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Groundbreaking for the Rural Nebraska Healthcare Network took place in 2010. company gambled that the network would indeed be constructed and began to deploy FTTH infrastructure in population centers within its service territory. The company has not been able to build a business case for deploying FTTH outside population centers, but Moline estimates that when ALLO’s FTTH deployments are completed, about 65,000 panhandle residents will have access to high-speed broadband as well as advanced video services based on Microsoft Mediaroom. ALLO’s regional fiber network will enable the company to use a single video headend for all the communities it serves. “We need to be able to push 2 Gbps between towns,” Moline explains. a MoDel To replICaTe? The unique partnership underlying the RNHN is a “win-win for western Nebraska,” according to Kent Van Meter, vice president of Fiberutilities Group, the engineering company that designed the RNHN fiber network and conducted a mIddle-mIle neTWoRks Bob Sommerfeld, president of G4S,spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony. network feasibility study as part of the process of helping the RNHN with its 100-page grant application. “They’re not only getting a robust medical network; they’re also getting new commercial telecom products.” Will other network operators and health care organizations undertake similar projects in other parts of the country? Russo says Zayo has bid on some other health care projects but sometimes loses out to network operators or grassroots organizations that already have some network facilities in the area Competitively priced middle-mile connectivity can help justify the cost of FTTH deployments in areas where such deployments previously would not have been economically feasible. 58 | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | www.broadbandcommunities.com | <strong>March</strong>/april 2012 involved. He adds that Zayo’s involvement in the RNHN was attractive, in large part, because of the panhandle’s proximity to Zayo’s Denver network, hinting that such a partnership might not be attractive in some other markets. Horan was more optimistic, noting that G4S is already working on a project in another state involving a partnership between a health care organization and a network operator. The health care organization won a grant to cover part of the cost of building a network to support a health information exchange, and the network operator also will cover some of the construction costs. As with RNHN, the network operator will be able to use part of the network commercially – and that network also is expected to provide health care and economic benefits to the local community. Whether the sort of partnership that occurred between the RNHN and Zayo is the start of a trend or a onetime anomaly is still unclear. But if the new project in which G4S is involved is equally successful, perhaps the two deployments will serve as a model for how to make future health care networks more viable and to extend their benefits beyond the health care realm. v
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