[1st-mile-nm] CenturyLink - Santa Fe Fiber Project

[Richard Lowenberg]

No responses.
I assume the projects are unrelated.
I am also interested in knowing if the CenturyLink fiber deployment
is direct to the noted facilities, or if it is to support extending
copper connectivity to them (at what bandwidth range and services cost)?
RL


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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
1st-Mile Institute     505-603-5200
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504,
rl at 1st-mile.org     www.1st-mile.org
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On 2016-09-12 11:58, John Brown wrote:
> I never saw a response to this email.  Did the City respond ??
> 
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> 
> wrote:
>> Question: How will this 'completed' fiber project relate to the $1 M. 
>> that
>> the City spent on a fiber (CenturyLink bypass) project over the past 
>> couple
>> of years, and what is the status of that?   Further details from City 
>> staff
>> on this list would be appreciated.    RL
>> 
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>> 
>> City Sites Ready for High-Speed Internet
>> 
>> http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/city-sites-ready-for-high-speed-internet/article_ef37b30a-b600-5b37-ad49-b4629c38a2f6.html
>> 
>> Posted: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 | Updated: 12:00 am, Wed Aug 24, 
>> 2016.
>> By Daniel J. Chacón, The New Mexican
>> 
>> Mayor Javier Gonzales teamed up Tuesday with CenturyLink to announce 
>> the
>> completion of a project designed to deliver high-speed internet 
>> service at
>> 32 city-owned sites, some of which are frequently used by the public,
>> including City Hall, Municipal Court and the airport.
>> 
>> For city government, the installation of 6.5 miles of fiber-optic 
>> cable and
>> higher speeds are supposed to translate into improved efficiency. For
>> ordinary citizens, it means faster internet speeds at the main and 
>> branch
>> libraries and other government buildings, and the ability to conduct 
>> more
>> city business online.
>> 
>> “Being a government, a true digital government, requires some basic
>> infrastructure investments, and fiber is one of those areas that we 
>> have to
>> make sure we invest in [in the] quest to becoming a digital 
>> government,”
>> Gonzales said during a news conference in the Santa Fe Municipal 
>> Airport as
>> a steady stream of travelers zipped by and the airport announcer spoke 
>> over
>> some of the dignitaries.
>> 
>> “I would apologize for all the noise and the activity, but I’m not 
>> going to
>> because that’s commerce and it’s travel, and it’s really important to 
>> our
>> community,” joked Cameron “Cam” Humphres, the city’s airport manager.
>> 
>> Renée Martínez, director of the city’s Information Technology and
>> Telecommunications Department, said the $500,000 project to upgrade 
>> internet
>> service was funded by CenturyLink. “It was their investment,” she 
>> said.
>> 
>> Martínez also said high-speed internet to the airport and other “very
>> important work sites” represents a “big milestone in a larger 
>> project.”
>> 
>> “This is an investment that’s very important to a very significant
>> modernization initiative that the city has underway,” she said. “In 
>> the next
>> two or three years, the city will be replacing most of its larger
>> information systems, including our financial, our human resources,
>> permitting [and] inspection. What it will allow us to do is connect 
>> citizens
>> to city services in a way we’ve never been able to.”
>> 
>> (snip)
>> 
>> 
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>> Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
>> 1st-Mile Institute     505-603-5200
>> Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504,
>> rl at 1st-mile.org     www.1st-mile.org
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