Since the February 10th announcement [1]by Google to offer ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States, the City of Cleveland is one of many city's responding that will be submitting a Request for Information that's due tomorrow.
Raymond Hurrt the Project Manager for the City's IT Planning & Review Dept. is heading up the process for preparing application.
Lev Gonick CWRU's VP of IT Services commented [2] on the historic aspect of the annoucement and placed it in the context of the larger U. S. Government's National Broadband Plan [3]. CWRU is hosting a Gigabit Breakfast [4]this morning where they will be discussing and demonstrating their Case Connection Zone [5]pilot project. The CWRU project will set out to connect up to 25,000 local residents to a gigabit of internet connectivity.
Back to the City of Cleveland's application -- we've had a slow start in public awareness, but community members can help support the City's bid for a pilot project by nominating the City at the Google site - http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options [6]. It takes about 10-minutes to complete the on-line nomination form.
Also, there are some support sites beginning to be created at -
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[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html
[2] http://blog.case.edu/lev.gonick/2010/02/14/googles_1b_gigabit_fiber_to_the_home_moon_shot
[3] http://www.broadband.gov/
[4] http://gigabitbc.eventbrite.com/
[5] http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2010/03/24/broadbandproject
[6] http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options
[7] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=mf&gid=108671725819294
[8] http://www.clevelandneedsgoogle.com/
[9] http://www.googletwinports.com/
[10] http://pittsburghgoesgoogle.com/
[11] http://www.pdxcommunityfiber.com/why-portland/
[12] http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?page=988
[13] http://www.ci.burlington.vt.us/mayor/google/
[14] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=300695942946
[15] http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/03/google_dangles_ultrafast_broad.html
[16] http://us.hadnews.com/google-fiber-sparks-online-competition-between-cities-nationwide.htm
[17] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2010/tc20100317_550729.htm