Carrier-Grade Fiber in Centennial, Colorado Community Broadband Bits Podcast 222

Published: Oct. 4, 2016, 4:38 p.m.

b'Located in the Denver metro region and shaped like a barbell, Centennial has effectively used dig once policies to build conduit and fiber assets that have attracted Ting to the community. Tim Scott is the Director of Fiber Infrastructure for the city and joins us on Community Broadband [no-glossary]Bits[/no-glossary] podcast episode 222.\\n\\nCentennial took advantage of a project installing fiber for Intelligent Transportation Signaling. But just putting in more fiber was not sufficient to establish a carrier-grade network that ISPs would want to use. Tim explains what they had to do to attract ISP interest.\\n\\nCentennial\'s shape is very conducive to their strategy (which may be a tautology - they chose that strategy because it works for them). At any rate, their arterial corridors run quite close to the majority of premises and therefore a well-designed fiber backbone network is more attractive in that community than others. \\n\\nRead the transcript of the show here.\\n\\nWe want your feedback and suggestions for the show-please e-mail us or leave a comment below.\\n\\nThis show is 29 minutes long and can be played below on this page or via iTunes or via the tool of your choice using this feed. \\n\\nYou can download this mp3 file directly from here. Listen to other episodes here or view all episodes in our index.\\n\\nThanks to mojo monkeys for the music, licensed using Creative Commons. The song is "Bodacious."'