[Davisgig] Davisgig Digest, Vol 4, Issue 8

Christine Crawford c2crawford at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 12:23:36 PST 2015 

I chatted with Michael Ort from Praxis after an event last week at Hacker
Lab and he indicated that their master plan includes coming through Yolo
County along 505.

Another good case study of a smaller fiber build to look at is Spiral
Communications in Nevada City.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:00 PM, <davisgig-request at list.omsoft.com> wrote:

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>    1. CBC California Broadband Cooperative | Digital 395        Middle
>       Mile Project (Douglas A. Walter)
>    2. Davis City Council Meeting (Larry Dieterich)
>    3. Council Meeting video archive (Steve McMahon)
>    4. Re: CBC California Broadband Cooperative | Digital 395 Middle
>       Mile Project (Robert Nickerson)
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> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 23:49:33 -0800
> From: "Douglas A. Walter" <dawalter at dcn.org>
> To: davisgig at list.omsoft.com
> Subject: [Davisgig] CBC California Broadband Cooperative | Digital 395
>         Middle Mile Project
> Message-ID: <FE74A748-2F82-4483-ADF7-9248604C26FB at dcn.org>
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> Hi folks. After a successful conclusion to the agenda item at the Council,
> I thought I'd pass along one of the items mentioned by Lucas Frerichs.
> Obviously, Digital 395 is covering a lot of rural ground, while DavisGig is
> mostly concerned with a suburb. It's still interesting to see how they've
> structured their project partnership:
> > As a public-private partnership among local and state agencies,
> organized labor and for-profit companies, [a cooperative] is the best
> organizational form that ensures representation by a wide range of
> interests in the Eastern Sierra. Praxis Associates, one of the key
> partners, has been designing and constructing fiber networks, as well as
> providing advanced network services to businesses and Indian reservations,
> throughout California for 5 years. Another key partner, Inyo Networks, is
> an existing telecommunications provider and will be responsible for
> management and business operations of the network.
> >
>
>
> http://digital395.com/395project.html
>
> Doug Walter ? dawalter at dcn.org ? home
> We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but
> we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. ? Rev.
> Dr. M.L. King
> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-lecture.html
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> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 00:13:45 -0800
> From: Larry Dieterich <ls at whitewavedigital.com>
> To: davisgig at list.omsoft.com
> Subject: [Davisgig] Davis City Council Meeting
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> The meeting went late and the broadband item was next to last.
>
> Magellan Partners and LAFCO presented a report that articulated the
> problem of slow Internet and recommended community fiber as the solution.
>
> The Council unanimously adopted a motion to direct staff to pursue the
> recommendations of the report.
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> >From my perspective, things went as good as we (gigabit proponents) could
> have hoped.
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> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:58:44 -0800
> From: Steve McMahon <steve at dcn.org>
> To: "davisgig at list.omsoft.com" <davisgig at list.omsoft.com>
> Subject: [Davisgig] Council Meeting video archive
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> Hi gigafolks,
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> FYI, last night's "Draft Yolo Broadband Strategic Plan" item is available
> in the city's video archive at
> http://davis.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2
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> I tried the MP4 version first and found it basically useless. On the
> "Video" version, which uses flash,  the agenda item starts at 4:31:35,
> which was somewhere around 11:30pm.
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> Steve
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> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 10:16:12 -0800
> From: Robert Nickerson <omrob at omsoft.com>
> To: davisgig at list.omsoft.com
> Subject: Re: [Davisgig] CBC California Broadband Cooperative | Digital
>         395 Middle Mile Project
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> Hi
>
> Yeah I know the guy that put that in Michael Ort, Praxxis Communications.
>
> He got a big old grant to put that in, and it loooks like its totally
> successful and well done.
>
> There is good fiber all the way from Reno down to Barstow CA.
>
> He told a good story about how it just got lit up in 12.2014.
>
> And a local ISP was able to give everyone a free upgrade from 1 Mbps to
> 15 Mbps and they got a flood of support calls wondering what was going
> on, becasue it was too fast.
>
> RAN
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>
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> On 3/3/2015 11:49 PM, Douglas A. Walter wrote:
> > Hi folks. After a successful conclusion to the agenda item at the
> > Council, I thought I'd pass along one of the items mentioned by Lucas
> > Frerichs. Obviously, Digital 395 is covering a lot of rural ground,
> > while DavisGig is mostly concerned with a suburb. It's still
> > interesting to see how they've structured their project partnership:
> >>
> >> As a public-private partnership among local and state agencies,
> >> organized labor and for-profit companies, [a cooperative] is the best
> >> organizational form that ensures representation by a wide range of
> >> interests in the Eastern Sierra. Praxis Associates, one of the key
> >> partners, has been designing and constructing fiber networks, as well
> >> as providing advanced network services to businesses and Indian
> >> reservations, throughout California for 5 years. Another key partner,
> >> Inyo Networks, is an existing telecommunications provider and will be
> >> responsible for management and business operations of the network.
> >>
> >
> > http://digital395.com/395project.html
> >
> > Doug Walter ? dawalter at dcn.org <mailto:dawalter at dcn.org> ? home
> > We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish,
> > but we have not learned the simple art of living together as
> > brothers. ? Rev. Dr. M.L. King
> >
> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-lecture.html
> >
> >
> >
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