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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Scott DeGarmo PUBLISHER Nancy McCain nancym@bbcmag.com CORPORATE EDITOR, BBP LLC Steven S. Ross steve@bbcmag.com EDITOR Masha Zager masha@bbcmag.com ADVERTISING SALES Irene G. Prescott irene@bbcmag.com MARkETING SPECIALIST Meredith Terrall meredith@bbcmag.com DESIGN & PRODUCTION Karry Thomas CONTRIBUTORS Joe Bousquin David Daugherty, Korcett Holdings Inc. Richard Holtz, InfiniSys W. James MacNaughton, Esq. Henry Pye, RealPage Bryan Rader, Bandwidth Consulting LLC Robert L. Vogelsang, Broadband Communities 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 BROADBAND PROPERTIES LLC 1909 Avenue G Rosenberg, Tx 77471 281.342.9655, Fax 281.342.1158 Www.broadbandcommunities.com Broadband Communities (ISSN 0745-8711) (USPS 679- 050) (Publication Mail Agreement #1271091) is published 7 times a year at a rate of $24 per year by Broadband Properties LLC, 1909 Avenue G, Rosenberg, TX 77471. Periodical postage paid at Rosenberg, TX, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to Broadband Communities, PO Box 303, Congers, NY 10920-9852. CANADA POST: Publications Mail Agreement #40612608. Canada Returns to be sent to Bleuchip International, PO Box 25542, London, ON N6C 6B2. Copyright © 2012 Broadband Properties LLC. All rights reserved. Editor’s Note Getting Creative With Broadband One reward of editing a magazine is being able to call attention to great new ideas. This issue is exceptionally rewarding. Maybe it’s the arrival of spring, but I’m seeing shoots of creativity burgeoning everywhere. This issue introduces the first installment of a new feature, Lessons From the Field. It’s a series of short takes that showcase the creative solutions smaller companies have developed to address broadband deployment challenges, both technical and financial. Deployers are working with vendors and consultants to deliver the benefits of high-speed broadband in ways tailored to their particular areas. Unlike larger telecom operators, which can have equipment and software designed to order and can finance customized marketing campaigns, smaller companies depend largely on off-the-shelf products and services. Creativity for them lies in devising new combinations and applications of materials already at hand. Even a provider in unusual circumstances – one company featured in Lessons From the Field delivers fiber-based broadband to a ski resort at the top of the Sierra Nevada – may devise a solution that proves useful to others. Given that more than 800 companies now deploy fiber to the premises, mostly on a small scale, and many more deploy other technologies for advanced broadband, a good solution developed by one company is almost bound to find another application somewhere else. More exaMples The creative solutions detailed in this issue of BroadBand Communities don’t appear only in Lessons From the Field. In the Owners Corner column, Henry 2 | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | www.broadbandcommunities.com | March/april 2012 Pye describes how he and others came up with a cost-effective way to deploy managed Ethernet solutions in cottagestyle student housing communities. Joan Engebretson reveals how creative financing (I mean that in a good way) allowed the Rural Nebraska Healthcare Network to improve health care in the Nebraska panhandle region and bring high-speed broadband services to businesses. In the Property of the Month feature, the aptly named consulting firm Innovative I.T. discusses how it designed stateof-the-art broadband infrastructure for an affordable housing community – enabling the developer, Abode Communities, to not only bridge the digital divide but also win a Platinum LEED rating. The MDU Showcase describes how Elauwit Networks, a private cable operator in Seattle, worked with 3M to run fiber almost invisibly through the hallways and apartments of a luxury high-rise. And in the Broadband Apps section, Jack Olson of Viamedia offers ideas for small FTTH providers that want to use their fiber to deliver advanced video services but are daunted by the economics of a business that seems tilted in favor of the big guns. You’ll find plenty more examples of deployer imagination throughout this issue – as well as a 13-page list of new product offerings that should inspire network builders to new heights of inventiveness. Happy spring! masha@bbcmag.com.
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