Municipal and Utility Fiber Optics Guidebook
The Municipal & Utility Guidebook to Bringing Broadband Fiber Optics to Your Community is a free, comprehensive guide to the economic and quality-of-life benefits of robust fiber infrastructure. It examines in detail four communities that have successfully deployed fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) services to their citizens and businesses.
“This guidebook helps government leaders build a strong case for investing in FTTH infrastructure,” said Alan Shark, Executive Director of PTI. “With thorough analysis, interviews and painstaking research, it sets forth strategies that, if followed, will help American communities whose broadband needs are not being met by current market dynamics to prosper in the information age.”
The 136-page book investigates several benefits of FTTH in local sectors, including transportation and healthcare, both of which face intensifying pressures to become more efficient and less costly. It also examines the value a municipal fiber network can bring to wireless mobile services.
About the Authors
David Chaffee has been writing, editing and publishing in the area of fiber optics since 1982. He is founder and CEO of Chaffee Fiber Optics and currently edits and publishes a daily report, fibertoday.com, and magazine, The FTTH Prism. He has written two books on fiber optics, published by Academic Press and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. He formerly served as Corporate Editor for Ciena Corporation. Mr. Chaffee was Washington Editor of Photonics Spectra Magazine. He literally has written thousands of articles and reports in the communications area. Mr.Chaffee played the lead publishing role for this report.
Mitchell Shapiro has been analyzing telecom, media and broadband markets for more than 20 years. Most recently, he was a Senior Consultant with Pike & Fischer, where his numerous publications have included reports on municipal broadband and fiber optics. He has also worked as an independent consultant and as a senior analyst and writer for leading research and publishing firms such as Paul Kagan Associates and Probe Research, as well as Pangrac & Associates, a leading network engineering consultancy. Mr. Shapiro was the Guidebook’s primary researcher and writer.
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