Digital infrstructure in New Mexico

[Tom Johnson]

FRIAMers in New Mexico will, I suspect, find this presentation of interest.
It lays out the state's plan to bring broadband to its citizens in the
coming 18-24  months.  It is not clear whether non-government agencies will
be able to take advantage of this resource.

Jeanne O'Dean points us to http://www.cio.state.nm.us/  Once on the page,
look to the center column, bottom and click on" **Added Wire NM Presentation
<http://www.cio.state.nm.us/content/cioReports/WireNMPresentation7-19-2006.pdf>&
OCIO"<http://www.cio.state.nm.us/content/itResources/LegalAuthorityITdocuments.pdf>

Thanks, Jeanne.

-tj
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[David Breecker]

I took a close look at the Wire NM project a couple of years ago, as part of the State-wide strategy for digital media I authored (www.altMediaNM.org) and its considerable bandwidth requirements.

At that time it seemed clear that Wire NM was for State and municipal agencies, and maybe hospitals, schools, and libraries, but certainly not private sector entities.  Indeed, it was "sold" to the legislature as a way to reduce State government's telecom bill, with a 50% savings over Quest more-or-less promised.

Assuming nothing's changed (and as I recall, there were technical problems with the Wire NM architecture as well), those of us who want a better system (e.g., National Lambda Rail multi-Gb access) will need to figure out another way...

David

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  From: Tom Johnson
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  Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 5:06 PM
  Subject: [FRIAM] Digital infrstructure in New Mexico


  FRIAMers in New Mexico will, I suspect, find this presentation of interest.  It lays out the state's plan to bring broadband to its citizens in the coming 18-24  months.  It is not clear whether non-government agencies will be able to take advantage of this resource.

  Jeanne O'Dean points us to http://www.cio.state.nm.us/  Once on the page, look to the center column, bottom and click on"  Added Wire NM Presentation & OCIO"

  Thanks, Jeanne.

  -tj
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  Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
  www.analyticjournalism.com
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  http://www.jtjohnson.com               tom at jtjohnson.com

  "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
  To change something, build a new model that makes the
  existing model obsolete."
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[Tim Densmore]

I wrote out a long rant about the state of telephony in NM but decided that it
would be in poor taste to post it.  It is my firm opinion that NM is probably
in the bottom 10% of the USA in terms of wired-ness, possibly lower.  I don't
think anything short of (rhetorical) violent bloody revolution is going to
change this.  The LECs sure aren't going to volunteer to drop billions of
dollars on this sort of project, and in fact have been making strong
political movements in exactly the opposite direction.  What is happening in
the telcom industry in NM (and the rest of the US for that matter) is nothing
short of criminal IMO.

Humorously, I couldn't download the PDF linked to because the bandwith to that
server has horribly saturated.  Digg Effect (slashdotted) or cosmic irony -
you decide.

[Giles Bowkett]

On 8/11/06, Tim Densmore <tim at backspaces.net> wrote:
> I wrote out a long rant about the state of telephony in NM but decided that it
> would be in poor taste to post it.  It is my firm opinion that NM is probably
> in the bottom 10% of the USA in terms of wired-ness, possibly lower.

there's a great book called "Rise of the Creative Class" which arose
out of some economics research. part of the research included indexing
cities in the US in terms of talent, tolerance, and technology. I
think some of their definitions were a bit off -- "talent" was
measured by graduate degrees per capita, if I recall correctly, which
it'd be more upfront to call "education" -- but the interesting thing
is that Santa Fe was top ten for talent, top 25 for tolerance, and
number 235 for technology. I do recall the technology index
incorporated broadband connectivity to some extent.

I think this either corroborates your perception, or illuminates why
connectivity seems so bad. it may be in the bottom 10% -- it's
definitely way below standard compared to other factors. in fact if
Santa Fe's tech index score was on a level with its talent and
tolerance indices, this book makes a very compelling argument that in
that case, economic growth would be the logical thing to expect.

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Giles Bowkett
http://www.gilesgoatboy.org