I'm Kyle Boyd with Crown Networking Consultants here in Albany, Georgia. Today I'd like to talk to you about one of Albany's not so known secrets of the telecommunications industry out here, and that's Albany's vast fiber optic infrastructure that we sit on. We are very fortunate to have not only a lot of fiber optic that runs through Albany, Georgia, as far as long hauls run into Florida, running up through the East Coast, but we also have our own municipality water, gas, and light telecommunications division that has decided to put fiber out to the businesses.

That's unheard of. To be able to have that technology right here in our backdoor and to be able to utilize it is incredible. I know I've found a lot of great uses out of it and hopefully here to come and show you a little about it.

The good thing about the fiber optic, you're asking what is it? Well, fiber is technology or cabling that's as thin as your hair, the actual optical glass, and they're as thin as your hair. At one point, you could carry 600,000 simultaneous phone calls off of that one strand of fiber.

So that just tells you, what you can do with that. As far as bandwidth goes, people today, applications and everything's requiring more and more bandwidth. We're a bandwidth‑hungry environment here. With fiber, that allows us the capability to up the speeds on the fly.

With other telecommunications providers in town, their equipment is limited by the copper that's there, but this is fiber and we're able to shoot as fast as you want to go.

It allows you to host your servers or have cloud computing where you can host things off‑site and not have services or your servers housed in house where it's not air condition controlled, dual power feeds, generator... Those facilities allow us to connect with the fiber. We can connect with those facilities you can host those applications or servers in.

It is cost‑effective. It really is. Down that fiber we can run TV. We can run telephone. We can run your data services and your Internet. So it's really a cost‑saver. When you look at it you can keep everything to a centralized point, down that one piece of fiber coming into your place of business.

The goal is one day, hopefully, to get into the houses so we can up the speeds of the houses as well. Then you can actually roll into and you can do your business.

We are very fortunate to have that and I do ask if you have any questions or anything please contact us and see if we can help you. Our number is 229‑317‑7940. We are downtown and you can visit our website at crownnetworking.com.

And remember when your network's down, call Crown.