Future-Proofing the World’s Fastest Internet: Why EPB Took the Leap to 25 Gig

Presenter: Katie Espeseth, Vice President of New Products, EPB

Moderator: Gary Bolton, President and CEO, Fiber Broadband Association

This summer, Chattanooga’s municipal utility EPB re-affirmed the city’s reputation as Gig City by launching the world’s first community-wide 25 Gig internet service. Committed to keeping its community on the cutting edge, EPB recognized the opportunity to establish a network that removed bandwidth constraints for local and prospective businesses that require hundreds or thousands of streaming devices. While 25 Gig is still on the frontier of connectivity needs for most customers, adding the service now future-proofs EPB’s fiber optic network so it’s ready whenever customers need more bandwidth. EPB Vice President of New Products Katie Espeseth helped lead EPB into fiber with the 2010 launch of America’s world’s fastest community-wide, symmetrical internet service delivered over a 100% fiber optic network and, in 2015, the expansion to 10 Gig service. Katie will share EPB’s rationale for offering 25 Gig service now, the benefits it’s expected to provide the community and work to prepare the first 25 Gig customer, the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Convention Center.

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