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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Scott DeGarmo
PUBLISHER
Nancy McCain
nancym@broadbandproperties.com
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Steven S. Ross
steve@broadbandproperties.com
Deputy Editor
Masha Zager
ADVERTISING SALES
Irene G. Prescott
irene@broadbandproperties.com
DESIGN & PRODUCTION
Karry Thomas
COLUMNISTS
Joe Bousquin
Bill Burhop, IMCC
Orrin Charm, InfiniSys
Amy Cravens, Cahners In-Stat.
Larry Kessler, InteliCable
W. James MacNaughton, Esq.
Dave McClure, USIIA
Bryan Rader, MediaWorks
Jimmy Schaffler, The Carmel Group
Robert L. Vogelsang, Broadband Properties Magazine
Broadband Properties LLC
PRESIDENT & CEO
Scott DeGarmo
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Himi Kittner
VICE PRESIDENT,
BUSINESS & OPERATIONS
Nancy McCain
Audience Development/Digital Strategies
Norman E. Dolph
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Robert L. Vogelsang
VICE CHAIRMAN
The Hon. Hilda Gay Legg
BUSINESS & EDITORIAL OFFICE
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president’s letter
At a Pivotal Moment,
Digital Momentum
Stay tuned-in to BBP Online for
hot new stuff
Our Summit makes April a pivotal
month for us, so here’s a look
ahead. Our robust print product
is a statement of our commitment to
excellence. In the year to come, we will
enhance the value of our print magazine
and also expand our digital publication
and other online offerings.
We’ve built a strong base for expansion
into the digital realm. Subscriptions to
our digital issue are growing daily. Qualified
U.S. subscribers can receive for free
the print issue, the digital issue, or both.
International subscribers get the digital
issue for free. International coverage is
a key part of our franchise. That’s obviously
true in this issue, from Tasmania to
the futuristic city-state that is putting in
1 Gbps for all residences. (Puzzled? Read
the issue carefully – or, do a quick search
in our digital publication.)
This issue contains our third annual
FTTH Primer, sponsored by the FTTH
Council, and also available on our Web
site, along with a Spanish version and
an English-language European version.
Both are available by clicking the BBP
Online link on www.bbpmag.com.
On BBP Online, you’ll find each issue
of the past year in a clickable, digital
version. You can search the issues individually
or do a global search of all the
issues together. You can click on the links
throughout the editorial and advertising
pages and easily e-mail links to individual
pages or to the entire issue.
All stories in each issue are accessible
in at least three ways in addition to the
print product: They are on our home
page, where they are posted in PDF form
both as individual stories and as the complete
issue, and they are in the digital issue
on BBP Online.
Two features launched in the last year
are leading indicators of our future evolution:
the Property of the Month and the
Municipal FTTH Deployment Snapshot.
What’s different about the way they are
presented? Well, first a little background
on the features themselves. At last year’s
Summit, we saw strong interest from
those involved in municipal deployments
for anatomies of individual projects as
well as an ongoing compilation of comparable
information on different projects.
We also saw a similar need for focused
profiles of real estate deployments.
Now, what’s subtly different about
these two features is that they are also
provided in HTML format on our Web
site about the time we go to press with
the magazine, so they are not merely
magazine pieces converted to an online
format, but articles getting expressed in
both media simultaneously.
These features and others we’ll be doing
create opportunities for providing
information where both qualitative and
quantitative content can be presented in
ways that enable easy comparisons. Our
programmers and designers are working
on how best to serve up this information
so that you will be able to look over a
year’s worth of articles and quickly extract
the information you want.
Unlike traditional news stories, which
diminish in value as time goes by, this approach
will create a cumulative effect that
will provide you with more value. For the
Property and Municipal features, you’ll
be able to compare the size of teams used
in different deployments, or the miles of
fiber, or the business models and partnerships
employed – and of course, the
products and vendors chosen.
You’ll also currently find on BBP Online
our interactive database of FTTH
deployments, a feature we’ll be expanding
in the weeks ahead with charts,
graphs and tables linked to the data so
they update themselves in real time.
www.bbpmag.com
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