Core Infrastructure – There was a bit of scare this month with the Clackamas County Fiber. A tree trimmer was apparently a bit careless with his chainsaw and hit the fiber near Orient drive. Fortunately for us the portion of the cable that we are utilizing was not damaged, but Clackamas County did have to send out crews to repair the cable which caused an outage for SandyNet.

This was a perfect example of the importance of redundancy. As the Clackamas county link was taken down for repair, all of our traffic immediately shifted to our secondary connection into Portland which effectively meant no noticeable outage for our customers.

WiFi – We have installed a new test access point that looks promising as an option to continue to grow the WiFi network with high performance at a low cost. Customer growth on the WiFi network is continuing at a steady pace.

Rural Wireless – Growth in the rural area is continuing to stay fairly steady. We are continuing to do targeted marketing in areas that have line of sight to our towers.

Fiber to the Home – We have several companies involved in helping us look at options for the FTTH project. Probably the most interesting of these is a fiber cable manufacturer that is actively working on a design and implementation plan for the entire city. This will allow us to very accurately project the costs of a deployment which will help greatly in securing financing should we pursue an alternative to the i3 agreement.

Business Fiber – We have had interest for several new business customers to connect to SandyNet fiber. Construction on the current extension projects is nearly completed and we anticipate having those new sites online by the end of May or early June.