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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – Broadband Stimulus to Empower a Nation
Industries that are ready for change, embrace it.
Allied Fiber was formed to address the need for the nation’s next-generation broadband and network infrastructure. In November 2008, five months after the formation of Allied Fiber, the US Government also confronted the nation’s communication infrastructure issues. The US Broadband Stimulus was born-- further validating Allied Fiber’s core mission to deliver necessary capacity and access to all of America.
Over the past ten years, with the development of the nation’s communications infrastructure, we have further demonstrated that knowledge is power. Broadband networks enable the delivery of knowledge, therefore empowering a nation. But it’s difficult to empower a complete nation, especially when there is a surmounting problem for network operators to reach unserved or under-served areas. Today, broadband networks are provided in the densest areas, serving the most affluent regions of the country. Other areas access technology born over 100 years ago, riding copper infrastructure that limits access to information and services. More.
Legacy Networks
Allied Fiber see huge opportunities with AT&T’s request to the FCC to phase out the legacy telephone systems
Allied Fiber sees validation of the huge growth potential in dark fiber investment from AT&T’s recent request to the FCC to phase out the legacy telephone systems, known in the industry as “Plain Old Telephone Service” (POTS) and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). It is only a matter of time before “circuit switched” wireline service disappears, and forcing Bells such as AT&T to continue to operate and maintain two distinct networks, one which will soon be obsolete in terms of consumer preference and technology, is a hardship, not only on the RBOCs, but on America’s broadband access.
Allied Fiber is committed to a national, carrier neutral, dark fiber network rollout to directly address the need for the nation’s broadband access. Additionally this long haul fiber will have a secondary, short-haul fiber with intermediate access points connecting cell towers, Allied Fiber’s neutral colocation huts and the country’s leading data centers and carrier hotels. Therefore, when other US towns and cities, currently underserved or unserved in terms of broadband access, connect to this national, neutral network, they are indeed connecting and creating one national, invisible city, where they have access, both mobile and wireline, to a marketplace of communications services and applications, and the necessary, robust capacity and infrastructure to run these services. Indeed, AT&T and other RBOCs can connect to Allied Fiber’s neutral network to gain immediate right of way and access to light new fiber and expand its own network reach without the burdensome cost of laying fiber in rural and/or underserved locations. Allied Fiber is taking on the task of building fiber for the country and connecting enterprise and carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, banks, governments, schools and any company or entity with a need for large bandwidth, to link their existing network footprints, at key, neutral colocation hubs along the Allied Fiber route. This plan will finally address the nation’s need for next-generation broadband and pave the way for our country to continue to be competitive, in terms of technology and communication infrastructure, in the years to come.
Indeed, smaller countries that do not have as much physical land to cover with cable connections, have already moved forward with scrapping their POTS lines and engaging in one national, neutral, next-generation network for all their carriers and enterprises to utilize. These countries are already reaping the benefits of the latest 4G and beyond technology, and America, large in her land and in her innovation, should not be left behind.
To read the AT&T story, please click here.
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