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Fiber to the Hunter’s Creek – Fiber to the Home Pioneer
One of the effects of the rapid pace of innovation is that history is also created faster than in centuries past. In trying to keep up with the present, it is easy to forget or downplay the relatively recent past. These thoughts were going through the back of my mind in a recent interview with…
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Proactively Promoting “Greenlining”
Those with concerns about the potential for redlining as Google builds its fiber networks, should listen to this interview with KC Digital Drive’s Managing Director, Aaron Deacon. KC Digital Drive is public-private partnership that was a vision of the respective mayors of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. The intent of the organization is to…
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3 Tips for Building Community Broadband – Part 2
In part 2 of this two-part interview, Dr. Tim Nulty suggests that those wishing to replicate ecFiber.net‘s rural broadband network build-out should follow these three basic steps: Develop a lean business plan and and a lean network. Organize an institution that can implement the plan and maintain the network. He describes an interesting public-private partnership to…
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Bootstrapping an All Fiber Network – Part 1
“You can’t conduct your life with dial-up; this [broadband] isn’t a luxury question,” said Dr. Tim Nulty of ecFiber.net. In part one of this two-part interview, he explains how one community is bootstrapping the creation of an all fiber network in a very rural part of Vermont. His comments, made in April 2012, were prescient…
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Fiber to the Island
A 2007 recipient of the Urban Land Institute’s prestigious “Awards for Excellence”, Daniel Island is a national model of smart growth. In the above interview, Daniel Island Company president, Matthew Sloan, describes their vision to create a distinct community, while serving as an extension of Charleston, South Carolina. Twenty years later, with some 3,000 residences,…
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Days of the Fiber Future Are Past
Congratulations to Diane Kruse of NEO fiber for her appointment as the chairperson for the 2013 Broadband Communities Summit. Kruse is well qualified for this role, as she was chairperson of the FTTH Council and has formed several start-ups associated with and been involved in multiple fiber deployments. ViodiTV has covered the BBC Summit for Broadband…
