Santa Monica City Net 100 Gigabit Community Broadband
Promoting economic development and livability with globally competitive broadband.
Digital Inclusion Pilot
One Goal: Gigabit for All
Santa Monica City Council approved funding for our Digital Inclusion Pilot on October 27, 2015. On November 30, 2015, we connected our 1st of 10 affordable housing buildings with 10 Gigabit Broadband!
Broadband
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For Post Production: Download a 40GB Blu-Ray Movie
Estimated Transfer Time
57m
6m
33s
3s
Wavelengths
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For Disaster Recovery: Transfer 2TB Production File to DR Site
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Dark Fiber
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For Network Architecture: Provision Private Dark Fiber Network
Point-To-Point
Ring Network
Mesh Network
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24x7 Network Operations Center
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Static IP Addresses
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Symmetrical Speeds
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On-Site Support
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Customer Portal
The Team
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Gary Carter
Community Broadband Manager
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Kevin Grossi
Broadband Services Intern
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John Meschyan
Broadband Services Engineer
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Omar De Arcos
Broadband Services Intern
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Jamila Haji
Community Services Program Specialist
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Kenneth Bales
Community Broadband Analyst
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Norbert de Lendorff-Koszowicz
Network Construction Assistant
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Our History
Telecom Act of 1996
February 8 1996
1996
Telecom Master Plan
February 24 1998
City of Santa Monica adopts Santa Monica’s Telecommunications Master Plan
1998
INET Construction
2000-2002
City constructs an Institutional Network (INET) for the City, Santa Monica School District, and Santa Monica College utilizing aerial fiber owned by local cable company.
2000
Municipal Network
2003
With telecom cost savings from INET, City initiates Phase I construction of its own underground Fiber Optic Network.
2003
Right of Way Ordinance
July 2004
City adopts a Public Right of Way Ordinance regulating time, plan, and manner of assets in Public Right of Way.
2004
Dark Fiber Leasing
April 25 2006
City starts leasing Dark Fiber to community stakeholders.
2006
Google Fiber Competition
February 10 2010
Google Fiber Think Big with a Gig Competition results in interest from almost 1,100 U.S. Cities
City Network Named
February 16 2010
U.S. Federal Trademark Registered for Santa Monica City Net.
10 Gigabit Network
March 15 2010
Lit Fiber Launched
June 22 2010
City starts offering Lit Fiber to community stakeholders.
2010
Harvard Innovation Award
May 4 2011
Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Top 25 Innovations in Government
InfoWeek Innovation Award
September 7 2011
2011
Pres. Obama Exec Order
June 14, 2012
President Barack Obama signs Executive Order Accelerating Broadband Infrastructure Deployment
GAO Broadband Research
June 27 2012
2012
FHWA Presentation
February 14 2013
Santa Monica City Net presented to FHWA Office of Policy and Federal Working Group on Broadband Infrastructure Deployment on Santa Monica’s unique broadband model.
FHWA Best Practices
May 2013
2013
FCC Comments
August 29 2014
100 Gigabit Upgrade
September 19 2014
Next Century Cities
October 20 2014
2014
POTUS + Broadband
January 2015
Office of the President releases "Community-Based Broadband Solutions" paper
Net Neutrality Passes
February 26 2015
FCC approves Net Neutrality rules, classifies broadband as a utility
10GB Digital Inclusion
November 30, 2015
2015