Fiber Task Force

The goal of this task force is to identify and foster existing, planned, proposed, and potential optical fiber infrastructure networks and projects within the state that could facilitate the development and deployment of a ubiquitously-available, statewide fiber optic infrastructure, capable of supporting gigabit (and higher) bandwidth to the home, office, or student desktop for the present and the foreseeable future.

The products of this task force will be:

• Identify key technologies that need to be developed to deliver a ubiquitously available gigabit (and higher) bandwidth to homes, campuses, classrooms, and businesses statewide.
• Identify key policy issues that need to be addressed, and obstacles that need to be overcome, to ensure the availability of optical fiber infrastructure to support ubiquitously-available gigabit (and higher) bandwidth.
• Identify the costs of optical fiber deployment in typical California situations -- including first and last mile, and backbone solutions, and develop realistic alternatives to funding and implementing those alternatives.
• Investigate and document technically feasible and affordable optical fiber solutions for cost-effective first, and last mile connectivity.