Municipal Broadband Attracts Business While Improving Quality of Life
Anemic broadband meant that residents and businesses of Fairlawn, Ohio, paid more for Internet but got less. To break down the digital divide, this Midwestern city built FairlawnGig, a broadband network to bring fiber to every home and business.
Business Challenge
A $10 million investment over ten years in municipal broadband is paying off handsomely. The city is already attracting more businesses, growing tax revenues, and increasing home values. It gave residents better Internet for less money. And it’s on a path to becoming a smart city. Entirely managed by the city, FairlawnGig is built on the simplicity of Juniper networking.
The Products
The SDN-enabled MX480 Universal Routing Platform offers unprecedented scale for service provider and cloud applications, enabling the delivery of advanced business and residential multi-service edge services. The MX480 Universal Routing Platform delivers 7.5 Tbps of system capacity that supports inline MACsec without performance penalties for 10/40/100 GbE interfaces. It is also a carrier-grade platform with extensive automation capabilities.
The SDN-enabled MX240 Universal Routing Platform delivers unprecedented scale for advanced business and residential multi-service edge applications and services requiring power and space efficiency. The MX240 Universal Routing Platform has 3 Tbps of capacity in a 5 RU, 3 slot chassis, and delivers inline MACsec without performance penalties on 10 GbE, 40 GbE and 100 GbE interfaces.
The EX2300 Ethernet Switch delivers a compact, high-density, cost-effective solution for small network environments where space and power are at a premium.
The SRX300 next-generation firewall connects and secures distributed enterprise locations and consolidates security, SD-WAN, routing, and switching in a small desktop device.
