0. Why All Fiber Gigabit Networks Matter To Your Community

1. Dramatically New Drivers of Interaction, Productivity and Growth Bring Opportunities and Create Demands for Your Community
“Technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.”
Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat

2. Seizing New Inputs is Essential for Economic Growth
Access to new forms of power (steam engines)
Access to new forms of transportation (canals, then trains)
1900’s
Access to new forms of power (electricity)
Access to new forms of transportation (cars, trucks and planes)
2000’s
Access to computing power
Access to data storage
Access to digital communications
Fastest growing parts of the economy are those
that best use new inputs

3. Access to Data and Interaction over the Internet are now Fundamental for Growth
Global IP traffic has increased eightfold over the past 5 years, and will increase threefold over the next 5 years.
Overall, IP traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29 percent from 2011 to 2016.

4. Broadband is the Common Platform for Knowledge Exchange and Creative Development
Networks
Devices
Applications
Users
Broadband Ecosystem
Improvements in each element of the ecosystem drive improvements in others in a virtuous cycle.

5. The Benefits of Having a World Leading Network
“Gr8 for Job Creation”
Twitter 7/28/11
Economic growth, investment and job creation
Improved platform for research
Improved platform for small business development
New ways to distribute the benefits of the information revolution to all parts of the world
New approaches to health care, education, job training and other critical social needs

6. All-Fiber Future-Proofs Your Network
Chart courtesy of Broadband Communities

7. Why FTTH with Gigabit Performance?
A community, region or country has a strategic bandwidth advantage when its residents have the necessary bandwidth to most effectively collaborate with others in improving economic growth and social welfare, with a functionality and at a price superior to those in other communities, regions or countries
How will GIG-based services be used?

8. FTTH Guarantees World-Leading Performance and a Future Proof Network
Ultra high-speed networks available only through fiber to the home are essential to access the applications needed for continued growth

9. Applications Available over FTTH
eGovernment
Health Care
Community
Business/Economic Development
Education
Government to Consumer (G2C)
Government to Business (G2B)
-Communications
-Information
-Registrations
-Fees and taxes
-Civic engagement
Aging in place
Telehealth
Remote Surgery
Databased, pre-surgery
Genetic Sequencing analysis
Community data gathering/interaction services
Air quality monitoring
Transit monitoring
On-demand local information
Retail marketing
Financial services
State of the art modeling, animation and design
Advanced manufacturing
Entertainment
Distance learning through telepresence
Higher education research exchange platform

10. Egovernment Gigabit Networks Enable Cost and Productivity Improvements
Governments need to improve the quality of and streamline service delivery to their citizens
Implementation of an all-fiber network can provide the impetus to consolidate data (demand) needs and offer citizens better on-line experiences
With the capability of tracking and analyzing across all government operations, costs can be reduced and revenues enhanced

11. Health Care All-Fiber Networks enable health care innovations:
Permit analysis, collaboration, diagnosis and treatment among physicians not physically collocated with each other or the patient
Transfer of medical records and imaging
Real time consultation
Specialists treatment regardless of location
Physician training through simulation
All-Fiber Networks enable aging in place:
Reduces costs, improves care and quality of life by allowing seniors to be monitored for medical conditions from home including:
Medication reminders
Electronic exercise and physical therapy coaches
Sensors to monitor activity and behaviors in the home, sending that data to be processed with predictive algorithms that can alert off-site caretakers to impending problems.  

12. Business/Economic Development
FTTH ensures that your businesses are open to world markets
Online sales and advertising
Interaction of complex functions from remote locations such as CAD and remote manufacturing
FTTH communities provide high end job opportunities
Ultrawide bandwidth dependent industries such as data centers
Professional opportunities such as architecture and medicine

13. Business/Economic Development
FTTH Communities Permit Effective Telework
Estimated that 50 million U.S. workers could telecommute – about 2.5 million do now.
U.S.-based call centers employ thousands of home-based workers.
Public and private sector IT decision makers expect telework to increase by 65% and 33%, respectively, in the next three years.

14. Education All-Fiber Networks Enable Distance Learning
Access to subjects not currently taught in your community
Higher education
Brings the world’s experts to your area
Permits learning of complex math and engineering subjects
All-Fiber Networks Offer Enhanced Educational Experiences
Online school communities permits great student/teacher interaction
At upper levels, sharing of data increases value of the research experience

15. Seizing Opportunities for Your Community
The Question Is:
Will you bring high performance all fiber broadband to your community and set it on a path for enhanced interaction, productivity and growth?