Execs Share Details on New Iowa Gigabit Network

The latest entity to offer gigabit service is a community owned network in Cedar Falls, Iowa that is managed by Cedar Falls Utilities. That organization also manages municipally-owned electricity, water and natural gas utilities.

The Cedar Falls network is different from gigabit networks in some other communities in that service in most cases can be turned up immediately, said Betty Zeman, marketing manager for Cedar Falls Utilities. “We’re in almost every property in town with an ONT [optical network terminal] already,” she explained. The new Cedar Falls gigabit network traces back to a hybrid-fiber coax network originally constructed in the 1990s with funding raised through a referendum.