How Publicly Owned Networks Start
On the Daily Yonder - offering coverage of rural issues - Craig Settles offers advice to community networks on the need to attract institution and business customers because networks rarely generate...
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Santa Monica and South Hadley Expand Networks
TMCNET interviews Jory Wolf - the CIO of Santa Monica's Information Systems Department - about their application for broadband stimulus funds. Santa Monica has long used its publicly owned network to...
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Santa Monica Brings 10Gbps Connections to Local Businesses
Santa Monica has built an impressive fiber network to connect local government buildings, schools, parks, and local businesses. With local jobs dependent on massive media studios that require very...
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Publicly Owned Fiber Connects Hollywood Studios
We've previously noted the successes of the Santa Monica approach to leasing dark fiber, but a new article reveals that Los Angeles, Burbank, and Anaheim also lease city-owned fiber assets.In fact,...
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Presentation and Panel Discussion about Community Broadband
Craig Settles kicks off this event with a 45 minute presentation discussing what community networks should do to succeed financially and how they can go beyond simply making broadband access available...
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Santa Monica's City Net Recognized by Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School
We have frequently encouraged communities to learn more about Santa Monica's approach to incrementally building a publicly owned fiber-optic broadband network, which has just received another award....
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More Details from the Incredible Santa Monica City Net
Santa Monica's approach to building community owned broadband that puts the community first has been wildly successful. They have not focused on providing residential connections, and likely will not...
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Santa Monica Receives Another Award for City Fiber Network
Santa Monica has received yet another award for its publicly owned broadband network, not too long after it received award from the Ash Center at Harvard University. Santa Monica’s broadband initiative...
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Santa Monica Named Among Top 15 Government Innovators
Congratulations to the city of Santa Monica, for adding another award to their long list. On September 18th, city leaders announced that InformationWeek 500 named the city to the 2012 list of...
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Santa Monica's Telecommunications Master Plan
In 1998, Santa Monica created a Telecommunications Master Plan that has guided it for the past fifteen years in building an impressive fiber network connecting all community anchor institutions and...
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Santa Monica City Net Case Study
Publication Date: March 5, 2014 Author(s): Eric Lampland Author(s): Christopher Mitchell Santa Monica has built a fiber network called City Net that has lowered its own costs for telecommunications,...
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Exploring Santa Monica's Incremental Fiber Approach - Community Broadband...
Just a few weeks after releasing our case study of Santa Monica's City Net, we have an opportunity to interview Jory Wolf, CIO of Santa Monica, and the chief driver of City Net. This is episode #90 of...
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Business, Education Call on Culver City to Invest in Muni Fiber in L.A. County
Last fall, Culver City hired a consultant to develop a design and business plan for a possible fiber network project. Recently, prominent business leaders and parents of local school children have...
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Community Broadband Media Roundup - September 19, 2014
The media is picking up on Chairman Wheeler’s notice to big telecom: 4Mbps is not going to cut it anymore. Wheeler said speeds closer to 10Mbps should be classified as high speed. A good step, but by...
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City Net Brings 100 Gbps to Santa Monica, California
For one of the fastest municipal networks in the U.S., travel to Santa Monica and sample City Net. The City just announced network capacity and speed upgrades to 100 Gbps. City Net is available to many...
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Next Century Cities Launch Webcast on October 20
Municipalities are increasingly realizing they need to take steps to ensure fast, affordable, reliable Internet access for local citizens. Some are doing the work themselves with publicly owned...
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Community Broadband Media Roundup - October 17
This week, cities took the stage and made some very important moves to restore their local authority. From cities resisting big media mergers, to those choosing to join the new Next Century Cities...
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San Francisco Looks to Expand Muni Fiber and Wi-Fi
San Francisco has long been considered a modern, glittering, tech capital. For years its leaders have struggled with ensuring residents and businesses actually had next-generation Internet access as...
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Vallejo Commits to Develop Fiber Master Plan
Vallejo recently hired Jory Wolf, CIO from Santa Monica, to help develop a fiber optic master plan, reports the Times Herald. A fiber network now controls the city's intelligent transportation system...
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Community Broadband Media Roundup - May 15
Community Broadband Stories, by State:CaliforniaA Disconnected Valley: SCV's high-speed technology crawls by Jana Adkins, Signal Santa Clarita ValleyWhy Santa Monica Built its Own Internet Service: It...
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