SandyNet
WiFi – Enhancements to the WiFi network continue. We have added several new infrastructure improvements over the past month and have upgrades planned for five neighborhoods that will keep us busy for the next month or two. Customer growth is staying steady on the WiFi system.
The tower training and new climbing equipment continues to be put to good use as we add this new infrastructure. Below are some photos of our first climb that we used our new rappelling systems on, this enables us to work much faster for certain tasks on the tower while still maintaining excellent safety.
Rural Wireless – Customer growth is continuing in the rural area, we are still working on ways to increase this growth. We are in the process of making a few administrative changes that will improve scheduling and add some additional marketing opportunities to expand in this area.
Fiber to the Home – We received some updated numbers from contractors but the cost is still just out of reach for hitting the $39.95 target for service. We are in the preliminary phases of discussion with another company that has some very progressive deployment technologies that they say would allow us to realize a significant cost savings. We will probably have an update on this front soon.
Business Fiber – We are in the process of adding a new business fiber customer. Councilor Coleman’s building on Proctor Blvd. should have service within the next few weeks.
IT Department
Virtualization Project – In the past month a lot of optimizations have been made to the virtualization system. We have successfully deployed the technology in one of our officers patrol cars as a test case and it appears to be working well. One of the major benefits of this is we can provide tech support for the officers while they are in the car without them having to drive over to our office, or meet them at the patrol station. The virtual desktop environment allows us to provide remote support wherever and whenever they need it.