fourteenth two thousand and thirteen and we're here to celebrate the region's new three hundred plus miles of fiber optic network this is an effort that brings state of the art digital infrastructure to the cape in the islands the south coast and the south shore the open cape network and cape nat are delighted to have you all be part of this day and to thank you for your ongoing support before i get started i just want to take a moment to  the many elected officials who are with us today and if you can feel free to wave as i say your name governor deval patrick thank you very very much for being here and then i just really quickly want to run through some of the many selectman counselors who are here and you don't have to applaud it or oftenest i want to thank our host town born jerry peter maher and don packard for being here i want to thank the chair of the cape and islands i just want to really briefly set the scene here today is an incredibly exciting day and it's a milestone day and for me just speaking for me personally it's a somewhat emotional day that marks the end of a phase that began seven years ago today almost exactly to the day on that june day seven years ago but a hundred people who are incredibly frustrated with not being able to meet their business needs and their professional lives and their community needs because we didn't have infrastructure here met at the cape cod community college and everyone today shared their pain and their frustration and we acknowledged by the end of the day that we just couldn't sit back and wait for someone else to take care of our region very real infrastructure needs we realized that we needed to find solutions to keep our competitive our region competitive and that we all of us needed to work together to make it happen and i remember a couple of moments i stood up in front of everyone in my kind of like little goofy way i wave my hand around and i said ok if if you like your complaint go out go home go home because we're not here to complain we all know things aren't good but if you're here to figure out how to make it work stay because i know that we can and i remember that dan gallagher that day also shared a favorite quote of his something that robert kennedy said quoting an original george bernard shaw line some people see things as they are and say why i dream things that never were and say why not and by the end of that day all of us in that room had become dreamers who were also determined to do ideas began to coalesce and seven years past seven years a blink it was seven years and today those ideas have grown into something very real something constructed and ready to rock the network celebration today is celebrating a network that stretches from provincetown to providence across plymouth and brockton touches thirty seven towns right now leaving the interesting potential of how can that be leveraged in the future it provides real state of the art twenty first century infrastructure to southeastern massachusetts south coast cape cod and the islands and it happened not because any single person did something it happened because we all work together we rose above what we all know we like to squabble among ourselves in this region sometimes right it happens but we rose above them and we work together and with a unified front we created something that people said couldn't be done it's a truly been a cast of thousands and the power of that is amazing and so we now have today running through this region a state of the art open access fiber optic network wow wow this changes everything but i don't first second think that the celebration today means we're done no this really just marks the beginning of an even more exciting phase where we get to figure out all the really cool things we can do with this open access fiber network with this regional asset we just can't decide a barrier and help move our region to the twenty first century in the best way possible with this open access infrastructure we've got a tool in our hands that we can all use to shape our future now lots of people say what does this mean to me what is going to do for me all right and there's no single answer to that today you're going to hear from people who are you starting to use this tool you going to hear what they're doing what things they're creating with it and how they're imagining how we can create tomorrow with it but the really cool thing about this is the answer that question what does it mean for me is with inside all of us it's with inside our communities so how do we do this how do we take this piece of technology and create this what can be so you want to look around you right look at your neighbors look at the people back there and over there right talk to them and learn from them and share with them and listen to them the leverage what they've done let them leverage what you've done and really work together because we're all on the same team and within that is where the magic happens and where we create this because we have what it takes to make this happen we have the knowledge is we have the resource and we had the creativity right here you see i know this to be true and i know this to be true because we are here today together we've done it and i know as we embark on this next stage we're all going to do it together again so with that i'd like to introduce admiral recurrent president of massachusetts maritime academy which i have to say is a pretty awesome four year college and our host for today's event and it is also one of the more than seventy community anchor institutions connected with this network massachusetts maritime academy and if i was any happier i'd have to be twins moment let me explain in a state where we have no gas oil or minerals at a time when massachusetts doesn't make shoes or textiles or clothing anymore we can be justly proud of our most important domestic product brain so massachusetts has the highest percentage of people with a college degree of any of the fifty states and brainpower is the driver of our two of our most important industries higher education and medicine in fact fourth graders and eighth graders in massachusetts have the highest test scores of any of the fifty states and if the bay state was a country our eighth graders would rank third in the world in aptitude for science and math at a time when our sta encouraging young people to pursue more stem fields science technology engineering and math here at m m a people think it's massachusetts maritime it's actually mari maritime academy district here when everybody is pushing stem subjects one hundred percent of our students take calculus hundred percent take chemistry hundred percent take physics oh all of our undergraduate and graduate degrees are in stem fields at a time when our state is rightly concerned about growing our economy with good jobs a good wages even though countrywide fifty percent of last year's college graduating class fifty percent unemployed or underemployed that's do you want skim or whole milk with your grand day cap a gene old latte here our last year's class ninety eight percent employed and the average starting salary seventy four thousand dollars we're hiring we're hiring ph d's from mit and sixty in their kids in their class going out the door make more than that in their first job at a time in our nation when total student loan debt exceeds our total credit card debt a national debate on the question is college worth it well the emphasis has shifted rightly from the rankings in u s news and world report to the rankings in payscale magazine which ranks return on investment in fact william bennett former secretary of education under president reagan put a list out of hundred fifty of the colleges worth going to in america and on that list of the usual suspects mit the harvard the dartmouth the princeton and the yale there is only one public university in all of knowingly and on that list this one return on invest at a time when we must encourage more of our young people to seek high quality higher education to sustain the our economy and we know that seventy five percent of the young people who go to public colleges in the commonwealth stay in the commonwealth to work at a time when access to bandwidth is almost as important as access to affordable higher education i am truly pleased to welcome open kate and kate met here to the biggest and best maritime college in all of america as a business executive has been refuted the commonwealth in numerous ways he funded public education at the highest levels in the history of the commonwealth he has positioned the state as a global leader  biotech bio pharmaceuticals and information technology and as a national leader in clean energy he oversaw the expansion of affordable health care insurance to over ninety eight percent of massachusetts residen administration has accomplished major reforms that actually eluded decades of other elected leaders he would help before in the states pension systems ethics laws in transportation what you may not know is the governor recognized well before the other governors in this country how important broadband use to the economic health of a state in the quality of life but all of its citizens he led the way very early on to expand high speed broadband beyond densely populated areas like boston into rural areas of the commonwealth that were in danger of being left behind in the global economy under governor pat patrick's leadership massachusetts was one of the purse states to pass state legislation making stimulus funds available to br veil ability to under served areas well before the government the federal government that has stepped up and passed the broadband stimulus legislation and billions of dollars of broadband funds to be made available nationwide  he passed a stimulus broad beam program for the state of massachusetts commonwealth of massachusetts actuaries the right terminology in the amount of forty million dollars and so please join me in welcoming one of the earliest most steadfast and persistent supporters of the open network governor deval patrick research for the extraordinary leadership that you have brought to open cape and and keep our eyes on the whole the whole development of this initiative down here admiral thank you for your very warm welcome and your extraordinary leadership we do all of us feel we have to continue to work on helping you get your enthusiasm up because it's just to the whole shyness thing i think with some practice i want to with now is the senate president and and dan one from the members of the legislature we were giggling here alan just among us friends and family about the all the credit that you're giving me for what we have done  what i passed to enable these kinds of investments but it takes a team and i remember the very first time actually i remember when i was first running and getting around and meeting people in the commonwealth in western massachusetts and down the cape and hearing over and over again about the ways in which people felt cut off from the economic mainstream and the mainstream of opportunities here in the commonwealth and the host of ways transportation sometimes education issues and over and over again access to high speed broadband i remember meeting a family out in western massachusetts who described how they would take the kids to do their  homework and sit in the back seat of the family car in the parking lot of the library in the center of town because that was the only hot spot and we talked about this trip the only hot spot for miles in that community and so i came to office very much with in mind how we could as a government do what we could to help incentivize private investment and personal creativity to help bring these resources to under represented  communities and as you well know high speed broadband is necessary in infrastructure in this twenty first century global economy is roads and bridges it's an educational necessity an economic necessity a medical necessity a public commercial indeed a competitive necessity and we can no more forward to have a community without this kind of access and we can afford to have a community without access to a good school or a decent growth for all of these reasons we all of us committed to bring broadband to those under served parts of our commonwealth in two thousand and eight we create created the mass broadband initiative and started investing in conduits fiberoptic cables and wires towers and  ten actually i guess going back even further but with the help of federal and state resources in two thousand and ten i would say the initiatives that we're here to celebrate today really took off to the next level those funds paired with your creativity and stewardship is how we reach today's milestone starting today open cape will provide more than seventy community facilities thirty libraries five colleges and six research institutions and thousands of small and large businesses with reliable fast internet service that means teachers and children for whom educational materials are out of reach families for whom news was once out of reach doctors graphic designers for whom the images were once out of reach will now businesses room customers were once out of reach will now have brand new opportunities we waited a long long time for this and thanks to public investment alongside private investment and partners many of whom are here we don't have to wait anymore and i want to come back to this point about partnership because when we first brought up in a leadership meeting and i think it was one of your early it was right after you became senate president and i remember in this right we first brought up the question of a bond bill to invest in expanded broadband and i will tell you candidly i was remembering the conversation with that family in western massachusetts when i put the question on the table and it was the senate president who said don't forget the case because the issues are the same and they are real and they are pressing and they are a media and it was her partnership and the willingness of the legislature to step up recognizing that we in government cannot and will not and should not presume to solve every problem in everybody's life but that there are things we must do and can do to help people help themselves stepping up and partnering with us i want to thank all the community advocates and local folks and private companies who have all worked together and done a marvelous job to take advantage of ways to leverage these resources and and we thank you for  so much for what you've done to bring us to this point now just to echo what teresa says make the most of it there's still the last mile there's still how we use these resources the point here i is a choice it's a choice and if we make wise choices like these kinds of public investments in private partnership we can expand opportunities here on the cape in the south coast and all around the commonwealth and serve as an example of the role government can play in helping people help themselves i'm honored to be with you today thank  thank you thank you governor patrick has truly wonderful to have you here today and with that build up i want to lead right in to introduce someone who has been making a difference in our region for more than twenty years state senator president three smri of the commonwealth as a whole energy costs financial reform health care reform children's issues and of course economic issues she's long understood our region's need for the same kind of digital infrastructure found in more urban areas and champion and good afternoon we actually had a few laughs about some things i'm i'm going to take credit for some other things but i'm really excited and i think that one of the conversation was people who we have such a great tourism industry here and we sell the ca tourism we have lots of foreign and domestic travel is but they come here and find out they can't get connected so they sit outside the store the few stores in the cape of the libraries in the cape and they do the same thing that their family in the berkshires probably was doing is try to hook up and get to nectar that and anybody here remember the silicon sam we were going to be connected then hanum economy tanked a little bit so it's it's very exciting to see the completion of the broadband infrastructure i still have the silicon sand bar on the wall in my in my constituent office so now we can put this one up instead but this is really a major milestone for per se in massachusetts and and today and so thank you to open cape in cape net for working diligently to implement the fiber optic broadband here and as the governor said we live in a world of comp possibly be imagined without dependence on internet and online connections and more importantly we expect and demand the fastest and most efficient connections in our day to day lives so you know if you have a smartphone or you have an i pad if you computer it's slow you just sit there saying come on come on sometimes i smack mine that's why this mom my third but that's why this broadband infrastructure is going to be such a tremendous asset force in our communities especially here in the cape will finally have open access to reliable communications network like the rest of the state and we need to now consider how we can draw on new companies to our regions and this net new major form of communication will ensure that these businesses no longer feel limited in their development people can actually work on their homes now we have been there are many areas where people have not been able to do that and had to actually go to a physical place so we hope that they'll be more businesses that can be run out of people's homes also and i was going to go into the when we i think it was the recovery and reinvestment act of zero nine that we put the first thirty two million in and but it was a governess idea to put the body up front and i just put a little amendment attached to that five million in for the case that's what we're laughing about  the hurricanes we've had an after the storm we had this winter it's extremely important that our emergency networks be able to connect to this so that will have some more reliable and efficient  connexions the governor visited sandwich with me during the day after the storm and we saw the communication center there they had opened up the sea away building and they had wires pull him down from the ceiling and everyone was trying to connect in the police station  fire couldn't talk so this is going to be so important for that maybe it will result in us not having to have the kind of shelter experience we had also so i'm very pleased to be here i'm glad to see this provincetown to boston today air is one of the largest independent regional airlines in the country serving more than thirty six markets seven hundred thousand passengers a year thousand employees and the company based love as a state senator representing the cape in the islands he's taking a key role working toward economic vibrancy and he has people say he gets it when it comes to the role twenty first century infrastructure plays a sustaining healthy businesses and strong thank you and i want to start off by thanking the governor thanking the senate president and all of my legislative colleagues here for the amazing commitment to making massachusetts a really healthy place to do business a vibrant place to do business and to grow and i'm going to speak as a business guy and a state senator going to take hats on and off as a business person let me just say that everybody thinks an airline they think airplanes and actually as i describe our company to people i say our airline is actually a technology company that happens to fly airplanes if you really look at what we do relative to product placement communicating with our different regions around the world and i guess i'll announce today we're going to be opening a little in montana billings montana we have a hub and grom we have one in the caribbean you can't do that without high speed internet access and without what this brings so i think our company is an example of leveraging that asset of a great public private partnership and what that can mean to all of the citizens and residents of massachusetts and speaking of our other citizens and residents not everybody completely gets it yet i was out a couple of days ago having one of those conversations across the fence with a neighbor and i was trying to explain how excited i was to be here today to announce this and the governor and the senate president and all the dignitaries are going to be here and i went on explaining what this meant what open cable was and how it was going to work and everything and after about five minutes of doing that they looked at me and they said so this means i can get on my interline and get you who i so proud of it and i think this is not a high tech family i just said you know make sure when you do that that you're google's so we still have some educating to do about what this can bring to us i want to single out a couple people because we is here the first money that went to open cave with cape and islands license plate money a grant committee that we were on of the economic development county council back in two thousand and six where this fledgling thing came across our desk and we said well it's probably the silicon sand bar isn't completely there yet but it's probably a good thing for us to give some money to so the original open cape money came out of the economic development council which was funded by cape and islands license plate revenue and fifty thousand dollars was really what allowed open cape to hire the first people so when you talk about the depth of that public private partnership and whether government really is paying attention and getting it and whether we're talking between private and public sector i saw when the north cross wendy you're here somewhere when north cross who is just an amazing c e o of our of our chamber of commerce and our business community it was that collaborative partnership understanding on the public side what the private side needed and then that mutual support using and leveraging the license plate money so i'm proud to have been a part of that our long there are so many people here to thank mary pat flynn is here somewhere she alliance's here bill dart is here are representing the county that license plate money actually county money and you all have to vote on it right that's an important part of what you do so it is thrilling for me to be here but as a private sector and a public sector person celebrating what everybody in this region will benefit from my last pledge is a public official is the coverage that we now have with internet can we do that with cell phone coverage to yeah we'll get there thank you very much everyone's going to come down to this because you know when you when you transition from something to another when you go from we're imagining it we're building or building or building or building it you needed some symbol and now it's real we have the open cave network if you devolves actually the expenditure of over four billion dollars of federal money and that doesn't of course count the state money in the local contributions that have been made this is been a major federal effort to really broaden the scope of broadband broaden the availability of broadband throughout the country massachusetts is lucky enough to have two section initiatives one you've heard about today the open cave network but there's another one and the other one is in western massachusetts it's it's called m b i one two three is the name of the project it's it is and it's actually being led by the mass broadband institute and the director of the breast broad minutes and baird the institute is judy blume on who's sitting in front of me how she was appointed by the governor in two thousand and nine to head the that effort that if it is in western massachusetts it covers over twelve hundred miles it will extend broadband to our hundred twenty communities in massachusetts it is actually a division of massachusetts technology collaborative and it's cool is to provide affordable quality broadband in access throughout western and to do things together and to pleasure to have work with judy to make hopefully make this become a reality and so that being said i'd like to introduce judy and  milestone job well done i feel like those of us who have participated in building these publicly funded open access broadband networks are forever united by this experience this these networks building up these networks are challenging enough and complex even under the best of circumstances and for us we were doing it under three year countdown clock which most folks in the commercial sector said you're doing right and what amount of time network really made possible when you folks know this and you heard it today from a commitment and perseverance individual citizens dedicating thousands of hours of volunteer time to develop a plan to get the political support and to close a very key part of the digital divide here in the commonwealth the m b a i was actually created by governor patrick and the legislature our main focus is on solving the problem out in western mass but we are concerned about the digital divide across massachusetts so the fact that the folks from were taking care of the kids in the islands in the south coast was just a about six months later and getting thirty five million dollars for mass bribery one to three to drain we have used that forty million dollars to catalyze investment from the federal government and private sector forty million has brought in an additional eighty three million dollars of federal funds and over thirty million dollars in private investment so i think that's a pretty good return on the state's investment combined our two networks will be over fifteen hundred miles  a high capacity fiber optics connect over thirteen hundred schools libraries town offices health care centers there's more work to be done as we look to connect the residences and businesses in the really really small towns many of the towns out in western mass population density per square mile of one household per square mile i'm sorry under ten households per square square mile very very  not fantastic we run into that but it's not just about getting residents on line that's very important but the reason this is so important is to spur economic development and job creation in two of the most beautiful sections of the commonwealth but two of the most economically challenged areas as well we have seen in other parts of the country how these gigabit networks can be transformative you all of probably heard about google fiber in kansas city and what's happening there are tech entrepreneurs are flocking to hacker houses in start of villages just to get access to the affordable high speed internet that's available there in tennessee chattanooga tennessee they call themselves  city and they hold pecans again to attract technical entrepreneurs to their to their their cities and that's been very successful with this investment and with these networks this becomes possible here in and in western mass and and twenty ten to build out one hundred twenty three of these networks that when complete we will have across the country one hundred thousand miles of this open access fiber optic network and we will be connecting over twenty thousand schools and libraries and public institutions so this is truly a transfer better help the country and also help us to compete in the in the global economy i look forward to continuing our work in partnership with open cape and cape that so that we can realize the benefits of these transformative new networks so congratulations once again and thank you for inviting alan's going to continue his introduction are you not i'm just going to make him stand up here now and not let him go back and sit down dan gallagher if you're a i'm sure all of you are familiar with the way football works today you have a quarterback and that quarterback he's generally right now he's a guy who knows how to pass the ball down the field he when he got to the twenty yard line in the red zone and so dan was picked up from there but without that last twenty miles there's no school on there's no touchdown and so what dan gallagher dan boardrooms is done is in the in a in a very creative wonderful way is he's put he's put the rest of the team or his back and he's gotten this over the goal line and so i'd like to introduce i'm not sure about the football analogy of caring every one of my back and i have been known as dan too and i've had a desire occasionally to get t shirt made that says not that  i think you've heard the story already in terms of how this network came about number of organizations such as cape cod community college with hole oceanographic institution cape cod technology council all recognizing the issues that they had with their o rganizations got together and spread out looking for a solution for the entire area clearly you've heard all the stories about the caliber of the state the county government and some initial seed money in our hands to get this network started we also had good support at the federal level as well then senator kerry's office in congressman king's office of been critical in getting the project started and with ongoing support so my thanks really goes out to that entire village to put this together all the people who had a hand in formulating the initial idea coalescing that idea into an actionable plan and then executing the plan to get us to the network launch point we're at today we're talking about a network especially being an engineer it's hard not to give some description of the network technology but just suffice it to say that our network technology matches the latest technologies being deployed in fiber network around the world by even the largest operator networks capable of symmetrical connection speeds up to one hundred gigabits per second and that's even without breaking the proverbial sweat in the network internet internet to conduct what is available as well as direct contact between network locations with unprecedented speed and especially network flexibility the reserve fiber that we have and the increases in speed that will come over time with improvements in electronics will make sure that this network is a powerful factor in the area for the next thirty to fifty years  the network isn't all about high speeds and growth potential because the network is not the end it's just a means to an end and the people in the community service other network can play an important role in developing what that end game looks like  most important aspects of this that work in the flexibility of this project is that it's a locally controlled asset there's no large corporate entity that dictates how the network is open cape a set up as a nonprofit with a board of directors who live and work in the community served by the network itself was established specifically to support this network both in its construction and its ongoing operations on top of that as you've also heard this network has an open access network for corman because of the federal money involved in the project which means that any answer can gain access to the network to provide advanced services to the communities schools and businesses that connect to the network advance services could come from positional service providers such as existing online backup services that could be new expansions in the network with a variety of wireless or wired technologies to extend the reach of the physical network advanced services could be expanded sharing of the rich fine arts environment that we have here on the the serving entities could be existing companies that utilize a backbone network in the data center to expand their coverage areas and reach out to new customers or it could be groups of residents who want something unique for their neighborhood new service providers can be formed offer services across the wide area or like i said an individual neighborhood a town an industrial park a commercial development individual towns can share applications and services with other towns to gain efficiencies and economies of scale education materials virtual classrooms can be shared across multiple physical buildings any and all of these are possible with the open gate network we've already seen leaders in the area of new and nontraditional service providers or civil county through the commission is taking a offerings are already contacting us relative to services they would like to offer on the network and through the data center the network brings these enhanced element of performance or reliability and it's a huge attractor for a number of companies even across the start small area where individuals in the service area are also looking at other avenues for unique uses of the network technology councils infrastructure committees a fertile ground for discussion of many of these opportunities and produces the network for expanding our view outside the local area an example of this a certain nonprofit companies are focused on creating next generation internet applications that provide transformative public benefit these are all applications that can use and benefit from this network and bring those new services and again it's very heartening coming to this project and finding a local community support finding individuals out there in these organizations that are saying what can we do to make this different and better utilize the entire network  judy mentioned we do have opportunities to learn and borrow from those who have done other networks similar to these in some cases or community networks municipally owned networks like lafayette louisiana longmont colorado sandy oregon or even up the street here in tau others major movers and shakers like google fiber that offer us different opportunities to look at how we might want to offer different services and transform the area we have our civil networks in new york new england or other such as the massachusetts broadband institute network new hampshire and ocean there's even organizations that have contacted us from well outside the area like merritt networks in michigan that's a network that's been operating since one nine hundred eighty six so there's a lot of commonalities and a lot of things we learned a lot of partnerships we can develop in the future with this open access network we have all the potential out there in the wide array of interested individuals and companies as the c e o of open cape i can't tell you what that was going to look like in ten years or even five years and that we're passes through thirty seven towns and cities with a combined population of almost one million people the future uses of the network will largely be determined by individuals in the region thinking outside the box in their particular industry it health care education government retail eyeteeth public safety manufacturing entertainment or whatever without artificial constraints on bandwidth or crippling policies open capel be act individuals and organizations are defining cutting edge uses of the network as with the inception of this network it will take a village to continue to find the growth and uses of this network and as a local last every  partners our resellers people who have had had a role both in helping us construct the network and have a have a role in here in helping us operate the network but the most important people that i'd like to on behalf of my company staff who who saw met the daily challenges that we face to build this network there would be no open cave network so thank you mike thank you shannon thank you tony thank you sharon thank you judy and thank you bill for the amazing job that you did on and day to day basis to make this a reality thank you very much event and preparing for the mass maritimes use of the fiber optic network which is going to happen thank you add room and we could not ask for more generous support than you've provided say the other thing i'd like to say here for those of you who are fortunate enough to are get her early and be guided by the admiral to see what he refers to is the x most of you know the teresa was one of the earliest supporters of the open kay project and she served on the board of directors of open cape in in a very critical formative stage finally  well i don't want to say bugging you but the way the way he basically made sure that everybody knew every day what this project was about what benefits it was going to produce for the region there were challenges numerous challenges along the way which dan never really got full credit for that he just as he would say just do your job and he was doing his job and contributions i also see many faces here from the various chambers of commerce in the media here in area businesses and obviously representatives of the towns and these people i must say supported the project from day one that they did they said we don't care if this is proven or not you guys you we've had enough contact with you guys we know you know you doing you're going to produce a quality network and we're proud to be your first customer so they obviously saw the advantages a step work the the uniqueness of this network and they chose to jump on board early on so thank you admiral thank you general and thank you otis air force base for being our first customer i should say also that there are many more customers have signed on and will be on board this summer they certainly are not the only customers that we that we brought up even though they were the first and we recognize they'll be meet other customers institutions and others that will wait a while before they jump on board because we all don't want to be really adopt out tuesday oh wait we want to make sure that this is proven that it actually works the way we say it's going to work but i don't think once we've we've passed that testing point that you'll have any problem jumping on board just the way or to say a force did early on and say hey we want to be part of this we want to be part of what makes this region great and we want to be a partner in this network so good those already mentioned the possibilities for the future i don't want to reiterate those other than to say we're still at a very early stage of the of the network in terms of in terms of what's going to happen here will be a lot of innovation they'll be a lot of new ideas we have obviously serious competition through some companies that i'm sure you know about that will be you know be challenging for us to do what we need to do to be successful  expect to hear have our share victories and i share of setbacks future will not always unfold as quickly or smoothly as many as many of us would like as you show me many of you know where the path t success is not always smooth but what i can say is that on behalf of keep net we're in loose for the long haul and we expect to be successful and we're going to do what it takes and all we need is your continuing support of our efforts which i think i can rely on at this point and i think we're going to have something that the that not only our company but the entire region the entire the entire state indeed the entire country will be proud to say we were part of this effort and we're pretty good team back twenty years thirty years and i say this was a great thing that we did thank you very much coordination planning and development and execution of all america will guard and national guard joint staff programs he sure has the preparation of the eighty two hundred soldiers and human of the commonwealth of massachusetts for contingency operations in both federal and state emergencies he really does at otus is actually top secret and if i told you i would have to i'd have to kill you and so what i'd like to do now is introduced to the general to speak on behalf of the of the  i'll be real quick i want to get you out here so you can enjoy the ten minutes of sunlight were allotted today before the rain comes again and al and i would never kill you i'm using today as my jump off point to suck up to you for a job when i retire iraq real quick on behalf of the four thousand men and women in and out of uniform on a massive military reservation thank you for this opportunity you know i'm actually a western mass guy i live in western mass i drive to the cape every day and  drive almost a's and my wife is a schoolteacher and if you are one of these communities that does not have access you are so far behind everybody else everything in education is put on the net or on the or on the the cloud or whatever they're calling it nowadays assignments grades questions for teachers everything so like i said out west or mass we're still using i b m punch cards and things like that journal when it was smart up he's a western mass guy who moved down here a long time ago i probably should have followed his lead a long time ago but for us in the military as specially being guardsman in massachusetts title thirty two it allows us to interact and partner with the public sector private companies a lot so we're really looking forward to we're excited for everyone in the cape southeastern massachusetts for this picking  but the real excitement going to be watching this thing grow and what happens to it and for us in the national guard we've got cyber units and cyber missions that we're looking to bring on line and this gives us a great opportunity to partner with private companies and public sector organizations because the days of the shrinking dollar regardless if you're wearing a uniform or whatever you need to capitalize on redundancy and you need to partner up and take advantage of the the technology and the skill that's out there in massachusetts when you think when it comes to computers you think massachusetts is in washington texas and that maryland virginia area and we're all competing to be number one and with  this is twenty four sided mission with a coast guard air stations twenty four seven mission the intelligence mission we have going on it's a beautiful fit to have this thing mary on top there because quite honestly the lines are blurring and we we  really want to be full partners with everybody that's involved in this so i want to thank the folks from open cape in cape net for letting us be part of this today and enjoy your weekend thank you  very much with two speakers remaining in both of them have something in common and that there they know how to use these network assets and each of them are going to share some very concrete thoughts and ideas about that question we started out with so what does this mean to me what do i do with it so i want to introduce first our game like art is one of open capes founders he's currently chair of the open keyboard and he's the director of computer information services at the process for me this is a really happy day i mean i was one of the people who started on this back in two thousand and six and over seven years of you know trying to get some money trying to figure out what to do going through construction and all were about to get to this point is really amazing and i'm happy for that now that i really want to thank all the people who have to make this happen it could not have happened without the support of all the federal state county local government officials who have already been mentioned to support the flag i also want to thank all of the open cave board members who have put in literally hundreds if not thousands of hours of volunteer time to make this happen all of us have other day jobs and have taken out huge amounts of time to see this happen because we thought it was important for the cape we thought it was important for the for the region when asked to say a little bit about you know why did i get involved in this in my day job is as fraser said the director of computer information services of the woods hole oceanographic institute a part of that job is providing a network connectivity for the institution and for five other scientific research organizations in the woods hole area and one of my concerns has always been how am i going to get enough bandwidth how am i going to get enough reliability redundancy and so forth into this area given the isolation of the cape in terms of modern communications technologies and open cape came along i saw that here was a chance to work with some people to solve this problem once and for all part of our question was the need for speed everybody wants more speed speed never thing but another part of it was the need for redundancy for a while communications multiple high performance connections off of the cape to the rest of the world that wasn't possible previously but now it's up in case it is well the part that drove me was that i wanted to future proof the area and wanted to make sure that we put infrastructure in place that didn't just work for today but work for the things that we would need five years ten years thirty years down the road i don't know what all of that's going to be but i know that with the resources that ha built for open cape that it's going to be possible and furthermore you know one of the things that that i'm excited about is the fact that these aren't just esoteric goals that were met for who are here for advanced research advanced research people this is an infrastructure and capabilities that are available throughout the cape throughout the southeastern massachusetts region so it isn't just about serving the needs of those who have the most exotic requirements right now it's a matter of serving the needs of everybody as i want to do was spend a few minutes talking about trying to stretch your imagination think about what is it that we really talk about that can be done with this network and so the few things that are you know a little bit you know outside the box everybody knows about or hears about you know better bandwidth more more places that you can get connected to how it will help schools education businesses and so forth that in every day situation but let's think beyond the every day let's think a little bit about what is marginally in the future right now but should become every day within a few years one of the things the first example and talk about is this one which is applicable to my institution  telepresence is becoming increasingly use to make the science that is going on on board ships in remote locations around the world available to the scientists that are still here on shore not everybody can go on a ship brought up now thanks to modern technology and so forth everybody can see what is happening on those ships and with open caves we now have the opportunity to take that science  live i definition video and so forth and bring it into schools why not let all the classrooms throughout the region see what's going on in real time this makes science so much more exciting and it doesn't happen just be the oceans i happen to be looking at but let's do it from space let's do it from you know there's a volcanic eruption whatever bring it into the schools this is possible to share this now and give you  little bit of a feeling of what i'm talking about and what it might look like i've got a little video here that i'd like to show you chemistry about the solar system as was alluded you mean people who are studying these issues are looking at fundamental issues that talk about what we are as people what we are and what  performing arts in terms of music before imagine if you have a musician maybe somebody from the boston symphony you know maybe i don't know who comes into a classroom and not just talks and demonstrates his instrument or her instrument the classroom but actually engages the students in a participatory manner so where the students may be playing along with singing along with this person with this person this would not be possible on most network it is possible on the open network because the network was designed to have a really short delay from one point to another one if you don't hear it all involved in music you know the synchronization key to any performance network conventional network kills that synchronization but that or both on the network and they share their performance all kinds of possible of possibilities happen when you have high bandwidth instantaneous communication available to you on a these presentations available to you and there's going to be copyright issues and everything but i'm sure the creative people around you figure out how you how you take care of that extended why not take some of these performances and bring them into our eldercare send us to let's enrich the lives of our senior citizens by using the network to bring the events that happened around our wonderful area into their facilit access to electronic records to video conferences with their doctors local or far away let's let's let's look at ways of bringing using the network to enable in  health in home health care margaret to help people stay in their homes longer all of these things are possible if we choose to do that finally you know in terms of in terms of again medical stuff is let's make let's make sure that the world knows that this region now has a world class communications infrastructure that makes it possible for health care industry to develop and build applications build companies here that will serve this region you know in terms of jobs  many of the issues that we have to deal with the government level involved regional decisions on the cape clearly the whole water management waste water is is a huge issue that has to be dealt with and you know it's difficult to get everybody to agree very to understand the issues but let's use the network to enable region wide meetings rather than having a whole series of meeting in town after town after town let's start to bring to use a network such that we can have you know use the auditorium in high schools or whatever to  good decisions on complex problems need good data in many cases that means lots and lots of measurements from lots and lots of locations we can use the network to help us build a distributed network for monitoring of water quality air quality food see the state of our beaches even road quality so forth and furthermore we can engage our citizens in a citizen science or service and participation model such as that they can use apps on their smartphones and so forth to report measurement we can report pothole you know bus is going to arrive imagine walking up to a restaurant and waving your phone over a sign and finding out what the reviews are in the menus all of that restaurant finding out when the next movie performance all sorts of things when you're walking down the pike that is going down a bike path walking on a nature trail have signs up to let people know what they're saying give them the background of the of of that the wildlife that might be present all this is possible it only takes the imagination only takes some will to make it happen and finally let's not forget the power of open access and local ownership open not constrained by what somebody far away things is the right technology in the rights fees and the right in the right cost for the cable for the region  you know we want new companies to emerge directly offering services on the network companies that can just be enabled by the network let's hope that the next big thing whatever that may be comes out of the case why not we're just escapable as any other place in the world of producing that next great idea and now with the network we can also ensure that when they do that they can grow their business here they don't have to leave to go someplace else in order to grow their company open access also means that local community a group of businesses and so forth can organize themselves who extend the network in places where it may not be today you know open cape cape nat can't fill every single location on the cape in day one we will expand as rapidly as we condominium want network access now people who are out of small shopping center industrial park want access now open caves are allowing people to organize for just kind of the on the connect on the network and expand that and grow that internally as they want this is something that couldn't happen before with traditional now but will happen here and it's how things will grow so i just tried to give you a little summary of things that might be possible trying to stir some imagination and so forth whether or not these things that i talk about you know ever happen or not i hope will i think a lot of them are easier than people might think isn't really important what is important is that people think and people realize that this is a network that they have a say in what happens and how it grows how rich this environment becomes he's dependent upon not just the open not just the effort but the effort of all of you and i certainly hope that you will join with us in making this one of the most successful work in the country thank there are as many answers for that as there are projects going on around the country and author radio blog radio show a consultant to many towns and entities that are going the extra step to extend networks around the country and he has a wealth of information about how we do get there i'm sure he's not going to give us hundreds of examples today but i hope he'll give us a few and i would bet i'll take a bets right now that i think craig's biggest challenge however none of that work and effort is going to mean jack if people don't use the network if they don't subscribe to the network if they don't make it financially sustainable and the only way that you're going to get people to use it to care about it is that they understand what's in it for me as someone said earlier the network is not the end the network is the means to many and so how do you do that are three main areas that i talk to people about when trying to explain what do you want to do with the network five categories for categories of uses if you will and by helping folks understand how others have used the network in those four areas these people understand where the value is and as i mentioned to some folks who are here today and the reception you're going to have to brace yourself for a flood of ideas and a flood of innovation because once the first two examples the floodgates open and there will be right things to do with this network and you will find hours in the day in the week and so forth so you've got to you've got to figure out how do i prime this area  to open up new opportunities i've been doing surveys nationally and run of the issues that comes up when you talk about economic development is the ability for people to start businesses at home  project in a small town in iowa twenty five thousand people and in our national survey twenty five percent of those folks have a want to have a business at home another twenty five percent want to work and commute commute from their home and this is a small town and you can see the other end of town on a clear day and you wouldn't think that this is important but it is but it's also important because that's  next generation of entrepreneurs are coming from from the home from people with a great idea in their spare time finding all these resources on the internet and their ability to do video conferencing to run their business from the cloud to collaborate with other entrepreneurs across the u s is huge and as they grow the tax base the community becomes more stable and the community moves forward the economic impact of broadband is not fully understood but from the many cities that have their own networks similar to open cape they are starting to  talk about and they're talking starting to demonstrate major significant economic advancement now as your constituents understand these four areas as they understand in different parts of the country have become successful in transforming education improving health care delivery in changing how the business of government gets done improving how the business of business gets done  then start to say we want to do that we want to be like kansas city we want to be like chattanooga and the energy starts to grow and the idea is start to math apply and all of a sudden you start to see where this technology can make a difference and i've been writing about open cape sense two thousand and eight and the reason that this community came to my attention over in california is because of friend what's the one thing every network project i have seen that has been successful after they've gone through the process of the brainstorming after they've seen the big picture as they have laid out all of the possibilities and gotten everybody all excited then come back and focus on the main project which their main project was to make their grid their smart grid more effective at delivering electricity and you thought their big thing was all about you know we want to be the first to give it city it was about the smart grid that was what drove them that is what made the initial out of the network financially sustainable in danville it was to virginia it was to attack economic development in oklahoma city the network was a network built to facilitate public safety everyone has primary projects and to give you the answers you need to know the questions to ask to come up with the right answers for you were community to find that one thing that launches that project forward and then when you have ragout that was that was really good and i hope i hope you will come back here again thank you all very much for being here and i look forward to whatever happens next because i know it's going to be even more exciting