Chattanooga’s municipal FTTH network is near completion

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After overcoming political wrangling with the city’s incumbent service providers to build its Fiber to the Home network, the joint Chattanooga, Tenn. Electric Power Board (EPB) network will be completed by the end of this year.

Earlier this fall, EPB caught the attention of the launched a 1 Gbps service for the power user that doesn’t have a problem paying $350 for the service. Users also have the option of buying a lower-priced 30 Mbps and 50 Mbps symmetrical service with various triple play bundled options.

As reported in The Chattanoogan, a $112 million federal grant enabled the EPB to complete the FTTH network in three versus the 10  years it initially forecast.

Competing against the likes of AT&T (NYSE: T) and Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), EPB said it would have over 20,000 residential and 2,500 business customers by the end of the year.

Since the FTTH network is being built by a local utility, EPB is leveraging the network for its smart grid initiative. By installing 1,500 large switches in its utility network, EPB said it will be able to not only better pinpoint power outages, but also eliminate the need for manual meter reading.

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About Mark Milliman

Mark Milliman is a Principal Consultant at Inphotonics Research driving the adoption and assisting local governments to plan, build, operate, and lease access open-access municipal broadband networks. Additionally, he works with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to increase the value of their intellectual capital through the creation of strategic product plans and execution of innovative marketing strategies. With more than 22 years of experience in the telecommunications industry that began at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Mark has built fiber, cable, and wireless networks around the world to deliver voice, video, and data services. His thorough knowledge of all aspects of service delivery from content creation to the design, operation, and management of the network is utilized by carriers and equipment manufacturers. Mark conceived and developed one of the industry's first multi-service provisioning platform and is multiple patent holder. He is active in the IEEE as a senior member. Mark received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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