[GRLUG] LUSFiber

[Bob Kline]

The economic benefits I know of
are anecdotal, but I can provide
those interested with the e-mail
address of a person in the area
that is familiar with the project,
has the service,  a hard IT background,
and lives and works in the area.  I'm
sure that what he doesn't know off
hand he can provide pointers to.

There is a company website: http://lusfiber.com/,
and LUSFiber lists key people that could be
contacted.

That I know of,  the system, which is
symmetrical by the way - e.g., 50 Mbps
up, and 50 Mbps down -  is now being
used by movie people to access a
supercomputer center.  And businesses
in general can get the 100 Mbps service.

I have to believe that something like this
would be of interest to the "miracle mile"
of medical facilities in GR.  I suspect that
GR or Lansing would be the key candidates
in MI now, most other cities being either
too small, or economic basket cases.

http://multi.media.illinois.edu/ng/J480fall2009/broadbandinternet/InternetAccess/Example_of_a_fiber_network.html

One of the references on the LUSFiber
website.  The ability to link businesses,
public facilities, like libraries, and
individuals together at high rates
is likely beneficial, but it's apparently
hard in general to make a specific measure
of these things.  Greenspan once
commented that the Internet was
clearly having a positive impact on
business, but he didn't know how to
measure it.   A specific case, a person
said that before the Internet it was
difficult to get a bid or two on steel for
a bridge his business wanted to build.
Today it's routine to get a dozen bids.
That doesn't argue for speed per se,
but a high quality system is pretty
clearly enabling technology.


    -- Bob




On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:00 PM, AJ <aj.wasi at gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be interesting to see if such a push for local fiber could be done
> in Grand Rapids or anywhere else in Michigan.  Bob, you mentioned economic
> benefits, were there any hard numbers for the economic increases?
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <
> awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > Anyway, it's not clear whether other
>> > towns could duplicate this achievement.
>> > GR  could not even bring off a 1.5 Mbps
>> > WiFi system.
>>
>> Many issues were involved in that [and replicated in many other places]
>> failure.  But WiFi was available for 2009 Art Prize, and will be
>> available for 2010 Art Prize.
>>
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