Category: Guidance Materials

NY State Broadband Program Office Connect NY 2.0 Toolkit

Access to broadband provides greater economic opportunities and a better way of life for all New Yorkers. By harnessing the power of the Internet, citizens have increased ability to connect to educational and workforce development resources; communities can foster economic development; businesses can access new markets and create more jobs; and our schools, colleges and universities can conduct high-tech research and development to build an innovative and talented high-tech workforce.

A Gigabit Garden Begins to Grow: Lessons from the First Planting

Is the wireline network that serves your community good enough to meet your  needs 10 years from now? If the answer is “yes”, you’re in luck. Because we can guarantee you will be able to have that network. If the answer is “no”, then the question is: what are you going to do about it?  Because if current trends continue, what your community has today might well be what it has a decade hence.

Eliminating the Waiting Game and Driving Network Uptake

By Doug Adams & Michael Curri, Strategic Networks Group

In working across the globe and working with multiple carriers deploying new, more robust broadband networks, Strategic Networks Group (SNG) consistently comes up against the notion that once the network is built, adoption will naturally follow. “Build it and they will come” is a school of thought that expresses the great hope that potential subscribers will naturally adopt, however this notion goes against what we have always known about technology adoption.

Can’t Afford Broadband for Your Community? Think again.

By Craig Settles

I spent Monday and Tuesday this week at the Freedom to Connect (F2C) conference in DC, which was a great event on many levels. One truly cool aspect was hanging out with a bunch of advocates and doers who believe in the power of communities finding their best broadband solutions (from a myriad of public, private and nonprofit options) to address the dismal state of broadband in the US.

Primer: What Fiber Broadband Can Do For Your Community

From Broadband Communities Magazine

Fiber to the home (FTTH) has become the leading technology for next-generation communications networks worldwide. On every continent, telecom providers are building fiber optic networks. They know that only FTTH can meet the growing demand for broadband services that require delivering video to (and from) multiple tablets, computers and television sets in a home, all at the same time.

 

How Three Communities Built Next-Generation Networks

Frustrated by ever-increasing prices for telecommunication services and the reluctance of incumbent providers to upgrade their networks to meet 21st century needs, more than 150 communities have built their own citywide cable and FTTH networks. Against great odds and in the face of ferocious opposition by the existing telephone and cable companies in the courts, at the legislature, and in the marketplace, the vast majority have succeeded

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Fiber-to-the-X: the economics of last-mile fiber

Lately the word “fiber” has started to become ubiquitous in advertisements for broadband. It’s a synonym for the future, for speed and quality. Everybody tries to connect that synonym to their brand, regardless of their actual network design. In the trade press, acronyms like FttX (which stands for Fiber-to-the-X, where X is your favorite letter or word) are used as if all last mile network architectures with optical fiber are more or less equal.

Financing Community Broadband

By Cathy Swirlbul

Municipal utilities are expanding into offering broadband service for a variety of reasons. Some communities have a history of providing utility services through public ownership. Other areas pursue community broadband when the incumbent cable and telecommunications companies fail to provide the service. What these projects have in common is the need for financing. The reality of financing in today’s market, though, may be different from commonly held perceptions.

FTTH Handbook (2011)

The FTTH Handbook was the first major publication produced by the FTTH Council Europe.  Originally issued in 2007, its purpose was to provide an impartial source of information about the options available for deployment of optical fibre cable. The scope of the book was later expanded to include the technical options for lighting up the fibre, including both passive optical network and Active Ethernet systems, and the customer premises equipment.