Broadband Planning and Development

Broadband has become essential infrastructure for communities, businesses, and local government. Design Nine specializes in fiber and wireless open access and open service networks; we will examine your business and community needs, and will base our recommendations on your community and economic development goals, the local geography, and your budget.

Design Nine provides planned neighborhood developers and builders with a full set of technology advisory services to ensure that your building projects are future-proofed. Fully-cabled homes sell for thousands more, and developers can easily recoup the modest cabling investment through higher home prices.

Broadband connectivity, within an organization (throughout an office or office building) and your broadband connection to the Internet can be significant cost factors. Design Nine provides comprehensive planning, development, and project management services for broadband efforts, backed by decades of staff experience. Our services includes:

• A complete financial engineering analysis for your fiber or wireless project that considers build out costs, operational costs, staffing, maintenance, and operations. Our detailed study shows what can be expected in terms of costs, revenue, and long term income.

• Broadband vendor analysis to help you identify the best Internet access for your organization, business, or community/neighborhood network. We will help you identify the appropriate technologies, including technologies like wireless mesh networks, community broadband fiber, and open access business models.

• Broadband capacity planning for communitywide network and community broadband projects, including fiber and wireless networks.

• Technology and telecommunications assessments to answer the questions, "What do you have now?" and "What will you need in the future?" We will work with you to identify community broadband or business broadband needs.

• Broadband project management, including assistance the bid process for engineering, contractor, and equipment selection, oversight of design/build firms that are installing telecommunications infrastructure for your organization or community, and ongoing network management.

Planning for current and future broadband use saves time and money when a technology-neutral evaluation process is used to link organizational or community goals to specific broadband needs. Design Nine provides an objective, third party analysis of your broadband needs--we do not sell broadband services or network equipment, so we represent your interests, not the interests of vendors.