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Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 10:35 AM Nick, it would be great if you could come. Also, please extend the invitation to your FRIAM confederates. …Wear something warm and bring-your-own device with an Ethernet port. Good coffee and pastry for the masses. Cheers, Sean.
Countdown to Gigabit Speed!!!
Join us to Flip the Switch and Connect Santa Fe to the Future Mayor Gonzales and the City’s Economic Development Division invite you to celebrate activating the first gigabit district in Santa Fe through Santa Fe Fiber, the City’s innovative broadband infrastructure project. On Monday, December 14th from 9 until 11 AM Mayor Gonzales will be joined by special industry guests to flip the switch and experience first-hand the power and potential of gigabit-speed Internet delivered over the City’s newly completed fiber optic backbone. The community is invited to bring devices and try out the new speed! Event Location – City of Santa Fe Offices at 500 Market Street Event Schedule – 9am – Coffee and Pastries 930am – Mayor Javier M. Gonzales will provide an overview of what the City has accomplished and what comes next. Special guests: David King, New Mexico Vice President of Level 3 Communications will speak briefly about the physical structure of the Internet and the role of tier one carriers globally and locally. Doug Glen, former senior executive with Metro/PCS, will discuss emerging broadband technologies and the common infrastructural core that every city must have to prepare for the future. 10am - Mayor Gonzales will flip the switch to activate Santa Fe’s very first gigabit-speed Internet connection. 10am-11am - Press and members of the community are invited to bring their own devices and test gigabit speed! ###
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Yeah, I was there. Looks like it might be a good start, but it probably will be a long time until fiber-to-the-home is available for most of Santa Fe. What else is new. But the mayor did say that he is going to ask the city council to open up 8,000 sf of space in the 500 Market St. (above REI) to start-ups. Free? I don't know. As he said, that space, which now has gigabyte cnx, has been vacant since the building was constructed. Of course this is what SF Complex tried to do 8 yrs ago. I've seen the mayor recently at a couple events like this. I think that unlike his predecessor, he gets the idea of the Digital Revolution and is genuinely engaged is trying to move ahead. A welcome change. This new gigabyte system is, we are told, an open system, so any provider can connect and resell the service.  ============================================ Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Society of Professional Journalists - Region 9 Director Check out It's The People's Data On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Arlo Barnes <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Thanks, Tom, for this report. So how does this work from here? Could I start a company called Egg-Head Services (my logo would by Humpty-Dumpty sitting on a wall) and start connecting people to the hub? Would I need my own wire? Or could I commandeer wires already there? As for the space over REI, does the City now hire people to oversee it? Do we have any thoughts who that might be? Wink, wink; nudge, nudge. Does anybody have any policy guidelines for the operation of such a space? W,w; n, n. Isn’t this something we have been dreaming about? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Yeah, I was there. Looks like it might be a good start, but it probably will be a long time until fiber-to-the-home is available for most of Santa Fe. What else is new. But the mayor did say that he is going to ask the city council to open up 8,000 sf of space in the 500 Market St. (above REI) to start-ups. Free? I don't know. As he said, that space, which now has gigabyte cnx, has been vacant since the building was constructed. Of course this is what SF Complex tried to do 8 yrs ago. I've seen the mayor recently at a couple events like this. I think that unlike his predecessor, he gets the idea of the Digital Revolution and is genuinely engaged is trying to move ahead. A welcome change. This new gigabyte system is, we are told, an open system, so any provider can connect and resell the service. -Tom Sent with MailTrack
http://www.jtjohnson.com [hidden email] On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Arlo Barnes <[hidden email]> wrote:
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In reply to this post by Nick Thompson
Nick-- I don't think there are answers to your space question yet. First, the City Council has to get on board. As to access, call Cybermesa. It has some contract related to laying the lines. But there seem to be wifi-to-house alternatives, but I don't know the details. On Dec 14, 2015 12:57 PM, "Nick Thompson" <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I don’t know if the Qwest lawsuit over the Communications Franchise Ordinance was ever settled. I would think that unless the ordinance was fixed, it will be hard for companies to provide services via this new link.
Ed _______________________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon
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In reply to this post by Tom Johnson
FYI, I called the contact number on the Santa Fe fiber website, which indeed was cybermesa. The person I spoke with was not very informative about any timescale for rollout other than stating that service would begin with businesses in the railyard area then the Capitol. He mentioned that more fiber would need to be laid to include other areas and/or households. He did not mention wifi extensions to fiber access. Basically it did not seem as if cybermesa was interested or capable of providing service to consumers as opposed to businesses any time soon. However, it may just be that the person I spoke with was a sales person who did not want to waste his time talking about a service he could not yet sell. Judith Sent from my iPhone
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