FTTH Coming To Lincoln, Nebraska 45
andyring writes: Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of silicon prairie is getting gigabit fiber to every home and business in the next four years. It's a wet dream for anyone in the tech world. No install fees, no contracts, no modem rentals, guaranteed minimum of 100 mbit, no throttling, etc. It'll provide phone and TV as well. I've read the entire franchise agreement and it's a very good arrangement for the city. Interestingly enough, it's largely possible because back in the 1970s, a public works guy had the brilliant idea to install conduit to all the city's traffic signals. So there's more than 300 miles of conduit already installed and leasable. A local company, Nelnet, bought a western Nebraska company, Allo Communications, apparently because the top Nelnet guy couldn't get fiber to his home very easily. So he figured, heck, I'll just buy the company and get fiber to the whole city.
It's a lot easier to pull off (Score:1)
When you've got a city laid out like this:
http://www.streetlookup.com/city/lincoln-map.html
Just saying.
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Not so much the layout as the size as well. Phoenix is laid out like this, only the area it covers is vast. We also have conduit everywhere, and even already existing fiber (both dark and otherwise.) Supposedly Tempe already hammered out an agreement for Google to begin deploying fiber here, until Cox sued the city to stop it from happening (I think that lawsuit is still pending.) Probably not coincidentally, Cox has been deploying its own FTTH services all over Tempe (or at least, there's city-placed oran
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Scratching an itch (Score:3)
Doesn't just work for software apparently. That public works guy sounds like a hero.
Be nice if the city here would work on things like this instead of putting our lanes on a diet so they can screw up traffic squeezing in bike paths.
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Indeed. It'll be interesting to see how our anti-government types turn this into something bad. Perhaps the public works guy was "an entrepreneur at heart"?
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Relax. Operating street traffic-devices is accepted as the government's responsibility by almost all Libertarians. As long as running a wire to each light made sense for that purpose, over-provisioning a little bit for a proper conduit is fine.
Re: Scratching an itch (Score:1)
Any libertarian, true or not, accepts as a fundamental proposition that a state (the state) should exist.
Anarchists believe the state is unnecessary.
Thus, libertarians would say that the state if Nebraska (and perhaps the U.S.A.) is necessary. While an anarchist would say that the only government necessary for running public works is something the size of Lincoln, Nebraska. And that city government may or may not include all the other functions, like policing. But whatever it does it does so without being u
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I never thought of this angle before; bear with me as I set it up.
Currently, roadway funding mostly comes from gasoline and diesel taxes. As EVs become more popular, those monies will begin drying up. Governments, always concerned with keeping the money flowing in, are already trying to come up with ways of replacing that revenue from EV drivers.
From the comments that I have read so far, bicyclists feel that they deserve a lane to themselves, and many cities feel that they should have one as well, where a
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Ain't Silicon Prairie... (Score:2)
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The term has become quite a bit more generic over the years. For historical reasons there is a lot of technical infrastructure along I-29 so we get quite a few businesses springing up to take advantage of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Wet dream (Score:2)
Yeah, a technophiliac's wet dream to drown in even more data.
do you have to use there router? (Score:2)
do you have to use there router? if so whey can't they just give you an ONT with an Ethernet hand off?
Also for tv will there be TV box outlet fees?
Yeah, It's Nice (Score:5, Interesting)
EPB Fiber Optics in Chattanooga TN has this now. (Score:1)
Chattanooga TN already has gigabit capabilities like this. EPB fiber optics can provide gigabit to your home for about 60 bucks a month. They also have phone ans cable service.
The Commons (Score:4, Insightful)
Thank your government.
Big whoop (Score:2)
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Yes, but you, your kids, your spouse, your visitors, etc. can all do that at the same time without slowing down. As video streaming is taking off, you can all stream in HD without stuttering.
And, sorry, but every fecking website on the planet - virtually - can easily swamp a 100Mbps connection at the other end, on demand, whenever it's necessary. Most of the time my servers are sitting bog-idle in their datacentre, even with thousands of hits coming in. It's only when I deliberately transfer, say, a 1Gb
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Yes, but you, your kids, your spouse, your visitors, etc. can all do that at the same time without slowing down. As video streaming is taking off, you can all stream in HD without stuttering.
But the upload bandwidth is unchanged and so is the latency.
Every time you load a web page and it makes a billion requests to load images, ads and scripts there's a latency round trip for each element ; at 20Mb/s down, 1Mb/s up the TCP acknowledgment packets become a problem too (if your HD streaming is done in UDP, good)
I would choose a 10/10 connection with 15 ms latency over a 20/1 with 30 to 40 ms latency any day.
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It's 1000Mbps although with no guarantee you will get it (mmm, guarantee, warranty? why are there two forms of the same word?)
I guess that many customers will simply connect using a 100BaseT network interface, or use a 100BaseT switch somewhere in the chain. And that's fine.
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Isn't FTTH old news? (Score:2)