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UTB-CBIRD Report: “At The Crossroads” Economic Development 143 CASE PROFILES: HI-TECH ENTREPRENEURSHIP Brownsville Public Utility Board (www.brownsville-pub.com) Know-how Capital Talent Infrastructure Research Utilities & fiber Equipment Skilled labor Provider GIS & Lydar The Brownsville Public Utility Board (PUB) partnered with The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College and the City of Brownsville to provide broadband Internet access via existing fiber loops. UTB/USC is operating a Campus LAN and a microwave antenna that communicates streaming audio/video to universities in Matamoros. “The Brownsville Independent School District would like to use our fiber to connect multiple campuses... Currently, ten to fifteen percent of our network is dark fiber [not in use]. We could use this fiber to enhance access to the Brownsville Public Schools, but to do this we need to enhance our internal Nortel hardware technology to accommodate their needs.” Jose Luis Lopez. 1 The technical resources and manpower needed to create a Brownsville-based community network currently exist. The PUB is in the process of installing hi-quality fiber in the outer edges of the city to meet PUB’s internal needs. Jose Luis Lopez, PUB’s director of Information Services, has taught at UTB/TSC and is on the UTB/TSC advisory board. He believes the PUB could work with UTB/TSC to create a website that would focus on a community network. Having taught at UTB/TSC, he is confident that UTB/TSC students have the needed capabilities. He believes in hiring local talent as about half of PUB’s current IT staff were recruited from UTB/TSC. A Linux user group at UTB/TSC maintains a server farm that is on the cutting edge of Linux technologies. With appropriate funding and visionary leadership at UTB/TSC a student project could create a Community Network portal where the PUB could serve the project site with fiber connections that are already serving UTB/TSC. Figure 5.23 shows PUB fiber in green to illustrate that content development for Brownsville Community Portal could use existing fiber and be hosted within UTB’s existing Linux Open Source Research Center facilities. 1 Exerpts from interview of Jose Luis Lopez, Brownsville Public Utility Board, conducted by Mark Gipson, summer 2002. One Region -- One Future The technical resources and manpower needed to create a Brownsvillebased community network already exist.
UTB-CBIRD Report: “At The Crossroads” Economic Development 144 Figure 5.23. Map of PUB fiber in Brownsville MPC TEXAS (www.mpctexas.com) Multimedia Production Center Brownsville, Texas Know-how Capital Talent Infrastructure Research Developers Self-Financed Programmers User & Sales Internet Marketing By seeking the talent they need, overcoming infrastructure challenges, and serving extremely high quality websites, MPC TEXAS is able to compete and grow in the Rio Grande Valley. David Watkins founded Multimedia Production Center in 1989. He believes that his company, with 50 clients, is the number one website developer in the Valley in terms of artistic quality and speed. “We were project driven at first. Building our portfolio was the priority -- now we have more clients than I would have Una Region -- Un Futuro
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