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Chattanooga becomes home to 1Gbps internet use, only $350 per month
It pales in comparison to Sigbritt Löthberg’s home internet connection, though it sure makes Comcast’s Extreme 105Mbps broadband package look downright sluggish. EPB Fiber Optics (Chattanooga’s municipally-owned fiber-to-the-premises network) as well as Alcatel-Lucent have teamed up to suggest America’s “fastest” home broadband use — the service which brings 1Gbps (or 1000Mbps, if which strikes you improved without delay to your PC. Best of all, a use is essentially upon sale starting today, as well as each single home as well as commercial operation within EPB’s 600 square-mile, nine-county service area will be means to entrance a network. Oh, as well as in box you’re wondering, this actually isn’t affiliated in any way with Google’s own proposed 1Gbps use, that likely means that this record will only lay in southeast Tennessee for the few months. Still, we listen to this place is a little kind of beautiful in a fall, though make certain you’re cold with the $350 monthly assign before pulling the trigger on the relocation.
Update: Tipster Jens records that he can get the 1Gbps tie for 900 SEK per month in Stockholm, or around $126. Baby stairs, you Americans are receiving. Show full PR textChattanooga Tenn Announces Only 1 Gigabit Broadband Service in U.S. for Both Residential as well as Business Customers
EPB leveraging Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON resolution to suggest the nation’s fastest broadband use
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. as well as PARIS, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ — EPB Fiber Optics, Chattanooga’s municipally-owned fiber-to-the-premises network, as well as Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) currently voiced a usually 1 Gigabit broadband use in the United States for residential as well as business business is now accessible citywide in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
EPB operates the high-speed optical essential element network which today offers services to over 100,000 homes as well as businesses in a civil Chattanooga as well as surrounding rural areas. With a brand-new 1 Gigabit exquisite service charity, Chattanooga offers a fastest broadband service in a nation, as well as is tied with the handful of general communities for fastest in a world.
Powered by Alcatel-Lucent’s gigabit pacifist visual network (GPON) record, Chattanooga’s brand-new network will accommodate speeds of up to 1 gigabit-per-second (Gbps), which is some-more than 200 times faster than a stream national download speed normal. Every home as well as commercial operation within EPB’s 600 square-mile, nine-county use area will be means to access the network, making it a most extensive product of the kind in a United States.
“Chattanooga is light years forward when it comes to on condition that ultra quick broadband,” said Tom Edd Wilson, President as well as CEO of a Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce. “By charity the fastest accessible speeds to a whole community comprising the different population vital in both civic and rural areas, Chattanooga has become the living laboratory for today’s innovations and tomorrow’s companies.”
With EPB as well as Alcatel-Lucent’s announcement of 1 Gigabit service, Chattanooga is right away 10 times faster as well as 10 years forward of FCC’s National Broadband Plan job for 100 Mbps speeds for 260 million households national by 2020.
“This groundbreaking blurb charity creates extensive opportunities for residents and businesses in a segment,” pronounced Harold DePriest, President and CEO of EPB. “With entrance to a fastest broadband speeds in a United States, Chattanooga represents the subsequent frontier in communications technology, with vast intensity for brand-new applications for preparation, party, healthcare, industrial growth as well as some-more.”
“EPB has prolonged been a colonize in deploying fiber solutions, putting a Chattanooga community during a forefront of high-speed, high-tech communications,” pronounced Robert Vrij, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Americas segment. “Alcatel-Lucent has been partial of EPB’s prophesy to move next-generation services as well as applications to Chattanooga from a commencement. That collaboration speaks volumes about a confidence they have in our record, the expertise, our global leadership and our capability to help create a single of the world’s many advanced high-speed broadband access networks.”
Alcatel-Lucent is the worldwide leader in bound broadband entrance, ancillary a largest mass deployments of video, voice as well as data services. Today, a single out of 3 bound broadband subscribers around the world is served by an access network supposing by Alcatel-Lucent. Alcatel-Lucent is concerned in more than 100 fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) projects worldwide, some-more than 85 of that are formed on GPON record. Alcatel-Lucent is the pushing force at the back of a first blurb PON-based 1 Gbps-offerings in the universe – i.e. EPB Chattanooga (US), Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited and ZON Multimedia (Portugal).
To learn more about Chattanooga, Tennessee’s brand-new 1 Gigabit broadband use, gratefully revisit http://www.chattanoogagig.com.
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About EPB’s 100% Fiber Optic Network:
EPB, Chattanooga’s municipal electric application, is regulating the fiber-to-the-home network as the backbone for its Smart Grid that will yield increasing energy trustworthiness, greater operational potency as well as some-more energy management collection for a utility’s electric business.
In further to the Smart Grid functions, the fiber-to-the-home network can also provide communications services to business as well as residential customers, together with really high-speed Internet access, (high-definition) IPTV as well as phone services.
To learn some-more about EPB’s Smart Grid as well as EPB Fiber Optics’ services, gratefully visit: http://www.epb.net as well as http://www.epbfi.com.
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About the Alcatel-Lucent GPON resolution
For a new EPB network, Alcatel-Lucent has deployed the 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager Fiber-to-the-User (ISAM FTTU), 5520 Access Management System (AMS), 7750 Service Router, 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, 5620 Service Aware Manager and 5750 Subscriber Services Controller, along with a OmniSwitch 6850 Ethernet LAN switch. In further, Alcatel-Lucent additionally is on condition that the finish portfolio of professional as well as consulting services.
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris as well as NYSE: ALU) is the devoted transformation partner of use providers, enterprises, vital industries such as invulnerability, energy, healthcare, travel, and governments worldwide, on condition that solutions to deliver voice, data and video information exchange services to end-users. A personality in bound, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP and optics technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the peerless technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, a single of the largest innovation powerhouses in a communications attention. With operations in some-more than 130 countries as well as a most experienced tellurian services organization in the attention, Alcatel-Lucent is a internal partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 15.2 billion in 2009 and is incorporated in France, with senior manager offices located in Paris. For some-more report, visit Alcatel-Lucent upon a Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com, review a ultimate posts on a Alcatel-Lucent blog http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/blog as well as follow us upon Twitter: http://twitter.com/Alcatel_Lucent.
