HUBS

Community Broadband Infrastructure in Scotland

HUBS or High-Speed Universal Broadband for Scotland assists in the provision of high speed Internet access to communities in rural areas of Scotland. HUBS accomplishes this by providing infrastructure support and technical expertise to local community networks which are ultimately owned, constructed and maintained by the communities themselves. HUBS has assisted and is currently assisting about 20 communities across Scotland. HUBS provides the following

Advice on network planning
Equipment loan for pilot projects
Where possible, personal visits to establish feasibility
Technical help on network configuration and management

Please see howto pages for some ideas of what may involved in developing a community network. To contact us, please send e-mail to staff@tegola.org.uk.

HUBS is funded by the Carnegie University Trust and is a joint enterprise between the University of the Highlands and Islands, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling.

Tegola

HUBS grew out of the Tegola project, which is a testbed for research into rural broadband technology based at the University of Edinburgh.

Recent News

Report on developing rural broadband

14 Oct 2013

A report has just been released, written and subscribed to by people involved in community broadband, on what is needed to help the substantial fraction of rural Scotland not included in government plans for fast broadband.

Section 36

18 Apr 2013

The European Commission has cleared the disbursement of public funds to telecommunications carriers (read BT) in order to construct network infrastructure in remote areas where it would otherwise not be eonomically feasible. The EU has placed a condition that bears directly on the ability of others to make use of this subsidised build.

Pretty pictures with Povray

24 Mar 2013

This post is about how to make pictures like this. It’s a little technical and assumes some knowledge about working with UNIX command line tools and working with geographical data. If you’re not interested in those sorts of things, then feel free to just enjoy the pretty pictures! The first thing is the observation that...