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Chattanooga mayor credits city utility for bolstering broadband
Chattanooga, Tennessee is considered ahead of the game with multi-gig connectivity, as last year it introduced citywide 25-gig service for consumers and businesses. But how did its broadband initiatives begin?
In an interview with Fierce, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly noted the role local utility and broadband provider EPB has played in enhancing broadband access, adding “it also helps that we’re sitting on a key node, obviously, for fiber in the eastern U.S.”
“Municipal broadband is kind of an unusual animal, and we were the first city to do that, if I’m not mistaken, about 20 years ago,” he said. EPB turned up 1 Gbps service for Chattanooga in 2010, followed by a 10-gig offering in 2015.
To deploy 25-gig, EPB is leveraging Nokia’s 25G PON technology.
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