Dear Google...Wow!
Thanks for offering to put gigabit fiber in a city. Gainesville is excited about how you're using this experiment as a way to kickstart a network revolution. We're ready to help you succeed by leveraging our unique "collaboratory". We understand that hundreds of cities have responded to your RFI and that reading through all those responses is a daunting task. So we'll make things fast and efficient by keeping our pitch short:
Why Gainesville is the perfect community to create a Google Collaboratory:
Gainesville will make it EASIER for Google to deploy a fiber optic network:
You'll find we have no legal or regulatory barriers or similar delays. Our city and county and commissioners are unanimously enthusiastic. Likewise, University of Florida and Santa Fe College officials are lending their support, as are the business community, UF & SFC students, and the general population. read more »
Gainesville will help Google complete its fiber network FASTER than any other city:
The key is that Google can piggyback on our city-owned utility's existing fiber backbone that runs throughout the city. That would cut 6-12 months off deployment, meaning we could get to the showcase phase faster. Additionally, our weather allows year-round deployment of fiber. read more »
Gainesville will push the gigabit broadband envelope FURTHER than anyone:
As the home to a top-tier research university (University of Florida) and its top-tier medical research center (Shands/UF), and the associated local spin-off businesses, Gainesville has the most likely users of next-gen applications. But more importantly we have the people who can create gigabit applications and services. In fact, we already have a long list of gigabit applications that our faculty and businesses are itching to deploy. read more »
Gainesville understands that INNOVATION is the key to our continued success:
Our town-and-gown “collaboratory” lets us transfer the technology from UF’s 150 annual patents into local startups, like cloud music, bandwidth-monster Grooveshark and dozens of others. Gainesville is a leader in green energy, as demonstrated by its first-in-the-nation solar feed-in tariff and its upcoming biomass electric generation plant. We’ve got a track record of forward thinking and doing, just like you. read more »
Thanks for listening. Our collaboratory is ready for testing, showcasing and improving the community network of the future.
xxoo Gainesville
Support is huge...and growing
