Post by Justin Thyme on Nov 22, 2011 13:02:10 GMT -5
Okay, now that you can download videos and music faster than almost anyone else in the country what are you going to build with your 1GB network?
I'm seeing this pop up in several places today. Here's another go at it with an incubator.
The CPD has an idea of what to do with this bandwidth.
Now I know a lot of you are thinking, "This is just another waste of our taxpayer dollars and its why our electric bills are so high and it won't amount to anything, just like that investment into the VAAP." But I really think this might bring in some very high paying jobs to Chattanooga that will be filled by newcomers to the area who will spend their money and create lower paying jobs for the rest of you.
Of course you could figure out how to take advantage of this high speed network and you could be the one raking in the big bucks.
How will this play out?
'Gig City' searches for Internet geeks in Chattanooga and beyond
Chattanooga officials continued their push to rebrand Chattanooga as "Gig City" with a nationwide talent search for entrepreneurs and students who can create something that takes advantage of the fastest Internet speeds in the United States.
Up to 25 techies will compete for as much as $300,000 in cash and seed capital by building the best application for the city's gigabit Internet speeds, currently available throughout the city.
Called the Gig Tank, the start-up accelerator is similar to the local 48-hour launch program, where entrepreneurs are pushed to flesh out an idea in a short length of time.
Participants in the contest will have access to Chattanooga's gigabit network to test their ideas with real-world users, as well as access to a growing pool of developers, designers and investors.
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I'm seeing this pop up in several places today. Here's another go at it with an incubator.
Startup Tennessee head outlines what entrepreneurs need to thrive in Chattanooga visit
Brock joins The Company Lab as state, local leaders work on jobs push
By Chloé Morrison
Chattanooga has a lot of untapped potential.
“If you can find a way to attract the young, creative minds of this country to enjoy the gig that you have set up and really think about what they could do with that — you will become one of the most robust economies in the South, if not the country,” Michael Burcham, CEO of The Entrepreneur Center in Nashville and leader of Startup Tennessee, said Thursday.
StartUp Tennessee is a public-private partnership intended to support business accelerators in each of the state's nine economic development regions.
There have been a series of announcements in recent months on the state and local level that impact Chattanooga and aim to boost the economy, create jobs and promote entrepreneurs.
Last month, local leaders dubbed Chattanooga “Gig City,” and announced a program that offers big prizes to the entrepreneur who comes up with the best business idea that utilizes Chattanooga’s unique, high-speed Internet capabilities.
The Company Lab, which already promotes start-up businesses in Chattanooga, also recently announced it received a $250,000 grant from the state, in addition to being named one of Tennessee’s nine regional entrepreneurial accelerators.
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The CPD has an idea of what to do with this bandwidth.
Gigabit Cops
One day, a group of officials in Chattanooga, Tennessee, got an idea. They were going to go down to the Tennessee riverfront and count ducks. Depending on your interest in ducks, this could be interpreted as a wasteful venture. But for Chattanooga, it was a crucial test of a growing set of tools that are dramatically changing operations and public safety in the city.
In September 2010, Chattanooga launched a citywide fiber optic gigabit network and it’s since been figuring out ways to use this super fast internet connection. The duck counting exercise was a test of the system’s capabilities. Using the high speed network, security cameras and servers, they could instantly analyze a live video feed of ducks swimming up and down the river. If the system could identify ducks, the thinking went, it could also presumably identify people, and alert police when, say, a group of five or more people are congregating in a dark alley or doing other suspicious activities. But that’s just the start.
The city’s chief information officer, Mark Keil, says the gigabit network was installed last year by the local utility company to create a "smart grid," wired and able to better control resources and prevent outages. It has since spread to about 178,000 homes and businesses, as well as city departments.
“Now it’s up to us to figure out what I call ‘the meaning of life,’” Keil says. “Why are we doing this?”
He says it’s different for each department, but the most notable developments to make use of the gigabit network have been in public safety. Sergeant Charlie Brown of the Chattanooga Police Department says the network has dramatically changed the way the department functions.
“When I started this 20 years ago you had a radio and that’s it,” Brown says. “When you really needed real-time information, it wasn’t really real-time.”
Now it is. Each patrol car is equipped to receive high-speed mobile Internet access, allowing maps and crime scene information to be passed between headquarters and officers quickly, and even allowing live video streaming from squad car cameras and security cameras placed throughout the city.
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Now I know a lot of you are thinking, "This is just another waste of our taxpayer dollars and its why our electric bills are so high and it won't amount to anything, just like that investment into the VAAP." But I really think this might bring in some very high paying jobs to Chattanooga that will be filled by newcomers to the area who will spend their money and create lower paying jobs for the rest of you.
Of course you could figure out how to take advantage of this high speed network and you could be the one raking in the big bucks.
How will this play out?