Submission + - Community-Owned Fiber Optic Network Needs Name
CleverMonkey writes: "I am a town representative to a newly created municipal group creating a new type of telco.
This group has formed to build and operate a FTTH network, and provide both triple-play services as well as access to other providers, to over 20 mostly rural towns in East-Central Vermont. The project is novel because of the size of the network (a cable pass down EVERY road within perhaps 600 square miles), the low-density of the area served, and the public-ownership/private-financing model which is being used. Some of the towns included in this group currently have nothing beyond 14.4 dial-up on a good day, and if they are not on the North side of the ridge they might have satellite television rather than 2 channels by broadcast. [For more information please see: http://www.ecfiber.net/
This effort began as a grassroots effort in a couple towns and the name that they chose was 'ECFiber', shorthand for East-Central Fiber, or sometimes the East-Central Vermont Community Network, something like that. We hope that this network will grow beyond this corner of the state, and we would like a name which is not so tied to the particular region, that will be both descriptive and flexible. Also, we think that the community-ownership is a critical piece — and reminding people of that within the name is probably a good idea.
What would you call a community-owned, cutting-edge, G-PON fiber-optic network covering every remote corner of two-dozen contiguous towns?"
This group has formed to build and operate a FTTH network, and provide both triple-play services as well as access to other providers, to over 20 mostly rural towns in East-Central Vermont. The project is novel because of the size of the network (a cable pass down EVERY road within perhaps 600 square miles), the low-density of the area served, and the public-ownership/private-financing model which is being used. Some of the towns included in this group currently have nothing beyond 14.4 dial-up on a good day, and if they are not on the North side of the ridge they might have satellite television rather than 2 channels by broadcast. [For more information please see: http://www.ecfiber.net/
This effort began as a grassroots effort in a couple towns and the name that they chose was 'ECFiber', shorthand for East-Central Fiber, or sometimes the East-Central Vermont Community Network, something like that. We hope that this network will grow beyond this corner of the state, and we would like a name which is not so tied to the particular region, that will be both descriptive and flexible. Also, we think that the community-ownership is a critical piece — and reminding people of that within the name is probably a good idea.
What would you call a community-owned, cutting-edge, G-PON fiber-optic network covering every remote corner of two-dozen contiguous towns?"
