nDanville is the broadband fiber network provided by the City of Danville Utilities Department. The nDanville network became operational in late 2005, and was the first municipal open-access, open-services network in the United States. Since then, new customers have been connected steadily, and a major expansion is planned for the summer of 2009.

The nDanville fiber network is also used to support the Utilities Department Smart Grid effort to provide resilient and reliable electric power to businesses and residents, using state-of-the-art Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), and sophisticated substation and power monitoring. Every substation is monitored using fiber connections, and a highly sophisticated outage management system enables the grid operators to quickly diagnose and solve power issues.

 

Key Features of nDanville:

• Owned and operated by the City of Danville Utilities Department.

• A regional network with planned expansion throughout the entire Utilities Department electric service area, which includes not only the City of Danville, but parts of Pittsylvania, Henry, and Halifax counties.

• The nation’s first municipal fiber open-access, open services network.

• Private sector service providers offer all services to businesses and residents.

• Incumbent providers are able to use nDanville facilities to offer services to customers that have been too expensive to reach on their own.

• Fiber services are available in all five business parks in the Danville area.

• Thee historic Downtown Tobacco Warehouse District has fiber availability in office buildings, rental apartments, and condominiums.Area schools have already benefitted from substantial savings by using nDanville to get Gigabit network connections and improved services at lower cost.

• The nDanville Medical Network project has begun to connect a majority of doctor’s offices and medical clinics around the city. The network is already being used by the Danville Regional Medical Center to provide super high speed connectivity to satellite clinics and offices in Danville.

• nDanville will be able to meet or exceed all speed and bandwidth standards and requirements of the proposed Federal broadband stimulus spending bill.

• The network can provide connectivity over its fiber network at any speed or capacity needed by any business interested in the region, including high bandwidth applications like data centers and server farms.

 Source: City of Danville, Danville Utilities