Deployment Guide/Workbook

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This is a workbook for estimating the cost of a large-scale deployment of One Laptop Per Child. It is a working document that reflects lessons learned from our initial pilots and deployments. Additional ideas will be incorporated as we learn from each other.

It is available in Microsoft Excel format: Deployment_Workbook.xls

Introduction

The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Deployment Workbook contains six worksheets. There are two worksheets for use in planning: Country and School. The Country worksheet takes information about overall number of laptops and rough percentages of schools and provides a rough estimate of the costs. The School worksheet takes detailed information about a particular school and provides an estimate of the required infrastructure, power, and costs given different power scenarios.

These estimated costs depend on the accuracy of the system component costs specified in the Laptop Costs, Program Costs, and Other Costs worksheets. While the defaults provided are based on commercially available components, these must be updated to reflect current and local prices for these components before using this workbook to estimate costs.

How to use the workbook

  • Determine local prices for items such as school servers, generators, wireless access points, wireless switches, the cost of running a Cat5 network cable or power cable for 30m in a typical school, and update the Other Costs worksheet.

Workbook Description

Country Expenses Estimate

Individual School Expenses Estimate

This worksheet calculates the estimated expenses for a particular school, illustrating the costs of different power generation and distribution schemes. It has two sections. The first contains six fields that describe the school, the remainder of the worksheet shows estimated power usage and costs.

To be filled by the Country

Number of laptops in the school - The total number of XO laptops deployed at a school, including teachers and students.

Internet Connectivity - How the school will be connected to the Internet. Allowed options are:

  • DSL - A DSL broadband connection
  • VSAT - A satellite connection
  • GSM - A cellular telephone data connection, GPRS, EDGE, or other (3G)
  • Other - An alternative local method may be specified
  • None - no Internet connection will be provided

The local costs of each of these options, in terms of money and power, must be specified in the Other Costs worksheet.

Laptop Usage - The number of times a laptop will be charged in a day. To specify a usage model where laptops are continuously connected (both charging and operating) throughout the day, specify 2. Fractional values --- such as 0.5, indicating one charge every two days --- may be specified.

Infrastructure Usage -

How much storage -

Hours of sunlight per day - The number of hours per day that the school receives sunlight acceptable for generating solar power.

Suggested Infrastructure

Estimated Costs

With Grid Power

With Grid & XOP

With Grid & MBC

Laptop Costs

Program Costs

Other Costs

Examples