[1st-mile-nm] Sandoval County Broadband Project

Fri Feb 8 21:12:37 PST 2008

Great point Art being as Lamdarail is huge high speed multi gigabit 
Internet 2 Fiber which terminates at UNM via 505 Marquet with a million 
dollar gigapop

I went to UNM CIRT who controls Lamdarail and talked to William L Atkins 
CIO CIRT/UNM / Moira Gerety Director CIRT/UNM  / Gary Bauerschmidt 
Associate Director/ CIRT/UNM, Project Head Lambdarail UNM/CIRT. They all 
denied point blank there was any possibility of this Sandoval system 
connecting to Lmdr ( Unless you count AOL eventually talks through a 
backbone pipe  and I am eventually related to Yogi Bear and the Queen of 
England through 50 iterations) and thought it hilarious that any fool 
could conceive you could just connect Kilobit 802.11 to multi gigabit 
fiber. ( yes I have all this in writing ) The true story is that Terry 
Yates now sadly deceased was offered a $250K donation to UNM  by the 
Sandoval team ( who also floated bogus invoices for non existent 
services to UNM ) to put out a bogus press release mentioning how 
Sandoval would benefit from high speed connectivity and slip in the 
words Internet 2 and Lambdarail ( Knowing it would never happen ).  This 
was to set up the state of NM about this wonderful idea and dully enough 
Governor Bill cut them another $1m dollar check on the strength of a 
phone call and a blurb piece in the Journal.

As Moira is now feeding from the same trough in Sandoval she should be 
put on the spot with this hypocrisy, then again the bogus physics that 
occur in Sandoval is beyond belief.

I think the word Broadband in this case describes some of the la femmes 
involved and I have had several emails listing the true word as Broadbandits

( : ( : pete

Peter Baston

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Art St. George wrote:
> One of the major reasons given for the network was that it provided 
> access to National LambdaRail. How can this possible occur if the 
> signal is WiFi, which itself does not even qualify to be called broadband?
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> *Subject:* Re: [1st-mile-nm] Sandoval County Broadband Project
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> This is turning into a wonderful project
>
> Lets see, the target audience in Cuba and along 528  ( who's total 
> population is around 600 but only about 150 will get the signal which 
> will be wifi strength and less ) the county threw in $1.5m they will 
> throw in anther $1m more just for the signal ( Ill bet this figure 
> will go up ) , no one talks about the $1m the state put into the pot 
> making $3.5m that equates to spending $22,000 per user for a signal 
> with no applications attached, no email, no security, nada, no network 
> design , no application design, no usability exercise, no service cost 
> comparison, no voip. It certainly is cheap high speed snail speed 
> connectivity and really gives a new definition to the word cheap 
> government wise that is.  Netlogix should make a killing on this one
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> Richard Lowenberg wrote:
>> Forwarded message from subscriber Carroll Cagle:
>> ----
>>
>> Sandoval Revives Broadband Project
>>
>> Albuquerque Journal – West Side edition
>> Friday, February 8, 2008
>> By Rosalie Rayburn
>> Journal Staff Writer
>>
>>     Sandoval County Commission has breathed new life into its
>> problem-plagued countywide broadband project.
>>     Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved a six-month contract
>> with San Diego, Calif.-based Netlogix to provide project management
>> services to establish a backbone Internet link from the Sandoval County
>> Judicial Complex at Idalia and N.M. 528 to Cuba.
>>     The county will pay Netlogix $24,000 per month but reserves the right
>> to suspend payments up to two times in the event of an unforeseeable
>> delay, such as a delay in obtaining rights of way or other permits.
>>     The total project is estimated to cost $144,000. The money will come
>> from part of the $85 million incentive the county received for backing a
>> $16 billion Intel revenue bond.
>>     Netlogix will oversee management of the project. CH2MHill, an
>> international technology company, will be responsible for equipment
>> installation, under a separate contract, said Mike Good, Sandoval County's
>> IT director.
>>     County Manager Debbie Hays told the Journal she expects the CH2MHill
>> contract to be approved in about two weeks.
>>     Once the backbone project is completed, the next phase will be to
>> build a network to distribute services to customers, Good told the Journal
>> in an interview before the meeting.
>>     County staff have spent about two months scrutinizing the terms of the
>> contract with the help of an oversight committee composed of technology
>> experts.
>>     Committee member Moira Gerety, director of Computing Services at the
>> University of New Mexico, told the commissioners the time spent on
>> scrutiny will ensure there will be a complete record of the work and
>> invoices associated with the project.
>>     "We want to do it right," Gerety said.
>>     The Sandoval Broadband project originally began more than three years
>> ago.
>>     It was supposed to provide cheap high-speed wireless Internet service
>> to benefit schools, health care services and service providers throughout
>> the county.
>>     The county spent about $1.2 million but found the system didn't work.
>>     A year ago, the state auditor launched an investigation into the
>> project.
>>     The county is suing the company and individuals it initially hired for
>> the project.
>>     In May, the county approved a $20,000 contract with Netlogix to
>> conduct a survey to see what would be needed to create a working broadband
>> system.
>>     Netlogix, a national wireless consulting firm, has previously
>> estimated it would take about $950,000 to buy and install wireless
>> equipment to complete the network.
>>
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