SandyNet

WiFi – WiFi installs continue to exceed expectations. The popularity of this service is really amazing. Below is a graph that shows the number of installs we have done per month since we started doing them in August through January as of 01/13/12.

Rural Wireless – We have hit a few speed bumps with the rural project that have slowed down installations. The 900 Mhz system that works best for penetrating trees appears to still have some software glitches that need to be worked out by the product manufacturer. For the time being I have made a decision to stop installing customers on this system because I am not satisfied with the performance we can deliver. We are focusing our efforts in the rural area on customers that have line of sight to the towers and can use our other frequencies which are performing very well.

Fiber to the Home – We are moving forward with outreach efforts for the FTTH Pilot Project. Signs have been placed in Cascadia Village and we have started a door to door effort. Sign ups continue to come in, we will have a SandyNet Advisory Board meeting toward the end of January to discuss the results in detail.

Customer Billings –

New office Space – We have partially moved to our new location. There is still a lot of inventory to be moved and a lot of cleaning to do.

IT Department

Virtualization Project – We have deployed virtual desktop infrastructure to a few test users (Scott Lazenby being the first). So far things are working very well. We are ironing out a few kinks but performance is certainly meeting expectations so far.

We also now have a remote access solution in place that will allow our police officers to access the virtual desktop infrastructure from within their patrol cars. This will give them the benefit of having all of the internal network resources from anywhere that their cellular internet connections work (accessing files on the internal servers, printing back at the office, accessing the new records management infrastructure, etc.)