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<p>Hi folks, <br>
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<p>I put on emergency list moderation so this did not go out in a
timely way. I'm resending it now so its at the top of your inbox</p>
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<p>Thx</p>
<p>RAN<br>
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<td>[Davisgig] Municipal Fiber Feasibility Study Update</td>
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<td>Fri, 2 Jun 2017 15:10:57 -0700</td>
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<td>Steve McMahon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steve@dcn.org"><steve@dcn.org></a></td>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi DavisGIG folks,
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<div>As part of the City of Davis' municipal fiber feasibility
study, a pre-engineering survey is being conducted to get a
ballpark figure for the cost of building the network.
Yesterday, the Finley Engineering team for that survey met
with a room full of COD folks as part of a site visit. I
attended as an observer for the Broadband Advisory Task Force
and wanted to let you know some of what I learned.</div>
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<div>The meeting was attended by representatives of Public
Works, the City Manager's office, City IT and the City's
Innovation Officer and vice-officer. Finley's two engineers
reported that they're getting great assistance from the COD
folks and are enthusiastic about their findings to-date.</div>
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<div>They expect to recommend that the project be entirely
undergrounded (not on poles, even in neighborhoods that have
them), using directional boring. The effect on streets should
be minimal. They anticipate that there will be no above-ground
"lawn furniture" (pedestals), instead using small underground
vaults similar to (and possibly often next to) the vaults used
for water meters.</div>
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<div>They're looking at a major backbone loop through the
contiguous part of the city with extension loops crossing 113
and 80 to West and South Davis. Distribution nodes of the
backbone would be located in 4-5 locations. It looks like the
city already owns all the locations we should need for that.
De-commissioned wells are a particularly good possibility.
Individual fibers would run from those locations to each
premises. Distribution would probably be a mix of <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network"
moz-do-not-send="true">GPON</a> and active, depending on the
needs of the consumer/business at the end of the line.
Switching from one to another would be as easy as switching
electronic cards. The engineers are including residential
areas that adjoin the city, but aren't part of it (El Macero
excluded as they're doing their own with Comcast).</div>
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<div>Individual units in Multi-Dwelling Units (aka apartment
buildings) may be connected in many ways (or not connected at
all if landlords don't do it), ranging from fiber in the walls
to forms of ultra-fast DSL on pre-existing copper lines. That
will largely be the responsibility of the owners.</div>
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<div>Connections to single-family homes and businesses will go
to network demarcation boxes, like those we already have for
telephone, typically on the side of houses.</div>
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<div>Let me emphasize that this is just some early information
from the people doing the feasibility study. It is not
complete engineering and it tells us little about whether or
not we'll be able to come up with a business plan that works
for Davis. But if you're like me, the details of possibilities
are still exciting!</div>
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<div>Steve</div>
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