14 DAY TRIAL // Homes and businesses in Washington D.C. will soon get to communicate over the network at speeds they could never have reached before and at an affordable cost too.
DC-CAN is a 100 Gbps network that delivers affordable “middle-mile” services to government entities and private-sector Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
“As Internet use moves toward video and other data-intensive applications, this network is well positioned to support such next-generation apps without the need for further infrastructure upgrades for at least a decade,” said D.C. Chief Technology Officer Rob Mancini.
“By expanding to an established 100G platform, the District has invested in an efficient and economically viable solution based on proven technology.”
Both homes and businesses will get to enjoy the fast connections as soon as the whole project is complete.
That won't be until 2013, though, since all that has been done, so far, is the first link.
DC-CAN stands for DC Community Access Network and will be supplied to communities east of the Anacostia River.
After that, the reach will gradually extend across the whole district and will provide broadband services to areas of the city where adoption rates are of less than 40%.
“With this 100G connection, we are making history by providing state-of-the-art network capacity that will help create jobs and grow the District’s economy well into the 21st century,” said Mayor Gray.
“DC-CAN will help pave the way for greater broadband adoption across the District of Columbia, and I’m proud that we will be the first city in the United States to make such a forward-thinking investment in crucial technology infrastructure.”
DC-CAN was funded, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, through a grant by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Washington D.C. is now the first city in the US to have a network so fast (ten times faster than current service-provider networks).