Stockbridge Enters High-Tech Deal Partnership
CityofStockbridge.com
A Henry County city is going high-tech. WABE's John Lorinc reports.
With a partnership with the Community Broadband company, Stockbridge officials are establishing a major fiber optic network in the area.
The Stockbridge City Council voted in favor of having the Savannah-based company build and run a network that will link Stockbridge’s businesses, government offices, homes, hospitals and schools.
The deal is expected to bring a few dozen jobs to the area and local officials hope it will also boost Stockbridge’s profile in the business world.
“So a guy that’s in Hong Kong could comfortably sit in the city of Stockbridge and have the same connectivity without any lag-time, any kickback or any kind of deflection of the channel and the services that he gets sitting in his own country,” says Stockbridge Mayor Mark Alarcon.
The capacity is expected to be about 100 times faster than most connections.
“At any site, we’ll be able to deliver whatever level of broadband service that particular customer would like to have,” says Community Broadband LLC’s president Allen Davis.
The partnership is work $15 million dollars and Alarcon says it’s a complete private investment.
“There’s not one taxpayer dollar going out to ultimately bring that economic engine here to the city, into the county.”
The project involves more than 200 miles of cable and the plan to have connections made by September 2014.
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