Name For a Community-Owned Fiber Network?

CleverMonkey writes "I'm a town representative to a newly created municipal group creating a new type of telco. This group has formed to build and operate a FTTH network, and provide both triple-play services and access to other providers, to over 20 mostly rural towns in East-Central Vermont. The project is novel because of the size of the network (a cable pass down every road within 600 square miles), the low-density of the area served, and the public-ownership/private-financing model that is being used. Some of the towns included in this group currently have nothing beyond 14.4 dial-up on a good day. This project began as a grassroots effort in a couple of towns and the name they chose was ECFiber — East-Central Fiber — or sometimes the East-Central Vermont Community Network. We hope that this network will grow beyond one corner of this state, and we would like a name that is both descriptive and flexible. What would you name a community-owned, cutting-edge, G-PON fiber-optic network covering every remote corner of two-dozen contiguous towns?"

Easy.

[The Ancients]

What would you name a community-owned, cutting-edge, G-PON fiber-optic network covering every remote corner of two-dozen contiguous towns?"

Heaven.

Isn't it obvious?

[Minwee]

I would say CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet [compuglobalhypermega.net], but it's already taken.

How about CutCo, EdgeCom or Interslice?

I've got a good title

[Anonymous Coward]

How about this:

Vermont's Eastern/Rural Independently Zoned Open Network

I'm sure the name has never been used.

You're asking the *INTERNET* to name your project?

[Anonymous Coward]

Enjoy becoming the Astley Network

Never gonna give your packets up, I suppose.

Re:Bob

[smittyoneeach]

What, you want it to suck mightily?
Granted, it might be the only former MicroSoft product whose name you could use without getting sued...

Fiberoads

[CFrankBernard]

Fiberoads, take me home
To the place I belong
East-Central Vermont, mountain momma
Take me home, Fiberoads

Too Good...

[Nom du Keyboard]

I'd call it the 2G2BT network. (Too Good To Be True.)

You don't really think that the incumbent telcos are going to let you survive to complete this, do you?

First pick the acronym

[BeBoxer]

Pick the acronym first. Then decide what it stands for. Use a 'V', it is Vermont after all. Let's say you go with "VLAN". Vermont Local Access Network. That was easy. Or "VICAR". Vermont Internet and Commodity Access Route. Another easy one. "RAVE". Rural Access for Vermont Enlightenment. See how easy it is? Just remember: Acronym first. Meaning second.

Obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

Grassroots Open Access To Serve East-Central Vermont

Pick a dumb name

[menace3society]

I would call it IntarWeb, or Interbutts, or some other dumb slang word for the internet, and then go around and sue the pants off everyone that uses it online. This way has three advantages:
1 - you have a lot of built-in name recognition
2 - you have an extra revenue stream from suing idiots
3 - you will force said idiots to stop using at least one dumb slang term, the whole world benefits!

H_O_P_E_D

[edwardpickman]

"Home and Office Porn Efficiently Delivered"

Re:First pick the acronym

[Anonymous Coward]

Announcing:
 
Vermont
Allied
Grassroots
Initiative
Network
Access

Re:In Sweden

[fluffman86]

I hate you.

Need a roomate? :D

Re:Wireless (mobile) networking?

[Javarrito]

14.4k dial-up, wow

Yeah, I agree, that's blazing. I'm from the North-East Kingdom and I'm still taking my TCP packets to and from the ISP on foot. The bandwidth can be fairly good, but I have some serious latency and I keep timing out for some reason.

Re:Glassroutes!

[Anonymous Coward]

How about this: "Screw You, Verizon".

Mystic Fibrosis

[Anonymous Coward]

(ducks)

Metamunicipal

[Torodung]

Name it Metamunicipal: Get your fiber here.

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Toro

Re:Grassroute! = Glassroot?

[somersault]

Why muck about? Fairly obvious extrapolation of G-PON:

Gigabit
Passive
Rural
Optical
Network

G-PRON! Or G-PORN if you will, but that is just crass.