{"id":653576,"date":"2013-04-21T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=8518"},"modified":"2013-04-21T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T16:20:24","slug":"national-broadband-asset-map-from-connected-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653576","title":{"rendered":"National Broadband Asset Map from Connected Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connected Nation has developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/cnx.io\/\">national broadband asset map<\/a>. Here\u2019s a description from an email received from them\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>CNX\u00a0is aggregating the nation\u2019s assets to create an exchange, or marketplace, to bring together asset owners with those companies that need access to towers, rooftops, utility poles, and other real estate to expand broadband networks. CNX is\u00a0streamlining site identification, acquisition, and transactions critical to the expansion of fiber, fixed wireless, and mobile broadband services.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in the real estate market, the CNX exchange allows public and private owners of assets (rooftops, steeples, real estate, towers, utility poles, dark fiber, Rights of Way) to represent those assets on an interactive and searchable national map.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And according to the website, the <i>CNX Map includes:<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Network data from more than 2,500 broadband providers;<\/li>\n<li>Publicly-owned assets at nearly 300,000 locations;<\/li>\n<li>FCC \u00a0registered tower sites inclusive of 125,000 + assets;<\/li>\n<li>124,000 + schools;<\/li>\n<li>21,000 + libraries;<\/li>\n<li>38,000 + medial facilities<\/li>\n<li>52,000 + public safety locations<\/li>\n<li>33,000 + local government operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This sounds like a tool that would be helpful to communities, providers and the Broadband Development Office if that <a href=\"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/2013\/03\/18\/minnesota-office-of-broadband-development-bills-hf1255-sf1128\/\">bill should pass in Minnesota<\/a>. Although it also seems like information a State entity might want to gather themselves to provide to Minnesota residents, businesses and communities. One of the advantages touted on the website is public-private partnership and to that end, maybe it makes more sense to have the private sector expend resources to maintain this information.<\/p>\n<p>When I first read the information I was reminded of the fiber database, which would track (among other things) future construction plans so that broadband providers\/builders could plan to deploy fiber around existing plans to minimize cost, construction and inconvenience \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t sound as if that is a part of this database. This sounds more like an inventory of real estate assets, as they explain.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/8518\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/8518\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blandinonbroadband.org&#038;blog=785113&#038;%23038;post=8518&#038;%23038;subd=blandinonbroadband&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connected Nation has developed a national broadband asset map. Here\u2019s a description from an email received from them\u2026 CNX\u00a0is aggregating the nation\u2019s assets to create an exchange, or marketplace, to bring together asset owners with those companies that need access to towers, rooftops, utility poles, and other real estate to expand broadband networks. CNX is\u00a0streamlining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}