Connect in Mount Vernon; the Right Bandwidth

Connect in Mount Vernon.  It's the right location, with the right infrastructure, with the right bandwidth to accommodate high technology businesses today.  And tomorrow.

Businesses today are redefining bandwidth as a need and not as a value added service.  Bandwidth is now an essential commodity, in the same category as power, water, sewer, and other services.  In order for businesses to be effective in the information intensive economy, they need bandwidth to be delivered on a redundant fiber-optic infrastructure, which will provides the speed and even more essential the reliability of constant service. 

Fueled by the realized benefits of information, communication, and commerce over the Internet, businesses and residential demand for more flexible, higher speed services are increasing.  The need for additional bandwidth is expected to grow by 400% to 500% per year. 

With this kind of growth, most cities are finding that private providers do not have the incentive to provide the bandwidth necessary for businesses to compete in today's economy or it's not economically feasible for most entities to obtain.  In recognition of this challenge, and in an effort to meet this demand for more bandwidth at a lower price, Mount Vernon has deployed a backbone Fiber Infrastructure, which has the capacity to provide the foundation for business and local economic growth. 

The Fiber Network will provide the foundation for broadband Internet access, VoIp, voice-on-demand (VOD), interactive video, medical imaging, Application Service Provider (ASP) services, Cloud computing and server farm growth.  This Network's advanced architecture will also enable these services to be offered at affordable prices, through the availability of flexible, low cost managed bandwidth services.

Mount Vernon, which is positioned as the hub of the consumer community, is the logical choice for providing these services because we can.  Mount Vernon has invested in a fiber optic infrastructure and technology with the expectation that with the deployment of such technology comes economic development.  The creation of new services and service providers will proliferate, as bandwidth becomes available. 

Mount Vernon has designed the Fiber Network to be an Open Service provider Network (OSPN) system allowing as many service providers as possible, to facilitate fair and open competition, and to provide the community's business and residential customers with the greatest diversity of services available, both now and in the future.

The city has also partnered with the City of Burlington and the Port of Skagit. Through these partnerships Fiber Infrastructure has been built out and will continue to be expanded upon throughout Mount Vernon, Burlington and the Port of Skagit.

Bottom Line?  The City of Mount Vernon is ready, wired and within reach of business today and tomorrow.  Whether you are doing business in the great Pacific Northwest or globally, Mount Vernon is the right choice.

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