Community liaison

12.12.2005

What's an example of that? OneCleveland, an ambitious community-centered initiative to extend gigabit networking and ubiquitous wireless services to hundreds of Cleveland's public-sector agencies and not-for-profits. It connects several hundred thousand end users to a gigabit fiber-optic network. It's a community-owned asset in which we have lit more than 5,000 hot spots for access. Museums and schools are leveraging the most important educational assets in the city. We got 85,000 users connected in two weeks, all in gigabit fiber optic.

What's the next year look like? Over the next 12 to 18 months, Case and OneCleveland, along with our strategic partners, will roll out application services in areas like community [utility] computing, grid technologies for economic development, networked electronic medical records, health care education for middle and high schools, and e-government services.