An Integrated End-to-End Approach iTown's operating objective is to do all the heavy lifting for
its public sector partners. It is organized to provide total
management from the project's initiation to ongoing operational
management of the network once it is deployed. iTown's services
supporting this approach include:
Preliminary Assessment:i
Town prepares an initial network design for local jurisdictions included in the LCPN. Using its proprietary LCPN financial model iTown completes a financial analysis to determine the likelihood that a detailed independent feasibility study will show the project to be viable and worthwhile pursuing further.
Public Sponsor Coordination:i
Town's approach involves participation of multiple local jurisdictions and in some instances state agencies as well. iTown provides all the briefings and materials public officials need to decide on their participation.
Procurement of Independent Feasibility Study Consultants: In consultation with its public partners, i
Town manages the selection of qualified engineering, marketing and financial consultants. The consultants conduct an independent third party review of iTown's proprietary network design, elements of which are patent pending, and prepare a report for use in qualifying for project financing.
Qualification for Financing:i
Town serves as coordinator for the project to work with financial institutions to qualify for and obtain financing required to construct the network and cover the start up costs of the operation.
Implementation Management:i
Town serves as project manager for procuring the resources to complete the detailed construction engineering design and construct the network. It then acts as the overall network implementation manager up to and including network testing for service initiation.
Network Management and Operations:i
Town supplies the ongoing operations and support for the functioning LCPN from the installation of the first customer including:
Operating systems for network and customer management
Business processes for service delivery; customer management and network operation and maintenance
Hiring and training of local staff
Centralized Network Operations Center (NOC)
Marketing and sales support
Recruitment of Service Providers
Administrative support (finance, legal, regulatory, human resource, etc)
Performance of all needed services outside of the local or state jurisdictions for the PPP
Stays current with emerging technologies and changing best practices
Provision of Competitive Retail Services:i
Town ensures that competitive services will be provided to the community. Through a separate retail entity that makes use of the LCPN under the same terms and prices as any other service provider, iTown will offer video, Internet and voice services to residential and business customers.
LCPN Residential and Business Access Services
The LCPN is an ultra-high capacity broadband access network that
can be used to deliver a huge array of services and applications.
This all-in-one digital network provides 100Mbps of capacity for
Internet use, high quality video and HDTV capabilities, voice
services, and other advanced, emerging and new applications.
Naturally, the more services provided over the LCPN the more
efficiently priced it is for end users and service providers.
Service providers can use it to bring their residential and
business customers a wide variety of capabilities such as:
Very high speed Internet access
High Definition Television
Video on demand
Radio and music on demand
Multi-point video conferencing
Interactive entertainment and video game services
Educational, cultural, and distance learning services
Telemedicine, e-health and counseling services
Public safety, security and monitoring services
E-mail, storage, backup and retrieval services
Telecommuting capabilities
Simulation services for training and development
Wireless Internet access connectivity
Emerging and new applications requiring increasing amounts of bandwidth
Service Provider Hosting and Interconnection Services iTown operates an "open access" infrastructure to stimulate
competition and pave the way for future service offerings as
technology evolves. iTown encourages service providers to
interconnect to the LCPN to gain access to any customer the
network serves. We can also provide server storage and other
mutually agreed services to those who desire to move their content
closer to the end user. iTown is eager to have service providers
connect to the network and strives to reduce the technical and
administrative hurdles associated with interconnection that plague
the telecommunications industry.
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Town Competitive Retail Services iTown's retail service provider offers a full range of competitive
services for residential and business customers:
High Speed Internet - The LCPN allows i
Town's retail service provider to offer whatever speeds the local market desires along with e-mail. iTown's active network and managed bandwidth capability provides always on, highly responsive access with symmetrical service capability allowing customers to deliver content as fast as they can receive it from the web.
Video - i
Town's video services are delivered via IPTV, an advanced video technology that lowers the cost of the service and provides unconstrained channel capacity in the LCPN. This allows iTown to tailor a video package for the community that includes traditional channels, premium channels, video-on-demand and local community broadcast needs.
Voice Services -- The all digital LCPN supports voice services delivered using VOIP technology. i
Town's deployment of VOIP allows delivery of traditional voices services and full 911 capabilities as well as unified messaging services. With unified messaging, e-mail and faxes can be converted to voice messages and voice messages can be retrieved via e-mail.
