Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Home on the range where the buffalo roam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mishedlo who wrote (9902)	2/8/2001 7:48:56 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13572

YES! Nortel to lay base for California wired community By Susan Taylor OTTAWA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Construction begins in California this year on a wired community where residents can book golf games, watch their kids in school or work from home over high-speed network gear from Nortel Networks Corp. <NT.N>. Nortel, the world's No. 1 supplier of fiber-optic network equipment, said on Thursday it will supply an initial $5.6 million in equipment for the planned community outside Fresno, creating what it describes as one of the world's most sophisticated wired communities. Nortel will work with Rio Mesa Utility Services LLC to design and install a network for voice, broadcast video and data traffic for the first 500 homes. "The focus of this project is really to deliver the high-performance Internet directly to the homes and businesses within this community," Nortel vice-president Greg Merritt told Reuters. "We're going to do that really through a variety of technologies and obviously will include optical networking and other access technologies." The so-called e-village, expected to eventually include 30,000 homes on a 15,000 acre site, is being designed as a green community where employees can work at nearby Silicon Valley companies from their homes. Planning officials and the California Transportation Department, which are also working on the community design, hope that will reduce traffic, congestion and smog. Nortel will also supply networking software to carriers and service providers, allowing developers to link homes, schools, shopping centers and businesses digitally and offer customized information services. That will allow data-heavy Internet services like video monitoring of day care centers, 24-hour reservations systems for local tennis courts and electronic bulletin boards to promote area events. "We do expect that this is one of what will be an increasing number of these type of communities," Merritt said. Nortel said a report for market researchers Cahners In-Stat estimated that the market to sell network equipment for multi-residential and business communities will be worth $4.8 billion in the United States in 2004. I hope I see more and more of this kind of forward thinking. Greg