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Washington State

NOANET - Northwest Open Access Network
Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) is a nonprofit corporation that has licensed fiber optic cables from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and other sources to create a carrier-class Data and TDM network for the Utilities and rural communities in the Pacific Northwest.

Grant County's Z ippNet
The ZIPP fiber optic network offers the citizens of Grant County more choices for cable TV, Internet, telephone and broadband service providers. ZIPP creates new options for existing Grant County businesses and offers attractive incentives to new companies seeking to grow their business and families in a community with our quality of life. Offers incredible 100mb optical Ethernet connections to each home and business for around $50 per month.

Tacoma Wired
The City of Tacoma has launched a new economic development campaign emphasizing its status as America's #1 most "wired city." Tacoma succeeded in building the first major municipal broadband network in the U.S.

Chelan Public Utility District
Chelan County PUD Networks is building a public fiber-optic network to upgrade utility communications and share the benefit of the technology investment with our customer/owners.

Douglas Public Utility District
The Douglas County Community Network (DCCN) is a high-speed, broadband fiber-optic telecommunications infrastructure originally designed for utility functions. The same fibers used to control the District's electric system, however, have the capacity to transport additional information for government, educational institutions, businesses, and citizens of Douglas County. In making this excess capacity available, the District is able to provide public officials, students, residents and business leaders with connections to one of the fastest information exchange systems in the country.

Kitsap Public Utility District
Kitsap County PUD joined its new 82-mile OC-48 WDM backbone to NOANET in July of 2002. KPUD is in the process of deploying trials in residential and business districts in serveral Kitsap municipalities.

Benton Public Utility District
Benton PUD is moving forward to develop Broadband. It wasn't long ago, rural communities were disadvantaged because they were unable to get electricity and the large companies were not willing to provide electrical service to rural areas because of the expense. Rural areas need broadband telecommunications services to keep pace with today's high-speed digital world just like they needed electricity 60 years ago.

Clallam Public Utility District
Clallam County PUD has built a fiber optic broadband network from Port Angeles to Sequim and will soon conduct its first pilot study in the Sequim area. The area covers approximately 20 square blocks, between 5th Ave. & Sequim Ave. and Fir & Washington.

Okanogan Public Utility District
Okanogan PUD is building a fiber optic network backbone to provide a wide variety of data services for the District and our community. When completed, this backbone will stretch from the Columbia River junction in Brewster to the Canadian border.

Pend Oreille
Pend Oreille PUD recently completed the installation of its fiber optic line from Newport to Spokane, the final leg of its 125-mile fiber optic route between the Canadian border and Spokane. Currently, the optical equipment necessary to lite the fiber has been installed in two of the four substations. The entire Community Network System is expected to be operational by the end of 2002.

United States

American Public Power Association - APPA
It was not long ago that fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology was deemed too expensive and hybrid fiber-coax was the choice of many. But now prices for FTTH technologies have dropped and the number of vendors has increased. Public power utilities looking to offer broadband services say there is no reason to install a hybrid-fiber coax (HFC) system when they are eventually going to have to replace it with a full fiber network.

Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance
The EFMA promotes standards based Ethernet in the First Mile technology and encourages the utilization and implementation of Ethernet in the First Mile as a key networking technology for local subscriber access networks.

Fiber to the Home Council
an association of companies comprising telecommunications, computing, networking, applications, and content and service providers. Our mission is to educate, promote, and accelerate FTTH and the resulting quality-of-life enhancements.

10GEA - 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
Industry association to introduce accelerate introduction of 10 gigabit ethernet technology.

IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD (ETHERNET)
IEEE 802.3 Working Group develops standards for CSMA/CD (Ethernet) based LANs

International

Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization
CANARIE's mission is to accelerate Canada's advanced Internet development and use by facilitating the widespread adoption of faster, more efficient networks and by enabling the next generation of advanced products, applications and services to run on them.