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Fiber Design for the New Millennium
The high-level concepts for how to deploy Fiber to the Home have been around for decades. It is the process and incremental improvements in technology that has expanded the use of fiber from specialized to mass application. We caught up with Ron Cassel of Matrix Design Group who talks about a rural Vermont fiber project…
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A New Gig for U and U and U
Blair Levin, lead author of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, discusses his latest venture with 37 research universities in this video interview filmed at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit. He hints at the May 23rd announcement of Gig.U partnering with Gigabit Squared to provide $200M of capital to support 6 Gig.U member-sponsored communities. Inspired by…
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A Primer on a Fiber Primer
Broadband can be a powerful tool for transforming a rural community. Educating the community as to the possible benefits of a fiber rollout is a challenge. In this exclusive interview at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit, Mark Erikson, City Administrator and Economic Development Director for the city of Winthrop, MN, describes how the Broadband Communities’ Fiber…
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Sneak Peek of the Internet Peering Book
The technical and economic aspects surrounding Internet peering are central to a just published book by Bill Norton, also known as “Dr. Peering”. In this interview, filmed at Parks Associates’ Connections™ conference, we catch up with this former member of the founding team of Equinix and former chairman of NANOG and find out his motivation…
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Broadband Key to Economic Development & More
In the is interview at the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit, Graham Richard, former mayor of Fort Wayne, IN, discusses the relationship between broadband and economic development. He talks about the role of fiber for improving the delivery of municipal services. He cites statistics that suggest that businesses getting started in homes where there is FTTH…
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Championing Economic Development
Jim Baller of the Baller Herbst Law Group points out that economic development is the key motivation for the creation of broadband networks. At the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit, Baller led a track on economic development as it relates to broadband. He also discusses the role of a champion in making broadband successful in a…
