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Broadband discussion tonight (7-12) Tech Com Mtg

Discussion in 'Community Broadband & Computers' started by hornerjo, Jul 12, 2005.

  1. hornerjo

    hornerjo Senior Member

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    Tonight at our monthly tech committee meeting we will have a special guest answering questions and providing information for the duture of Broadband for Ashburn. He is a director for Broadband for Loudoun Country and should be a great discussion!

    Drop by the Community Center tonight at 8pm (Tuesday, 7-12-05)

    Sorry for the short notice.

    John

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    hornerjo, Jul 12, 2005
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  2. Pictor Guy

    Pictor Guy New Member

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    I wish I could make it. Would someone be kind enough to post highlights here for those of us who can't attend in person?

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  3. hornerjo

    hornerjo Senior Member

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    It was a very interesting discussion. Scott (I missed his last name, I have it on a card at home) gave a fairly well done rundown of the Broadband for the county. For background, Scott worked as an engineer at AOL and PSI.Net for quite a long time and has been in the Broadlands for about 7 years. He is now working as the Broadband lead for the County.

    Scott has been working for about 15 weeks on the job. His duties right now are to map out the county broadband and work with getting information from all the major providers on technologies and rollout plans (among others).

    We talked alot about the history of broadband for us and what we felt we needed in the future. One of the biggest things was the need for a provider that allowed open IP addresses (so we could run our own servers).

    He also has no information on rollout plans for any of the providers. Getting information out of Verizon was totally unresponsive to all requests for information.

    Scott said he would be more than happy to meet with us again in a few months.

    John

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    hornerjo, Jul 14, 2005
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  4. Twriter

    Twriter Get a Mac!

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    Scott's last name is Bashore.

    I like this comment:
    > He also has no information on rollout plans for any of the providers. Getting information out of Verizon was totally unresponsive to all requests for information. <

    This sounds way too familiar. Can ANYBODY get info out of Verizon?
    --- John B.
     
    Twriter, Jul 15, 2005
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