[1st-mile-nm] 3.8.7

[Andrew Cohill]

On Mar 8, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Marianne Granoff wrote:

>>
>>
>> Palo Alto Moves Forward With FTTH - Picks 180Connect
>> for $41 million long-delayed build.., Broadband
>> Reports, 3/8/2007
>> The city of Palo Alto, California, was one of the very first  
>> cities to explore building their own broadband
>> network. In fact, they laid dark fiber infrastructure as early as  
>> 1996 and used a limited portion of that
>> network to conduct fiber trials.  http://www.dslreports.com/ 
>> shownews/82146
>>
>

180Connect is a large national design/build firm.  The more  
interesting part of the story is that the system will have an open  
services architecture:  multiple service providers in multiple  
categories.  In a word:  competition.  Users will be able to choose  
from many Internet access providers, multiple TV programming  
providers, multiple telephone (VoIP) providers, and a wide array of  
other kinds of services, including network backups, IP-based security  
services, telehealth services, video on demand, and specialized  
gaming services with low bandwidth/low latency, among others.

Telecom prices typically decline an average of 15% to 20% in an open  
services architecture.

Andrew


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