Bridging the Digital Divide
The EBBC was formed to close the gaps in broadband infrastructure and access and advance the region as a center of innovation for advanced communications technologies.
Upcoming Events
July 27, 2012 in Contra Costa County
October 26, 2012 in Solano County
Documents
EBBC Action Plan
The EBBC is an East Bay regional initiative organized to improve broadband deployment, access, and adoption in the East Bay.
EBBC Work Plan
Three year work plan by quarter.
Broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of the early 21st century.
Senate Bill No. 1040
Telecommunications universal service programs: California Advanced Services Fund.
Order Instituting Rulemaking to Consider
Modifications to the CASF Including Those Necessary
to Implement Loan Program and Other
Provisions of Recent Legislation.
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the presentations and documents in PDF form from
the First Roundtable
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the presentations and documents in PDF form from
the Second Roundtable
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for the Roundtable Three presentations and
documents from the Third Roundatble
Click on the Events link above
for the Summit presentations - the Broadband Rating PowerPoint presentation and the Maps
discussed at the Summit are viewable on the new
Maps page.
Notable Quotes
“We talk about the ‘Facebook of Things’…There are far more things on the planet that could be communicating over the Internet than there are people.”
Bill Ruh
GE’s Global Technology Director
“…the cloud presents three resources and they are growing at different speeds: Storage - bytes/costs is doubling every year; Processor - flops/cost is doubling every 1.5 years; Network - bandwidth/cost is doubling every 2.5 years.”
Lit San Leandro
“(Broadband) is enabling entire new industries and unlocking vast new possibilities for existing ones. It is changing how we educate children, deliver health care, manage energy, ensure public safety, engage government, and access, organize and disseminate knowledge.”
Federal Communications Commission
National Broadband Plan
“Three years or so ago the widely circulated rumor was that (Google) had approximately 450,000 servers, and my guess is that this number may well have tripled, if not quadrupled, since then.”
Ulf Wolf
digitalcommunities.com