Business at the

Speed of Light

Tom Loveland, CEO

• WHO AM I?

• HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND: SO WHAT?

• IT’S NOT EASY

• MARYLAND’S INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY

WHO AM I?

“A real political force.... I’ve never seen anybody go from 0 to 60 so quickly.” − House Majority Leader Kumar Barve

To ensure every American has “access to broadband capability.”

WHAT BALTIMORE TOLD GOOGLE

Health IT Capital of the World

We Don’t Just Consume, We Create

Odds3:1100

HOPING GOOGLE PICKS YOUR CITY

IS NOT A STRATEGY

BROADBAND TASK FORCE

• What do we have?• How can we leverage it?• What are best practices?

HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND:SO WHAT?

Miami-based HomeServe USA, the nation's leading provider of emergency home repair programs, announced today it has grown its staff to 140 employees at the call center it opened last November in East Brainerd.

"We decided on Chattanooga because of the availability of high-quality employees combined with the robust telecommunications and data infrastructure available in the area."

Published March 28th, 2011

HomeServe staff up to 140 employees

Eleutian Technology Opens Spearfish Teaching Center

May 25, 2011 // PIERRE, S.D. – Eleutian Technology officially opened its new Spearfish facility today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The company plans to hire 50 people in the Spearfish area to teach conversational English skills to students in Asian countries via state-of-the-art video teaching technology. 

Saved $7Mannual payroll

(SPEED DEMONSTRATION)

“Today’s broadband will be tomorrow’s

traffic jam, and the need for speed will

persist as new applications and services

gobble up existing bandwidth.”

-- U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Understanding Broadband Demand, 2002

IT’S NOT EASY

U.S. 15th

Oct 2010

Percentage of Homes with Fiber Ultra-fast Broadband by State

History of Electric Power Industry

• 1880’s: Lighting – large cities, commercial establishments, homes of very wealthy

• 1888+: Urban trolley systems• 1900+: Industrial sector• 1910: Homes of common people in cities• 1930’s: Farmers and rural

Just Do It

• Ft. Wayne, Indiana (Verizon)• Lafayette, Louisiana (muni)• Chattanooga, Tennessee (muni, 1G)• Santa Monica, CA (private --> public)

MARYLAND’S INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY

Maryland lands $115M stimulus grant to extend broadband networkFriday, September 17, 2010

One Maryland Broadband

• 10 Gbps

• 1,006 anchor institutions

• Connects every county

• Complete: August 31, 2013

Opportunities

• Shared Services, e.g., PeopleSoft– Municipalities– Businesses

• Application Store• Health IT

• Brainstorm for more…

Extending One Maryland

• Jurisdictions own their portion of the network• Extra strands

• Public-Private Partnerships• Municipal bonds• Contract guarantees• University systems• what else?

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