Universally exists, greatly exceeds “fair” quality standards or otherwise greatly exceeds “fair” standards. Available Abundant Reliable Affordable Sustainable DSL Good Generally available. Availability limited by distance from DSLAM. ADSL is a very poor broadband solution. VDSL within reasonable distance of a DSLAM is a good broadband solution. Fair Generally reliable when DSLAM has path diverse and redundant connections. Fair to Poor Monthly costs are generally good. Cost per Mbps is poor. Excellent Uses existing twisted pair infrastructure. Fixed Wireless Good Generally available. Availability limited by line of issues and distance from tower sites. Good Poor Reliability suffers from congestion on aggregation points and service degradation resultant from weather conditions. Fair Monthly costs are generally good. Cost per Mbps is poor. Wireless services typically have the highest cost per Mbps of last mile solutions. Good Relatively low cost deployment. Cable Poor Available in some more dense areas. Not usually available in rural areas. Good Fair Capacity is often degraded by over-subscription at hub sites. Reliability suffers from shortcomings in broadcast network design Good Poor New deployments are capital intensive and unlikely. Deployments on existing infrastructure are reasonably easy. Poor. Very little last mile exists in the south central Colorado area. Excellent Good Only if designed for redundancy. Where fiber to the premises has been deployed, monthly costs are very good to excellent. In particular, the cost per Mbps is excellent. Fair High cost to deploy but once it is in place fiber has a long expected life cycle and low operating costs.
Other Fair Satellite service is generally available. Cellular broadband is reasonably available. Some other technologies may also be available. Other technologies are poor to very poor broadband solutions. Poor Service is affected by weather, congestion, and other conditions. Poor broadband solutions usually have high prices compared with traditional last mile technologies. Fair Most other technologies are at constant risk of being superseded by more traditional solutions. : Last Mile Technology Summary
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With shared infrastructure comes some degree of shared operations and maintenance. By and large, we anticipate each network owner will be responsible for the operations and maintenance of their individual networks. Public sector entities who implement networks but do not have operations and maintenance capabilities can contract with existing private sector network owners or with a third party operations and maintenance organization. In the Next Year To accomplish the proposed solution, we recommend that in the next year the region establish a team to move the strategy forward. This is likely the team that will be appointed by the COG in the first quarter of 2017. That team should immediately begin in depth consultations with the various network owners and potential network owners in the region. The purpose of these consultations is to establish the intended organizational structure. With an organizational structure established negotiations for shared infrastructure usage should be possible. The next step is to formalize network standards and wholesale contracts. This should allow for the first wholesale-retail split subscribers. These will only be between private sector network owners in the first year as the public sector has yet to build infrastructure. In time for the odd-year election cycle, the team should establish if the organizational structure needs to come to a vote. The team should also establish the scope of one or more SB 152 overrides. Simultaneously to developing an organizational structure and preparing SB 152 overrides, the public sector participants must establish a financing plan. The plan may be dependent on the SB 152 overrides or it may require a publicly established organizational structure. Financing may require a vote. Expediency may drive all required votes onto a single ballot or may force votes to separate ballots. The team should decide the best path to electoral success but should then be ready to e flexible. In the first year, the following should be complete: Organizing team in place organizational structure defined and implemented Shared infrastructure standards and contracts agreed to