Following a year-long planning and construction process, the first site on the Town of Holly Springs, North Carolina’s 19-mile municipal fiber network came online today—and the immediate spike in network traffic patterns ratified the Town’s vision of freeing itself from bandwidth constraints. The first live site on the network is a community center, which offers […]
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Today, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and CTC Technology & Energy released a new report on local broadband networks, “The Art of the Possible: An Overview of Public Broadband Options.” The report is intended to serve as a primer for local government and community leaders on different approaches to public broadband networks. The […]
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Public Knowledge, the New America Foundation, and the Benton Foundation have filed CTC’s analysis of AT&T’s proposal for wire center trials in the Federal Communications Commission’s IP transition proceeding. This filing—“Response to AT&T’s Proposal for Wire Center Trials in the IP Transition Proceeding”—follows up on an earlier report we prepared on behalf of Public Knowledge […]
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CTC Technology & Energy has launched a project with the City of Raleigh, North Carolina to develop a roadmap for meeting the city’s future networking needs. CTC engineers will perform a technical assessment of the city’s current network plans, develop a strategy for fiber construction, and provide detailed guidance on middle-mile network operations. Our business […]
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Arlington County, Virginia announced the next step in the development of its visionary ConnectArlington fiber network. Over the next year, the county plans to make dark fiber available for lease by businesses—offering “the highest levels of security to provide unprecedented opportunities for secure collaboration with the nation’s top defense and research agencies, including the Pentagon.” […]
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Great discussions yesterday at the IWCE conference in Las Vegas. I was a panelist on the In-Building-Wireless and DAS fundamentals session. We reviewed public safety, commercial, and DAS systems that combined both of these elements. The panelists brought great perspectives from a carrier’s, a city planner’s, a fire chief and a radio equipment manufacturer’s […]
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CTC Principal Engineer Shawn Thompson will address the IWCE Expo on March 24, 2014 on how local government is uniquely able to help public safety and improve in-building wireless by coordinating a unified DAS strategy and using government-owned assets such as government-owned fiber. Shawn will discuss steps taken by Washington, DC and other cities. Comprehensive […]
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CTC Technology & Energy (CTC) applauds FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s statement today that the Commission will take steps to preserve the open Internet. Chairman Wheeler’s commitment to preventing discrimination among Internet traffic and enhancing competition is essential to ensuring that the Internet can continue to support innovation, local economic development, and public discourse. In particular, […]
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CTC Technology & Energy’s President Joanne Hovis, was featured as a guest blogger for Google on the Google Fiber blog. Joanne outlined the recommendations of our Gigabit Communities report for facilitating broadband development for local communities, seen below and at googlefiberblog.blogspot.com. “In 2009, city leaders and residents in Chattanooga made a bold decision — they built […]
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CTC Technology & Energy joined a coalition of private sector companies in urging the Kansas legislature to reject an industry-authored bill that would prohibit community broadband projects, including those in partnership with private companies. The bill would preclude almost any local broadband initiative, including those like the partnership between Kansas City and Google. This kind […]
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