Fiber Lets City Go Multimedia

摘要

Owning your own fiber network is a luxury few enterprises can afford. But for the city of Santa Monica, Calif., laying cable was the cheapest and most flexible way to build out its network infrastructure. Santa Monica's CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing) network has paved the way for the city this year to begin rolling out new traffic-management and videoconferencing applications, as well as free Wi-Fi for the public. "Corporate America has to lease its fiber—we're fortunate to be able to own an asset like that," says Jory Wolf, CIO for the growing city of 90,000 residents. "It allowed us to deploy new applications we weren't able to do before."