PPT Slide
- A City-Wide High Performance Digital Infrastructure -- Always On, Always Available - New Applications, Services, Deployed Faster
- Policy Development: e.g., Minimize Street Trenching, Provide Greater Access for All Parts of the City - More Fiber in More Places Faster
- CivicNet Requirements, Definition, Planning Oriented to Backbone Infrastructure, with Gateways to Tributary Systems
- City Agency and Intra-Agency Coordination, Communication
- Ubiquitous, Pervasive NGI: 1,600 Locations
- Foundation=Existing Agency Fiber Plant/Conduit, Rights-of-Way
- Dev. Of Anchor Tenant Concept: Additional Stakeholder Partnerships, e.g., Illinois Century Network, Corporations, Retail Broadband Incs, etc.
- Multi-Year Financial Model Based on Committed Funding
- Reasonable Cost Structure; Economically Viable - Near and Long Term, - Public/Private Partnership (City Will Not Be Provider)
- National, Global Connectivity -- e.g., Chicago - Specialized B2B Link