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Danville’s Fiber Optic Network Used as Example for Economic Growth in Other Cities

Justin Ward
WDBJ7 Reporter
1:00 p.m. EST, November 8, 2012

DANVILLE, Va.—
Technology gurus have invaded Southern Virginia. They’re using Danville’s fiber optic broadband network as an example for the rest of the country to follow.

If it’s got wires, flashes, can plug into a gadget, and can attract a business chances are the broadband industry folks in Danville this week are interested.

“I look at broadband networks as modern day railroad tracks transferring the goods and services as a modern day railroad does. Those goods and services have now been digitized, and are being transferred throughout the community, throughout the country, throughout the world,” said Jeff Reiman, a broadband specialist.

For three days The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research is the broadband Mecca of America.

All things dealing with Internet speed, connectivity, anything that passes through hundreds of small fiber optic wires are centered in the ‘comeback’ city.

At least that’s what Broadband Communities magazine nicknamed Danville.   Click here to watch video.

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Nevada Broadband Telemedicine Initiative

Nevada Hospital Association
NHA Awarded $19.6 Million Broadband Grant

January 2011

The Broadband Group and its partners were selected by the Nevada Hospital Association (NHA) to create, and now administer, Nevada’s next generation Statewide Telemedicine Network. After securing $19.6 million from the Federal Broadband Stimulus BTOP program, and an additional $7.2 million in private matching funds, TBG created e-Care Nevada, a sub-recipient of the Grant, to build a network that enables hospitals throughout the state with: (more…)

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City of Las Vegas: Symphony Park Announcement

Las Vegas, NV – The Broadband Group, a national Telecommunications Consulting Firm announced today it has been selected by Newland Communities, Symphony Park development manager for the city of Las Vegas, to direct, lead and manage the telecommunications, telemetry, energy and system control elements of the mixed use development in Las Vegas. The city of Las Vegas and Newland Communities are currently developing Symphony Park, a 61- acre mixed-use urban community located in the heart of downtown Las Vegas. At Symphony Park, sustainability is a guiding principle for the plan and development overall. Symphony Park was chosen as the only Nevada community to be part of the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED®-ND) green building rating system. The community has been awarded Gold certification status under stage 2 by LEED®-ND. (more…)

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Symphony Park Certified as LEED Gold Under Stage 2 in the LEED® – ND Pilot

LAS VEGAS – Symphony Park, a $6 billion, 11-million-square-foot, mixed-use project under development in the heart of downtown Las Vegas on land owned by the City of Las Vegas, has been awarded Gold certification status under stage 2 by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), through their LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building rating system. (more…)

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Fiber Hits Home

Builder Magazine | January 1, 2005 print edition | Steve Zurier A STRING OF EVENTS DURING THE SECOND half of 2004 created a hopeful climate that led home technology partisans…

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