VI. Conclusions and Recommendations

B. Pent-Up Demand


During the timeframe of the CETF project guidelines were released for grants from CASF, USDA-RUS and ARRA. These grants are an excellent opportunity for local ISPs to secure critical funding. With the help of CETF, CSC invested resources educating ISPs and giving them support for applications.

The ISPs will be accountable to the grantees for further followup. They ISPs are also now taking leadership for communication of broadband expansion. As deployment progresses and service providers extend their networks, these commercial business communications will be outside of the scope of the community project.

C. Multiple Build-Out Barriers


In the CSC five-county region, local communities suffer from lack of broadband availability. As already mentioned several times in this report, the key issue for adoption/penetration is to have affordable backhaul in the area. In the view of the region CSC has taken too long and/or has failed to deliver access in a timely and affordable manner. The region is somewhat frustrated and weary, and does not want to hear something which could be perceived as a false promise. Once deployment is planned and on course it will be possible to continue to outreach into the community for greater penetration and adoption.

E. Mapping Engine


All data compiled by CSC that is not subject to confidentially issues will be available to the public through an interactive web-map utilizing an open source GIS server, greatly reducing the cost of implementation. The interactive mapping interface and links to downloads of GIS layers will be maintained by ATCAA for a limited time. The data format for the GIS downloads will be in both ESRI Shapefile format and Google Earth KMZ.

CSC Data Elements: Last update 10/9/09

Data Elements

Source

Scale

Notes

Antenna

FCC, Counties

~ 100ft

Use may be limited

Business Survey

CSC

Approx Street Address

Business locations, ISP provider and customer satisfaction.

CDF towers

CDF

~100ft

Potential future tower locations, use for future BB planning

Cell towers

FCC, Counties

~100ft

May need verification of owner (if possible)

CENIC Backhaul

CENIC

Unknown

Help with identifying middle mile and served areas

Central Offices

Various

Street Address

Also contains businesses served, residents served, address. Can also derive a buffer around each active Central Office to determine preliminary footprint.

Demographics

US Census, Geolytics

Census Block

2009/2014 estimated demographics

Existing Broadband Coverage

CPUC

CBG?

Needs refinement, has some data shift and does not correspond with central office

Fiber routes

CENIC

Unknown

 

Hospitals

Various

Approx Street Address

Data needs verification and categorization of type of medical facility.

Land Cover

USGS

 

Need to define what to analyze from Landcover (public lands, populated areas)

Land use

Counties

 

Not using for analysis at this time

LATA Boundaries

CENIC

 

For reference purpose

Parcel data

All Counties if available

Parcel/Street Address

Mariposa may not exist, will only get APN, not owners,

Population

Geolytics

Census Block

 

Power grid info

PGE

Unknown

Not pursing the power grid from PGE at this time

Public safety/emergency services towers

FCC, Counties

~100 ft

Potentially use for wireless analysis.

Radio

Unknown

FCC

 

Residential Self Select

CSC

Approx Street Address

Mapping of the survey results, will help with First Mile Determination

Residential Phone Survey

CSC

Approx Street Address

Mapping of the survey results, will help with First Mile Determination

Roads

Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, ESRI Streetmap

 

Mariposa may have gaps, use basemap from Web applications except for arterials data for routing of

Schools

Various

Approx Street Address

Some schools were missing from DB

Telco Territories

Various

County

May not be able to publish

Unserved Communities

Geonames/CPUC

Town

Based on information from the BB taskforce

Unserved/Underserved

Various

CBG and Blocks

Areas considered to be underserved/unserved based on information provided by the BB taskforce

Water Towers

TUD, CCWD, Amador Water

 

Potential future tower locations, not really relevant