USCCA Interorganizational Alliances

For over 50 years, the United Telecom Council has assisted members world wide who own, manage or provide critical telecommunications and IT systems in support of their core business. This global trade association's purpose is to create a business, regulatory and technological environment in which members will succeed.

The United Telecom Council (UTC) is in a unique position to assist organizations with communication system development and expansion. For more than 50 years, UTC has helped its members enhance and profit from their telecommunications and information technology.

As the global trade association for utilities, pipelines, other critical infrastructure companies and their technology partners, UTC has long supported members with legal and regulatory services. Today, as a result of expanded services, UTC Spectrum Services offers a total solution for all of your communications systems needs.

To build a 21st century community, you need a 21st century telecommunications infrastructure – one that is capable of delivering today's most demanding voice, video and data solutions, as well as emerging business-class services that will be key to your community’s economic prosperity and growth. The most progressive MUNIs are refusing to leave their destiny in the hands of Telcos and MSO's who operate for maximum profit and cherry-pick areas for deployment that will make them the most margin.

Allied Telesyn's broadband IP/Ethernet solutions for voice, video and data give Municipalities the power to bridge the digital divide by offering the most scalable, flexible, and cost-effective voice, video and data infrastructure available in the market today.

Allied Telesyn's end-to-end access solution provides highly reliable, all Ethernet/IP-based Triple Play services by leveraging the power of our environmentally-hardened, carrier-class intelligent Multiservice Access Platforms. Combined with Allied Telesyn's intelligent Multiservice Gateways, switches, routers, and powerful management and provisioning tools, Allied Telesyn's solution brings QoS and IGMP all the way to the edge of your network, without sacrificing OSP flexibility. With a system that can deploy any mix of POTS, ADSL/2+, single/dual strand FTTx, or 10/100 Ethernet, no other vendor has the same level of expertise and experience in deploying voice, video and data in municipalities.

For more information please contact:
Allied Telesyn
19800 North Creek Parkway, Suite 200
Bothell, WA 98011
T: +1.800.424.4284
F: +1.425.481.3895
www.alliedtelesyn.com

Calit2 is conducting research on the future of telecommunications and information technology and how these technologies will transform a range of applications important to the economy and quality of life.

Calit2 is taking ideas beyond theory into practice, accelerating innovation and shortening the time to product development and job creation. Where the university traditionally has focused on education and research, Calit2 extends that focus to include development and deployment of prototype infrastructure for testing new solutions in a real-world context.

Calit2 represents an experiment in inventing the university research environment of the future to continue to fuel innovation in the global economy.

• Builds horizontal links among departments to foster multidisciplinary studies.
• Creates research teams consisting of members who can be located anywhere because of the Internet.
• Supports involvement by faculty, students, industry, government, and community partners.
• Enables prototyping in Calit2 "living laboratories."
• Provides technical professionals as the bridge between academia and industry.

CITI was established to promote the vision of empowering SDSU to take advantage of emerging tools in optical networking, wireless communication, and human-computer interactions through visualization. On behalf of the entire university, it nurtures new technological tools and builds on existing efforts in environmental monitoring, student safety, transportation studies, law enforcement and first responder interaction, homeland security, collaborative education, Internet technologies, and other high interest areas.

CITI activities extend to many sectors of the community (government, business, academia, non-profit organizations, and private citizens) and among different jurisdictions within the region. It focuses on the power of collaboration and shared resources and goals to increase the region’s competitive ability to retain and attract people, businesses, and jobs. The Center is a product of the efforts of the SDSU Visualization Center in community exercise development and participation. Its infrastructure exists in the form of hardware, software, facilities, people, and relationships. Many of these resources were informally gathered through the efforts of the SDSU Viz Center, the SDSU Foundation, and relationships with corporations. Over the past few years SDSU has actively collaborated and established partnerships with other academic and medical institutions, law enforcement and military agencies, local, state and federal governmental agencies, and many high technology corporations.

CITI pursues four major themes which provide framework for the center, and a pathway for diverse projects.
The four themes are:

• Homeland Security
• Natural disaster mitigation and response
• Global sharing of information and collaborative visualizations
• Remote sensing and environmental monitoring

BROADBAND PROPERTIES is the leading source of information on digital and broadband technologies for buildings and communities. Our editorial aims to accelerate the deployment of Fiber-To-The-Home and Fiber-To-The-Premises while keeping readers up to date on the available solutions capable of serving their practical needs.

• BP offers in-depth news, expert insights, and practical know-how on the technical, business, financial, and legal aspects of outfitting properties and communities with broadband solutions.
• With a focus on residential buildings, developments, and municipalities, BP helps the large-scale and wholesale buyers and users of broadband technologies, equipment, and services competitively distinguish their properties and communities in a rapidly changing marketplace.
• BP connects the providers of voice, video, data, security and other services with the top decision-makers and influencers in the "connected community" market.
• Reader segments include real estate developers, property owners and managers, directors of broadband and ancillary services, town planners, public officials, builders, architects, economic development professionals in the public and private sectors, plus executives of utilities and independent telephone companies.
• BP's market information is aimed at our readership of early adopters responsible for a wide variety of multi-dwelling units, high-density buildings, hospitality accommodations, Greenfields, master-planned communities, municipalities, planned unit developments, and new active adult, senior living, and assisted living facilities.
• The magazine reports leading-edge information on FTTH/FTTP and the impact of broadband technologies on the economy, competitiveness, education, distance learning, telemedicine, digital entertainment, and the quality of life.
• As the leading source of information on alternative technologies for property owners and managers, the magazine and its annual Summit Conference have a two-decade-long history of helping buyers secure technology choices beyond the franchise cable companies and incumbent providers. BP remains today the only magazine regularly providing coverage of state-of-the-art developments in advanced access technologies for MDUs and connected communities.
• In BP's pages, readers learn about new technologies and business models, about what other communities and properties are doing to provide connectivity, and how they are financing their buildouts.

The City of Loma Linda was incorporated in 1970, and the medical school has grown into Loma Linda University, a health-science University with Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Allied Health Professions and Public Health. Loma Linda orange groves, once the predominant land use, are giving way to residential developments as the city, with 21,200 residents, continues to grow. At its heart, Loma Linda is a family-oriented community with strong religious and educational ties that stem from its history.

Loma Linda's Conntected Communities initiative is an effort to lead our local high-speed telecommunications and data transmission infrastructures into a new "Connected Communities" environment, taking advantage of the latest technologies to seamlessly connect with other participating communities at the speed of light.

FiberFirst Minnesota exists to facilitate the rapid, nation-leading deployment of Fiber to the Home (FTTH) throughout the state of Minnesota. FiberFirst Minnesota (FFMN) is a public interest, educational non-profit organization dedicated to helping bring world-class bandwidth at the speed of light all the way to the homes and businesses of telecommunications consumers throughout the state of Minnesota.

FFMN and its members and sponsors offer educational conferences and private consulting seminars to bring local and national expertise to interested communities and all potential providers of FTTH.

Advanced telecommunications are becoming increasingly crucial in business and in improving our quality of life. UTOPIA was formed by several Utah cities in response to at least three of their critical telecommunications needs going unmet by private industry.

Advanced telecommunications are becoming increasingly crucial in business and in improving our quality of life. UTOPIA was formed by several Utah cities in response to at least three of their critical telecommunications needs going unmet by private industry:

• Competition and service. Telecommunications infrastructure (copper lines going into homes and businesses) is owned by service provider monopolies. Pricing, programming choice, quality of service, and various business practices dependent on—and benefiting from—the privately owned infrastructure are not being driven by market competition. The absence of competition allows incumbent providers to ignore consumer complaints.
• Ubiquitous deployment. Profitable parts of the state and profitable portions of select cities are currently serviced by some type of broadband connection; however, less profitable communities are ignored by incumbents because they don't provide a sufficient ROI. The resulting digital divide is of concern to the communities, but not to the incumbents.
• Redundant connections. This is a critical issue for smaller rural communities outside the main service-area corridor in Utah. A few years ago, during a construction project, the primary communications line into Box Elder County was severed, leaving businesses as well as residents, with no telecommunications services. When asked repeatedly over the years for a redundant connection, the existing service provider failed to deliver.

After several years of receiving no positive movement on these issues from private sector service providers, 14 Utah municipalities formed a consortium to solve them on their own. The resulting organization, UTOPIA, is governed by an Interlocal Agreement, guided by a unique ideology with specific goals, and is motivated by a one-for-all and all-for-one spirit intent on addressing these problems for their communities.

We're a test, research, and editorial organization. But we do more than that.

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We're also heavily involved in private research on high-end, enterprise-level computing platforms. We specialize in operating systems, high-speed computing platforms, wireless infrastructure (with a grain of salt), availability technologies, and security infrastructure.

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About 70% of our research is for private consumption. Recent work includes technical due diligence, competitive analysis, security testing, as well as our work for organizations like FalconStor and others.

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Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company that specializes in building communities and providing marketplace access through its unparalleled blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive cutting-edge media.

As the foremost integrated media services company, pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide variety of different audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers.