[1st-mile-nm] CenturyLink Gigabit Services

[Michael Harris]

I wonder is this means a general expansion of MOE or the roll out of some
other type of service.

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Michael Harris
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President, Visgence Inc.
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On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> wrote:

> *CenturyLink Aims Gigabit at Businesses*
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> Jason Meyers, Senior Editor, Gigabit Cities/IoT       12/3/2014
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> http://www.lightreading.com/gigabit/gigabit-cities/centurylink-aims-gigabit-at-businesses/d/d-id/712376
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> When it comes to gigabit broadband, CenturyLink means business -- and
> that's setting it apart from many others.
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> Despite the fact that one of the central claims about
> gigabit-scale networks in cities is that they will attract businesses and
> drive economic development, many of the early gigabit broadband
> deployments are focused primarily on residential consumers. CenturyLink
> Inc. (NYSE: CTL), however, is signaling that its gigabit efforts will have
> a business spin.
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> "We see a tremendous range of services we can offer over the cloud, and
> bundling cloud services with our gigabit capabilities is a very compelling
> offer for SMBs and smaller sites of larger businesses," says Shirish Lal,
> chief marketing officer at CenturyLink.
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> The carrier announced in August that it would begin delivering
> gigabit services over its network in parts of 16 cities. In 10 of them
> -- Columbia, Mo.; Denver; Jefferson City, Mo.; Las Vegas;
> Minneapolis-St. Paul; Omaha; Orlando; Portland; Salt Lake City; and Seattle
> -- the carrier is serving both residents and businesses.
>
> In six other markets -- *Albuquerque, N.M.*; Colorado Springs;
> Phoenix; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Spokane, Wash.; and Tuscon, Ariz. -- the
> operator will aim its 1Gbit/s services solely at businesses.
>
> CenturyLink is in the early stages of deployment in all of those markets
> and has yet to fully define its marketing strategy, but the focus on
> business usage likely will differentiate its efforts from competitors --
> including the disruptive Google Fiber Inc. -- that are mostly positioning
> ultra-high-speed connectivity as a residential benefit. Lal points to
> virtualized network functions as one example of how a gigabit connection
> might benefit business customers and CenturyLink.
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> "We're moving toward delivering network functions on a virtualized basis
> rather than traditional network appliances," he says. "The
> gigabit connection creates a very different scenario in terms of
> the capabilities you can deliver."
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