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Hi Gary and All<br>
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Thanks for sharing this. <br>
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We are a very tech savvy town "taking back" network infrastructure
for our community and leasing access to it for IP Access, IPTV, and
Content providers to sell services to our citizens. I believe our
network will differentiate itself from all these other FTTP
projects, because of our specific local circumstances, and our
desire to build this infrastructure in an intelligent and forward
looking way.<br>
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As a community network, we should be able to characterize, define
and plan for alternative uses with the deployed fiber. This is a
good example. <br>
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As we think about what we would like the network to do, I have
edited out the operations page here a bit, with some of the core
design elements, I'd like to see in the network. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~help/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=operations">http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~help/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=operations</a><br>
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Please feel free to look it over and add some suggestions if you
think they would be beneficial. <br>
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See any of you that can make it Wed the 3rd at 6:30pm at Omsoft<br>
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BTW - It will be pretty chilly so be prepared for that.<br>
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Thanks<br>
RAN<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/28/2016 10:46 AM, Gary Darling
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<div class="">Missed NSF opportunity</div>
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<div class="">I was contacted by the San Diego supercomputer
center to collaborate on an NSF “Big Data” grant. The topic was
on drought and water in the West. They wanted to utilize
information from an interstate web services network grant that I
have gotten from EPA. I had just a couple of days to submit a
letter of intent. I met the deadline working with the Western
States water council and a CS prof at SDSC. Apparently NSF has
awarded big data hub grants around the country in the West, hub
grants were awarded to SDSC, Berkeley CS and University of
Washington CS. I believe that there will be a series of “spoke”
grants that will be offered soon. Some of these grants will be
for community networks. This would be a perfect opportunity for
a place like Davis. If I end up a collaborator on the NSF
project I’ll be able to effetely monitor this opportunity.</div>
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<div class="">I had a conversation with city staff on a proposal I
was calling “sensible Davis” the project would instal a series
of sensors across Davis to help optimize things like water use.
For example sprinkler systems could be given guidance based on
weather reports and observed temperature.This would cut water
use without hurting plants. Staff liked the idea, but once Davis
GIG came up it became clear that telemetry should be bundled in
with what would become a DCN 2.0 that would consider
implications of much faster communications and the social and
technical implications of ubiquitous inexpensive sensors
connected to that network. Future grant funding will depend on
us coming up with innovative ways to use networks we should
include new applications in the davis gig work.</div>
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