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MARK YOUR CALENDARS April 26 – 28 (Tuesday – Thursday), 2011 InterContinental Dallas www.bbpmag.com email: [email protected] TO SPONSOR OR EXHIBIT: email [email protected] or call 505-867-2668 GET CONNECTED AT THE SUMMIT THE BEST, MOST AUTHORITATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE “The National Broadband Plan is going to turn our country and our industry upside down. Broadband Properties has the best, most authoritative and comprehensive coverage of broadband of any trade publication in the industry. I’ve attended the Summit for several years, and it’s the absolute best place to hear about the issues and see the products that will shape the future of broadband. If you can only go to one conference, LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THE make it the Broadband Properties Summit.” BROADBAND POLICY ARENA Kermit L. 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April 26 – 28, 2011 • InterContinental Dallas • www.bbpmag.com • To sponsor or exhibit: email [email protected] or call 505-867-2668 Editor’s Note Who Needs Fiber EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Scott DeGarmo To the Home? PUBLISHER Nancy McCain [email protected] Corporate Editor, BBP LLC Steven S. Ross [email protected] FTTH is equally at home in a traditional neighborhood Editor Masha Zager development, on a farm and in an aging city seeking [email protected] to reinvent itself for the knowledge economy. ADVERTISING SALES Irene G. Prescott [email protected] roadband is what’s called a gen- reinventing itself as a center of high- MarKeting Specialist Meredith Terrall eral-purpose technology – mean- tech activity. There, tech entrepreneurs, [email protected] ing it can change the way we pro- inspired by the Google Fiber for Com- DESIGN & PRODUCTION B Karry Thomas duce and consume almost everything. It munities project, have spearheaded a Contributors follows that ultra-broadband over fiber is movement to wire the city with fiber – Joe Bousquin David Daugherty, Korcett Holdings Inc. an ultra-general-purpose technology. But and they’ve garnered the support of busi- Richard Holtz, InfiniSys sometimes the sheer variety of its impacts ness and political leaders, universities and W. James MacNaughton, Esq. Henry Pye, RealPage on different lives amazes me. other major institutions. Their ambitious Bryan Rader, Bandwidth Consulting LLC You’ll find lots of great examples in this plan to use FTTH to revitalize the city Robert L. Vogelsang, Broadband Properties Magazine issue of Broadband Properties. The Prop- and its economy draws on the experience Broadband Properties LLC erty of the Month is a traditional neigh- of such cities as Fort Wayne, Ind., whose PRESIDENT & CEO Scott DeGarmo borhood development in Gainesville, Fla., leaders capitalized on the fiber network SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT to which FTTH is integral. Do “fiber to built by Verizon (one of this year’s BBP CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Himi Kittner the home” and “traditional” belong in the Top 100 companies), and Lafayette, La., VICE PRESIDENT, same sentence? Yes. This mixed-use devel- whose LUS Fiber initiative also appears BUSINESS & OPERATIONS Nancy McCain opment is designed to let residents walk to on the Top 100 list. Audience Development/Digital Strategies work, shopping and entertainment, just as There’s more in this issue, too – en- Norman E. Dolph terprises moving data processing to the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD people did before suburban design became Robert L. Vogelsang the norm. But it also offers live-work units cloud to reduce their IT costs, patients VICE CHAIRMAN with chronic illnesses using connected The Hon. Hilda Gay Legg where telecommuters and small business BUSINESS & EDITORIAL OFFICE owners can use high-speed broadband to care to improve their health, small towns Broadband Properties LLC 1909 Avenue G work from home, so everyone can spend rediscovering a sense of community with Rosenberg, Tx 77471 281.342.9655, Fax 281.342.1158 less time in cars. In addition, the homes’ the help of local-content TV stations. 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