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communities.
The network, called Gigabit Seattle, includes three
pieces: fiber directly to the home and business in twelve
demonstration neighborhoods, dedicated gigabit broad-
band wireless connections to multifamily housing and
offices across Seattle, and next generation mobile wireless
internet.
1.
Fiber to the home and business: Gigabit Seattle plans
to build out a fiber-to-the-home/fiber-to-the-business
(FTTH/FTTB) network to more than 50,000 households
and businesses in 12 demonstration neighborhoods,
connected together with the excess capacity that Giga-
bit Seattle will lease from the city’s own fiber network.
Gigabit Seattle’s technology intends to offer gigabit
speeds that are up to 1,000 times faster than the typical
high-speed connection.
2.
Dedicated gigabit to multifamily housing and offices:
To provide initial coverage beyond the 12 demonstra-
tion neighborhoods, Gigabit Seattle intends to build a
dedicated gigabit broadband wireless umbrella to cover
Seattle, providing point-to-point radio access up to one
gigabit per second. This will be achieved by placing
fiber transmitters on top of 38 buildings across Seattle.
These transmitters can beam fiber internet to multifam-
ily housing and offices across Seattle, even those out-
side the twelve demonstration neighborhoods, as long
as they are in a line of sight. Internet service would be
delivered to individual units within a building through
existing wiring. This wireless coverage can provide
network and internet services to customers that do not
have immediate access to fiber in the city.
3.
Next generation mobile wireless internet: Gigabit
Seattle will provide next generation wireless cloud
services in its 12 neighborhoods to provide customers
with mobile access. The fiber network, gigabit dedi-
cated wireless connections, and wireless cloud services
neighborhoods will together provide broadband wired
and wireless network and internet services, giving
Seattle customers new choices.
This is the first demonstration project of Gigabit
Squared’s Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program, which
will bring other projects like this to promote gigabit net-
work innovation in six selected university communities
across the country. The $200 million broadband program
was developed in partnership with the University Commu-
nity Next Generation Innovation Project.
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