From rob at omsoft.com Tue Oct 10 17:12:35 2017 From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:12:35 -0700 Subject: [Davisgig] COS Systems at Davis Makerspace 10.17 at 9:30am Message-ID: DavisGIG Presents Meeting with Cos Systems Cos Systems is based in Sweden, and serves the European telecommunications market, and is beginning to gain ground in the US.? Cos makes software called Service Zones that does Fiber Internet demand aggregation and signup management for fiber network builds. Picture the city being broken up into 22 neighborhoods, and city leaders being able to see all the demand visually represented by red flags of residents being willing to sign up for the service, also can be used to sign folks up, and figure out where demand is highest to create a build order, as well as ? survey residents about network needs. Cos? also have an OSS called Business Engine. Business Engine is Operational Systems Software for an open access fiber optic network. Both of these tools will be very useful to the DavisGIG network effort. Isak Finer, the Chief Marketing Officer from Umea, Sweden? will be live at Davis Makerspace Tuesday October 17th at 9:30am demoing both of these softwares through the projector facility available at DMS. Should be exciting. DavisGIG raised money last year through the Big day of giving with the express intent of implementing this software to support the project after the City of Davis Study process reached a good point. Should you like to attend, seating is limited but refreshments will be served. Contact rob at omsoft.com if you would like to attend. From rob at omsoft.com Wed Oct 11 17:43:14 2017 From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:43:14 -0700 Subject: [Davisgig] We have some action - Going to send this out to the announce list tomorrow and publish on FB and Twitter Message-ID: <8d5ae770-4e26-3e08-0821-cee2e180a2ac@omsoft.com> DavisGIG came together in Jan 2015 in order to advocate for better Internet Access options for residents of Davis. We are pleased to announce that after 2.66 years these efforts are beginning to succeed. DavisGIG is advocating for a community-driven model that benefits the city government, the residents, and the cause of economic development. DavisGIG developed a business model we would like to see happen in the City around fiber. The City government? is very engaged with a consultant to examine the costs of a fiber deployment and several business models ours one of them, with near term results expected. While all this is happening, City staff advised both ATT and Comcast that our City is seriously considering its own fiber optic deployment, and our David has roused Goliath. ATT is building FTTH in a small portion of our City! DavisGIG advocates predicted that our first benefit would be forcing a reaction from incumbent carriers, either better prices, or better service, or both, to derail a community led effort. And so it has come to pass... ATT will build Fiber to the Home (FTTH) in Old North Davis between 5th and 7th on B, C, and D Streets. We don't know of other locations in the City but DavisGIG volunteers do have access to ATT copper based ordering systems, and we find this small area no longer supports ordering of any copper based facilities for Internet. After checking through Internet vendors that operate in the are and contacts we have confirmed this area is now Fiber Only, with construction on the way. You can be sure we will keep our eye out on this and advise as to other locations we see that are no longer registering as available for copper. Is this the first step to a complete City wide build out? Perhaps?! Davis is an affluent town after all, but that remains to be seen. This same move was done by ATT in Santa Cruz CA when they got wind of a collaboration between the long time local ISP, CruzIO, and the City of Santa Cruz. Although ATT Gigapower fiber was put in Santa Cruz over 2 years ago, it still just remains the one neighborhood. CruzIO is proceeding with a FTTH deployment on their own, good on them! We don't want ATT snooping on all our Internet uses, or reinforcing their monopoly. We want a City owned, community-operated telecommunications network that meets the needs of our community; our schools, our residents, UCD. We want oversight of our telecommunications community-based operation provides, and we want a selection of ISPs to compete for sales to our citizens, not just one that charges monopoly pricing. We want our City to have a valuable asset that it can then lease to 5G Cell operators, use for SmartGrid Applications, or other uses the future requires. Ubiquitous fiber is coming to our town as these cell phone company fiber networks are built, let's have our City benefit from that directly, have a fiber network ready to lease to them. The City needs revenues, businesses needs neutral, ubiquitous, reliable connectivity. This project will lift the boat for everyone. We believe this development should inspire our City leaders to continue, when they see the large incumbents investing in this opportunity. We would like to thank everyone involved in the effort that has gotten us to this point, which is the first solid success for better Internet options for Davis. -- Robert Nickerson UCD Class of 1996 CEO, Om Networks cell: 5308483865 www.omsoft.com From rob at omsoft.com Wed Oct 11 17:44:52 2017 From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:44:52 -0700 Subject: [Davisgig] Oct 2017 meeting with COS Message-ID: <7d55f2b6-c30d-8a3d-c32d-9cbfb1220695@omsoft.com> Hi This meeting is free to attend, please let me know if you'd like to attend. Davis Makerspace is in the Tim Spencer Alley - so it can be hard to find. http://www.davismakerspace.org/about/location Take Care -- Robert Nickerson UCD Class of 1996 CEO, Om Networks cell: 5308483865 www.omsoft.com From rob at omsoft.com Thu Oct 19 10:06:24 2017 From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:06:24 -0700 Subject: [Davisgig] Fwd: Building a Fiber Network from the Ground Up In-Reply-To: <1129160067148.1101292665313.1789984320.0.381233JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> References: <1129160067148.1101292665313.1789984320.0.381233JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> Message-ID: <267c93eb-d5bd-9f27-f41c-1f277efdd028@omsoft.com> HI All I'm going to start sending these out, they have good articles. Should be relatively low list traffic. Enjoy. RAN Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Fiber Installation: Push, Pull, Blow or Drop? 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URL: From rob at omsoft.com Thu Oct 19 11:26:39 2017 From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:26:39 -0700 Subject: [Davisgig] Gimmie Fiber Day Message-ID: <47737499-a22d-b30b-4538-1dd96114b505@omsoft.com> Hi Folks ! So any ideas of what to do for this?? Maybe table at Farmers Market? https://www.fiberbroadband.org/page/gimme-fiber-day Take Care -- Robert Nickerson UCD Class of 1996 CEO, Om Networks cell: 5308483865 www.omsoft.com From wes at hardakers.net Mon Oct 23 15:55:41 2017 From: wes at hardakers.net (Wes Hardaker) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:55:41 -0700 Subject: [Davisgig] Gimmie Fiber Day In-Reply-To: <47737499-a22d-b30b-4538-1dd96114b505@omsoft.com> (Robert Nickerson's message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:26:39 -0700") References: <47737499-a22d-b30b-4538-1dd96114b505@omsoft.com> Message-ID: Robert Nickerson writes: > So any ideas of what to do for this?? Maybe table at Farmers Market? > > https://www.fiberbroadband.org/page/gimme-fiber-day Anyone ever thought of putting together a local-over-gig-cable web server onsite along with a real parallel server at a distance to show the visible speed difference? (better yet: bring a wireless router and let people connect and try server1 and server2 on their phones/etc) -- Wes Hardaker My Pictures: http://capturedonearth.com/ My Thoughts: http://blog.capturedonearth.com/