Community Owned Open Access Fiber and Wireless Network in Virginia
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/community-owned-open-access-fiber-and-wireless-network-virginia/The Wired Road has begun operations, bringing an open services, fiber to the home and wireless network to the community. The network is owned by a partnership among local government, making the network accountable to the communities it is serving.
The regional network is the largest integrated fiber and wireless open access, open services municipal network in the United States, and the high performance network will eventually provide services across more than 1,000 square miles of mountainous terrain in southwest Virginia.
