[1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe CIP High Speed Internet Project

[Richard Lowenberg]

Following City Council approval on Feb. 26th, the City and  Cyber Mesa Telecom, Inc., a locally owned CLEC, last week signed a $1 million, four year agreement for deployment a fiber optic cable from the CentutyLink central telephone exchange in Santa Fe, to a long-haul fiber point-of-presence two miles away, with a co-location facility midway along the fiber route.    Upon completion, the City’s CIP High Speed Internet Project will offer dark fiber, Ethernet bandwidth, co-location space and ‘open access’ interconnections to all qualified providers, but will not offer retail finish services.   The project is intended to create a robust, competitive wholesale market for carriers and providers, and to serve as a platform for further commercial fiber and wireless build-outs in the future.

Additionally, as noted previously on this list, an MOU between the City and State of NM Department of IT will provide connected data transport capacity to the Albuquerque GigaPoP, thereby widening the range of wholesale options and further stimulating competition in Santa Fe.

RL

 

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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
1st-Mile Institute          www.1st-mile.org  
P. O.  Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM    87504
505-603-5200                 rl at 1st-mile.org
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