breakeven – just 11 subs
Fiber back-‐haul (Cogent) $800
Equipment (amor=zed 24 mos) $100
Soiware and Hos=ng $100
TOTAL $1000
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$1,000
$2,000
$3,000
$4,000
$5,000
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Monthly OPEX
Monthly Revenue
11 Subs
S u b s c r i b e r s
$10 B Transferred to Customers
netBlazr Leader in new smaller market
$12 B $2 B
