City Council voted on August 3rd to take the pilot fiber to the home project to the next City Council business meeting on August 17th for a formal vote. The project will require two readings, one being at th August 17th meeting and the next at the September 7th meeting. The $2.5 million dollar project will extend fiber optics passed 2,000-3,000 homes and businesses in select areas in Danville.
As a result of the July 6th City Council work session meeting, City Council members requested a survey be conducted to gauge the level of interest in the Averett target community. So far, Gamewood Technology Group has received around 20% of their 1,100 postcards back that were sent out to the targeted homes and businesses. Out of those appoximately 220 postcards, 85% were in favor of obtaining service. City Council will discuss more about the project in detail at the August 3rd work session meeting and vote on whether or not to move forward with the 2,000-3,000 home project.
nDanville is envisioned as the means through which the City of Danville can stimulate the local telecommunications market to provide the level of advanced broadband infrastructure and services needed to position the community for economic growth. Danville Utilities proposes to move in a pilot project fashion into the final phase of nDanville, described as “Phase III - Fiber to the Home.” This will involve extending current fiber optic infrastructure to approximately 2,000-3,000 homes inside the City limits.
nDanville has been selected by the Intelligent Community Forum as one of the Smart21 communities for 2010. This international award looks not only at technology but how communities integrate technology into their community and economic development plans. Danville, Virginia's nDanville network was the first municipal open access, open services network in the United States, and has been connecting business customers since 2007.
Our cutting edge nDanville fiber optic network has proven to be very newsworthy. Here is a sampling of the articles that show that nDanville has been noticed throughout the city, the country and worldwide.
