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

[John Brown]

This is a waste of tax payer money.

I will not cost a million dollars to build two miles of fiber.

I just built 1 mile of fiber in downtown ABQ and it cost us less than $100,000

I have a 7 mile project in final stages of client approval and that is
only $600,000.

Those numbers include everything to light up the fiber and start
serving customers.

Both of the above projects have at least 144 strand fiber cable, and a
16 channel CWDM system.
A 40 channel DWDM system would add a small cost and not double the cost.

Also, the Abq "GigaPop" relied heavily on the now DEFUNCT National Lambda Rail.
Internet 2 (I2) has a strict policy of not allowing commercial traffic.

It will also be interesting to see if litigation comes of this deal
because now the State via this MOU will be providing transport
services and thus competing against any number of existing private
sector companies.  I'm reliably informed that there is a case ready to
be filed against the City and the State....

Will the state be paying USF fees to the Federal Gov for its transport
services ??
If not, then won't this create an economic disadvantage for existing providers.


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> wrote:
> 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.
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> RL
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