State Telecom Activities

摘要

Residents of communities with super-fast networks are trying to build a case for how to bestnuse fiber’s speeds, KC Digital Drive Managing Director Aaron Deacon wrote in a Friday op-ed fornSilicon Prairie News (http://bit.ly/13qF0a0). He spotlighted a weekend event in the Kansas Citynarea called Hacking the Gigabit City, sponsored by his organization and focused on answering thosenquestions and looking at how the dynamics play out in that region, where Google is building a network capable of gigabit speeds. “We couldn't be more excited to collaborate with other cities andnorganizations in building out fiber use cases, whether from our fellow fiber city of Chattanoogan[Tenn.,] or from crack developer teams working on interactive online education, 3D imaging andnvisualization and all sorts of other next-generation apps,” Deacon said. “Success in Kansas City requiresnand facilitates the success of next-gen networks in other places.” Google has brought a fastnnetwork but not a fiber use case, he said, saying it’s up to residents. He pointed out that failures andnpossessing speed worth wasting is an important part of the process. The Kauffman Foundation,nbased in Kansas City, Mo., and focused on education and entrepreneurship, supports both SiliconnPrairie News and the weekend hacking event.