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The following resources provide a significant source of information supporting open access networks and Transit Exchanges. Canadian Municipal Broadband InitiativesGovernment of Canada. “Report of the National
Broadband Taskforce, The New National Dream: Networking the Nation For
Broadband Access”, The City of Ottawa views broadband connectivity as
an integral part of the City’s infrastructure and must be planned in the
same way we have planned power and gas delivery and other essential
services in both the urban and rural areas of Ottawa. Waterloo Region (this is very close to the Okanagan
context) South Dundas is unique in that it stands as one of
first communities that have been able to measure the economic benefit
that it is receiving from its investment in broadband services. FibreTech is a multi million-dollar investment in
telecommunications for Waterloo Region by Cambridge-North Dumfries
Hydro, Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro and Waterloo North Hydro. FibreTech’s
broadband communications network serves clients throughout all of
Waterloo Region. ConnectKW has
a network of community Internet access sites throughout
Kitchener-Waterloo operated by a group of committed organizations. The
vulnerable groups they hope to help access the Internet include (but are
not limited to) Aboriginals, youth, seniors,
new Canadians, persons with disabilities, the unemployed and working
poor, people with low literacy levels and individuals suffering from
serious diseases. The Communities of Eastern
Ontario Network, otherwise known as CEONET, works from a small office
located in rural Glengarry. It was incorporated in March 2000 as a
not-for-profit organization to promote Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) in the region. Hqnet Community Broadband Network is a not-for-profit corporation and community owned consortium of information technology users in Hastings County, Prince Edward County, and the Quinte and Lakeshore region of Eastern Ontario (Canada). Our vision for the Hastings-Quinte region is to become a "smart community". Our membership represents municipal government, educational and health care institutions, industry, and commerce. http://www.hqnet.on.ca/ The Peel Region fibre optic
network, labelled the Public Sector Network (PSN), involves the effort
of the four municipal agencies operating within the Region of Peel
(Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon and the Region of Peel). Through years
of planning and collaboration, a communications infrastructure capable
of providing cost effective, high-speed telecommunications has been
developed. Newfoundland’s perspective
– good links to examples of cities that have implemented low-cost access
to wireless community broadband. The Columbia Basin Trust (CBT)
and Columbia Mountain Open Network (CMON) are pleased to announce the
CBT Community Broadband Planning Program. The $300,000, two-year program
provides grants to communities and regional groups working with CMON on
the development of business plans for broadband network development
within the Columbia Basin. BC Municipal Broadband InitiativesShongrunden, Ron. School District
67’s Approach to Technology Convergence: “Total Convergence:
Introductory Overview”, The City of Revelstoke.
2005.”Fiber Optics Feasibility Study Overview”, Kamloops Community Network: City of Penticton Fibre Optic
Project: Norton, Stephen. May 10, 2004.
The City of Victoria: Information Technology Strategic Plan: 2004-2009.
The Columbia Mountain Open
Network is a not-for-profit corporation and is registered as a Non-dominant
Carrier with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC). CMON will find creative ways to work with
infrastructure providers, communities, funding sources, and service
providers. In areas where CMON cannot raise sufficient private
enterprise interest in building or participating in the building of
open-access infrastructure, CMON will build it. If a service provider
cannot be found to provide a specific service at an affordable price,
CMON will provide it. The BC Chapter of the Municipal Information Systems
Association (MISA) was formed in April of 1994. The founding members
were the Management U.S. Municipal Broadband Success StoriesThis article describes the City of Windom’s
broadband initiative, whom Windom selected as vendor partners, issues
faced and results achieved. Included is first-hand advice from city
leaders on what other cities should consider before starting their own
broadband projects. Affordable broadband is unleashing a wave of
Knowledge Economy entrepreneurial zeal powered by new services like
Voice over IP (VoIP) that give businesses the opportunity to cut costs
while doing a better job of taking care of customers. Partnerships between the public and private sectors
to achieve a common goal are effective and efficient. In fact, Intel is
collaborating with numerous municipalities in “Digital Cities”
initiatives across the country. This article describes the Open Service Provider
Networks™ model. The community-owned OSPNs can bring complete
availability of true broadband connections, service provider
independence, economic infusion, and life-enhancing services to
residents and businesses. This article describes Fort Wayne, Indiana’s
Fibre-To-The-Home initiative. It was the first city in the Midwest to be
selected for Verizon’s fibre to the premise (FTTP) technology. This article takes a hard look at the ten most
common myths that the telephone and cable companies tell about municipal
broadband and shows that these canards are no more valid today than they
were a century ago. There are six leading groups of broad-band access
technologies, with many specific flavors of each available: HFC (Hybrid
Fibre Coax), DSL (Digital Subscriber Line), FTTH (Fibre to the Home),
Wireless BPL (Broadband over Powerline), and Satellite. The city of Philadelphia has selected EarthLink to
deploy a citywide wireless broadband network, the largest municipal
Wi-Fi network in the U.S., the company announced Tuesday. Under the
terms of the EarthLink proposal, no city or taxpayer dollars will be
used to fund the project. EarthLink will finance, build and manage the
wireless network, and share revenue with the city's Wireless
Philadelphia initiative. The City of San Francisco has received more than 24
separate proposals to provide free, wireless Internet services citywide
from vendors including Web search company Google Inc. San Francisco
Mayor Gavin Newsom said his call for free wireless access for all San
Franciscans could be satisfied by a city-owned wireless company, some
form of public-private partnership or by completely contracting to
private parties. The city of Fredericton continues
expanding its free wireless Internet access. They are close to 60 per
cent done according to Don Fitzgerald, executive director of economic
development for the New Brunswick capital city. In libraries, community
centres, along downtown sidewalks and even on boats docked along the
Saint John River that bisects the city, anyone with a suitably equipped
notebook or handheld computer can connect to the Internet free of
charge. Lees, Dr. Francis. Autumn 2005. “NYSERNet
News-Newsletters: American Museum of Natural History”, Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History had the honour of being the first independent Museum to join the Internet 2 community. As a research institution with over 200 scientists, it represents a base of intellectual activity that extends far beyond exhibits of poisonous frogs, historic panoramas of animals in their natural habitats, or the most advanced planetarium. Some of the 32 million objects in the permanent collection are not just viewed by several million people a year, but studied intensely by researchers around the globe. The Catholic Health System in Buffalo, NY has also implemented a fibretech network. Links: http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2005/04/11/daily41.html and http://www.fibertech.com/pressArchive.cfm?ID=58 The fibre optic upgrade links 40 sites with a $1.5 million fibre optic computer network. The new network will enable additional healthcare applications, including advanced digital imaging, and will bring redundancy to the data, communications, voice and video systems. CANARIE Articles and LinksDescription of the CA*net 4 advanced research
networks partnerships in every province that connects universities,
government labs, private research labs, hospitals, schools and cultural
centres to each other and to international peer networks. This article provides
examples of an Economic Development Grid initiative, a Healthcare
Collaborative Grid, a Public Information Grid and a K-12 Outreach Grid. Subscribe to the CA*net 4 News mailing list (news@canarie.ca), a general information list on news and issues related to optical Internet networking and next generation Internet activities around the world. There is a focus on CANARIE's national optical Internet projects, such as CA*net 4 and Gigabit Internet to the School and Home. http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/list.html Links to examples of municipal fibre builds and companies that build customer owned and condominium fibre infrastructure in Canada and the US. http://www.sunesys.com/faq/41.html Government of British Columbia IT/IM Standards and LinksGovernment of B.C. April 15, 2005. “Premier’s Technology Council: 7th Report”, http://www.gov.bc.ca/bcgov/content/docs/@2Ig53_0YQtuW/7th_report_final.pdf A Network BC Digital Divide presentation. http://www.network.gov.bc.ca/docs/okanagan_proj_jun_3.pdf The site for the BC Government’s corporate standards for the creation, use and management of information and information technology. http://www.cio.gov.bc.ca/prgs/Standards.htm Memoranda that are issued by the CIO to establish strategic directions for government's information and communications technology resources or to further clarify existing core policy. http://www.cio.gov.bc.ca/prgs/memo.htm Information on the TELUS/BC broadband partnership to connect 151 remote communities in BC. http://www.network.gov.bc.ca Transit ExchangesThe Fibre Community Information page is the place to go for information on FTTH and its benefits. Whether you are a local leader, communications service provider, network operator, or infrastructure provider, turn here for information on building the fastest communications network in the world.http://www.ftthcouncil.org/ Packet Clearing House is a non-profit research institute that supports operations and empirical analysis in the areas of Internet traffic exchange, routing economics, and global network development. http://www.pch.net/ This is Virginia Polytech’s e-Corridors Program. Its mission is to create competitive advantage by facilitating the deployment of advanced network infrastructure and applications leveraging inter-regional connectivity for communities. http://www.ecorridors.vt.edu/ The High Tech Broadband Coalition (“HTBC”) is an industry alliance formed by the leading trade associations of the computer, telecommunications equipment, semiconductor, consumer electronic, software, and manufacturing sectors in the United States. HTBC is been a strong proponent of ubiquitous broadband deployment. http://www.ecorridors.vt.edu/news/topic/?article_id=129&cat_id=5&cat_type=topic Good articles on the value of carrier neutral exchange points and community fibre networks. Of particular note is the CityLink service in Wellington New Zealand. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8265 An article in Lightreading shows that carrier neutral exchange points have considerable more advantage than the simple exchange and peering of IP traffic. They are also natural locations for direct VoIP peering and other higher level interconnectivity. VOIP Peering: Incumbent Killer? http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=75881 VOIP and Telco IssuesPeter J. Howe. August 1, 2005. “Start-up Slashes Cost of International Wireless”, http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/ In just one year, computer users around the world have downloaded 140 million copies of the Skype program that lets them make free phone calls over the Internet to other Skype users. Now a Kendall Square start-up is pushing Skype into a new frontier: cellphones. Through a $10-a-year software rental that goes on sale today, iSkoot promises to let people make international calls to other Skype users for nothing more than the price of local air time for the link from their cellphones to their broadband-connected home computers. Turner, S. Derek. August 2005. “Broadband Reality Check: FCC Ignores America’s Digital Divide”, http://www.freepress.net/docs/broadband_report.pdf Articles on TelecommunicationsThe low cost of DWDM
and tools like CANARIE's UCLP will have a similar impact on the telecom
industry as the PC did on the mainframe computer industry. Not only will
it dramatically reduce costs but it will
enable a whole new world of applications. Optical technologies have become so cheap that enterprises are seeing big appeal, and they are increasingly building their own networks. In addition to being drawn to the affordability of the technology, the enterprises are being pushed toward new capacity with the expansion of VOIP and other IP applications in their own networks. Make no mistake about it: Telecom technologies are rapidly being commoditized, standardized, and packaged up neatly for enterprises. Pretty soon, every Fortune 500 company is going to be running its own VOIP and DWDM network - on a global scale. http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=81802&WT.svl=deptcol_1 Austin, Robert D. and Stephen P. Bradley. 2005. "The Broadband Explosion," in The Broadband Explosion: Leading Thinkers on the Promise of a Truly Interactive World, Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation: Harvard Business School Press. Globus software is an example of Grid technology that is available for commercial use. Their products increase a company's flexibility and speed by optimizing the use of existing IT resources. The market for Grid technology is expanding quickly around the globe—it's estimated to reach at least $5 billion in 2008. For more information about Univa: http://www.univa.com/about/index.shtml . Nuechterlein, Jonathan and Philip Weiser. 2005. Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age, MIT Press. First Mile US: Big Broadband Everywhere, “Community Planning Toolkit”, http://www.firstmile.us/kit/com_plan.php. This site has a guide with a self-assessment tool designed to help determine the readiness of a town, city, county or region to join the one-gigabit broadband world. It offers a clear snapshot of where different communities fall along a continuum of readiness. The guide is most useful if used collaboratively by a coalition of community members concerned about the area’s technological and economic development. Corporation For Network Intiatives in California. “On The Road To Gigabit Broadband: Are We There Yet? A Self-Assessment Guide For Communities”, http://www.cenic.org/guide/. Cohill, Andrew Michael. 2005. “Nine Questions For Communities”, http://www.designnine.com/library/docs/nine_questions_2005.pdf. This is an educational article that provides answers to questions about why communities should proceed with developing broadband initiatives. Wallsten, Scott. June 2005.
“Broadband Penetration: An Empirical Analysis of State and Federal
Policies”, The private sector remains the best vehicle for deployment of broadband with facilities based competition. The government's only role should be to ensure a competitive, level playing field and funding research in the next generation of technologies and their applications. Other Jurisdictions:In partnership with the government of Alberta, Bell and Axia have constructed and connected 12,000 kilometres of fibre and wireless technology to make broadband service available in rural SuperNet communities. ISPs can now buy bandwidth at reasonable, uniform rates across the province. http://www.albertasupernet.ca/ The European Commission has decided that, the public co-funding of an open broadband infrastructure in Limousin, France constitutes compensation for the provision of a Service of General Economic Interest and is not state aid. The project has a total budget of €85 million and will be co-financed by EU funds The scheme will enable telecom operators to provide broadband services to residential users, businesses and public authorities on a transparent and non-discriminatory basis. http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21298534http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/530&format
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