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targeted area. (A postcard survey of Averett showed about 85 percent were interested in obtaining service.) A second, similarly sized neighborhood will also be selected. nDanville is an open-access network on which third-party providers may offer telecommunications, entertainment, and Internet services. At the time BBP went to press, the Danville City Council had scheduled a vote but had not yet voted on the pilot project. The Danville Utility Commission has already recommended proceeding with the project, which would be funded from existing nDanville revenues. With its financing plans well under way, the 23-town EC Fiber consortium in Vermont has decided to proceed with a pilot project. “We have identified several unserved areas that will help to prove our concept,” says project director Tim Nulty. “Engineering crews started the preconstruction process the morning after the vote [by the governing board]. We’re very excited to get to work. This has been a long time coming.” “Delivering cost-effective, high-quality, reliable broadband to rural America is a challenge,” says Ron Cassel, coordinator of the buildout. “We decided that we needed an innovative approach to that challenge. We have built a successful model in our labs, but there is no better test than a real-life deployment. That’s when the rubber hits the road. We now have a solid rollout plan in place and hope to be installing our first customers in a few months!” The pilot project will provide a solid foundation for the capital lease used to build out the rest of the network, which will provide 100 percent coverage in 23 towns in east-central Vermont. Although the intent of the pilot project is to prove that the larger project is viable, Nulty says, “<strong>It</strong> will be able to stand on its own if we don’t raise another dime of capital.” The pilot project will be financed with privately raised funds. WiredWest, a project inspired by EC Fiber, has been launched by a consortium of 47 towns in western Massachusetts that want to build an FTTH network. In June, the towns took official action to set the project in motion. Dr. Andrew Cohill of consulting firm Design Nine is now working with 800.882.7950 www.glds.com Digital • VOD • VoIP Data • Hotel PPV Cable Billing Billing & Provisioning Over 300 Satisfied Operators Lowest Total Cost Solutions FTTH, Voice, Video & Data Friendly, Expert Support August/September 2010 | www.broadbandproperties.com | BROADBAND PROPERTIES | 35
the WiredWest committee on its governance, business model, financing, needs assessment, market survey and network planning, financed by a grant from the Massachusetts <strong>Broadband</strong> Institute. In addition, the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission and the Franklin County Council of Governments are providing grants for preparatory legal work and GIS mapping. Eight Minnesota cities – seven in Sibley County plus the nearby city of Fairfax – have received grants from county governments and the Blandin Foundation to perform a feasibility study for an FTTH network. According to local press reports, the feasibility study will be carried out by CCG Consulting. Residents of Opelika, Ala., voted in a referendum to approve building a community FTTH network throughout the city. According to the city’s website, “For many years now … numerous complaints were received from citizens about the high prices and poor service they were receiving, while others have complained that they can’t get any cable service in their neighborhoods at all. After years of trying to get other cable/Internet providers to come into Opelika and give Charter Communications competition – to no avail – we decided that the best way to give our citizens competitive services was A sign on the city’s website thanks voters for their support. to offer competition ourselves.” The city plans to deliver phone, Internet and video services over fiber, possibly in partnership with cable provider Knology. The municipal electric utility will use the network for smart-grid applications. Cable Companies Cable Companies Turn to Fiber Trinity Communications, a cable operator based in South Pittsburgh, Tenn., launched triple-play services over fiber in Marion and Sequatchie County, Tenn., using ARRIS FTTMax RFoG equipment. The major components include ARRIS CORWave II multiwavelength forward transmitters, FTTMax RFoG optical network units (ONUs) at the customer premises and the TransMax RFoG repeater for optical amplification of RFoG wavelengths. When completed, the deployment will offer triple-play services to approximately 3,000 homes and businesses. RFoG, which combines RF and PON technologies, enables cable operators to use their existing headend infrastructure, current provisioning systems and CPE devices. “We selected the AR- RIS CORWave and RFoG solutions because of their proven reliability and to meet our capital and operational budgetary needs,” says James Gee, president of Trinity Communications. “In our system, population density is low and spread out, so the RFoG cost model and return on investment is very attractive to us. Once the backbone is in place, we can simply drop a fiber to the residential or small-business customer, install the RFoG ONU and they’re set.” In a competitive overbuild, cable company Merrimac Communications is installing fiber to the home in Prairie du Sac, Wisc. According to local press, the company expects to offer triple-play services to every home in the village by December and to add another 350 customers by the end of the year. Other deployers Connexion Partners With KDM Development Network operator Connexion Technologies announced a partnership with KDM Development, which manages 47 manufactured-home communities with 7,500 rental sites. Connexion will create a customized network solution for the delivery of television, high-speed Internet, and telephone for these communities’ residents. “Our relationship with Connexion Technologies has allowed us to simplify telecommunications arrangements,” says Ken Burnham, founder of KDM. “We also look forward to offering enhanced services from Connexion Technologies’ service providers.” Connexion recently placed a volume order for home gateway products from Swedish provider Tilgin – apparently Tilgin’s first major sale of the gateways in the U.S. market. According to Tilgin, 36 | BROADBAND PROPERTIES | www.broadbandproperties.com | August/September 2010
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