Telecommunications Services for Planned Communities
Design Nine offers a comprehensive set of services to builders and developers.
In a competitive telecommunications environment, it is risky to
leave all telecommunications decisions to the incumbent telephone
and cable providers. Many new developments and master planned communities
already provide fully wired homes and fully wired neighborhoods--a comprehensive
telecommunications master plan can make your building project more
competitive and
can also increase the value of your homes and buildings.
Design Nine staff have decades of experience with planned community and
neighborhood networks, and can offer a full range of services,
including:
- Structured wiring specifications
- Cabling for homes and commercial buildings
is now essential infrastructure. Many new homes marketed as "Internet-ready"
actually lack appropriate cabling. Commercial buildings can be
more valuable when appropriate cabling and equipment spaces are
designed in--many architects and engineers still fail to do this
for developers.
- Telecommunications vendor management
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We will review telephone and cable
company contracts, identify potential issues that may affect your
development, and help ensure your development has the appropriate
level of services, not just promises.
- Third party provider management
- In many communities, there are now third
party providers for virtually all telephone and cable services.
A technology master plan for your development will help ensure
that tenants and residents have access to third party providers;
this is especially important in mixed use and commercial developments,
where businesses typically want the option of buying telecom services
from third party providers.
- Future-proofing developments
- Buyers of residential homes in master planned communities and purchasers
of commercial buildings want to know that the telecommunications
infrastructure is in place to accommodate future needs. Technologies
like Voice
over IP (VoIP), point to point videoconferencing, video streaming,
and audio streaming are creating severe demands on the networks
typically provided by the incumbent telephone and cable providers.
Design Nine will develop a telecommunications master plan for
your project that identifies potential future needs and links
those needs to modest investments in infrastructure to make your
project mor attractive to buyers.
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