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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Last month, we published our report for Google, in which we layout the fundaments in a “How-to” strategy guide for facilitating a Gigabit Community. Since, we have received great feedback from the community including tweets from the Head of Community Affairs for Google and other industry pundits whom are promoting our work. This month, we […]
CTC Technology & Energy has helped hundreds of cities nationwide to evaluate and build the business case for municipal broadband networks. Albuquerque is the latest City to tap CTC Technology & Energy’s expertise and we are proud to work with the City. We will develop a strategy for providing a network connecting the City’s key […]
CTC Technology & Energy would like to congratulate the Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation (KHERF), on receiving approval from the Universal Services Administration Company to move forward with their vision of the Kansas Health-e Broadband Consortium. The Kansas Health-e Broadband Consortium is a collaboration of healthcare related organizations in Kansas developing and maintaining a dedicated broadband network […]
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The Consortium for ITS Training and Education (CITE) will once again offer Matthew DeHaven’s courses for ITS professionals in their curriculum. The two courses are managed by the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT) and are offered at the University of Maryland. Matthew DeHaven is CTC Technology & Energy’s lead network engineer and subject-matter expert […]