Leviton Takes Fiber Connectivity to the Last Mile in Issaquah Highlands, a Seattle-area Residential Community
■The vision of developer Port Blakely Communities, Issaquah Highlands is an amalgam of advanced design elements – architecture, materials and technologies – to enhance homeowners’ lifestyles and protect their prized Puget Sound environment. From the very beginning, the developer embraced the concept of a total fiber optic community whose citizens could enjoy the benefits of advanced broadband connectivity, e.g., communications, entertainment, information, home automation, etc., today... and in the future. The end result: a centralized fiber optic infrastructure designed with star topography that runs fiber to every division, street and residence.
■As one of the early contributors to the project, Joseph Mouhanna of Cascade Digital, points out: “Since the developer was convinced that (fiber optics) broadband connectivity was the way to go, they agreed to build a fully-equipped Data Center CO.” Gary Haddan, Customer Service Representative for Highlands Fiber Network, explains how that came to be: “From its inception, the vision for Issaquah Highlands, as outlined by Port Blakely Communities and original planner Mike Bookey, was a typical neighborhood with one very atypical feature: the ‘information superhighway’ would run right underneath it. That meant a very comprehensive data center along with a broadband ‘off ramp’ at every home. We now use quite a bit of Leviton product in our data center. Because this community was a connected town from its beginning, we’ve had a lot of time to try out different types of products from different companies. We’ve decided to work with Leviton at the data center end of the network, they do a great job for us.”
■Throughout Issaquah Highlands, “Leviton is providing a true end-to-end Fiber-tothe- Home (FTTH) solution,” according to Chris Lane, President of Lane Communications of Kent, Washington, whose firm oversees the entire Issaquah fiber management effort for the developer.“Leviton products and systems take fiber connectivity all the way from our sophisticated data center to the last mile of the Issaquah communications network, namely, the jack inside the house itself.”Lane points out that this is what sets Leviton apart from traditional hardware and connectivity suppliers who bring fiber optic cable and services to the demarcation point outside of the home. Leviton goes one step further and brings voice and data connectivity inside the home where Leviton’s Structured Media Center (SMC) organizes and distributes services throughout the home.” Lane Communications is currently participating in the neighborhood built by Rainier Homes – two-story 2,900 – 3,700 square foot homes with views of Seattle and Bellevue.
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