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Description:

Cape Cod and the Southeastern Massachusetts Region have inadequate communications infrastructure in both backhaul transport and “last mile” access options. OpenCape Corporation will create and operate a regional wholesale digital backhaul communications network (TRANSPORT network). This network will provide reliable, redundant, and secure backhaul communications for public and commercial access networks on Cape Cod and the Islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The network will support open access and promote competition. It will provide access directly to emergency evacuation sites, school districts, municipal governments, public health facilities, and libraries. The network will also support business and residential access, to be provided by WISPs.

Learn More:

Cape Cod Technology Council
http://www.opencape.com/

Wireless Philadelphia Executive Committee (2005). Business Model Analysis (p. 30-34). Wireless Philadelphia Business Plan. February 9, 2005. http://www.phila.gov/wireless/pdfs/Wireless-Phila-Business-Plan-040305-1...

International Network of E-Communities (INEC) (2006). INEC Declaration
on Open Networks. Stockholm, Sweden. November 2006.
www.oplan.org/documents/articles/inec-declaration-on-open-networks/fss_d...
The INEC Declaration on Open Networks lays out 10 principals for the
best-possible design of open broadband networks. The principles address
issues including: network ownership, the definition of “open”, the role
of government, network neutrality, and broadband speed. A number of
organizations, municipalities, and communities have signed on to these