The Community Fiber Project in which ISOC-NY takes part, is a significant project that could change way the users around the world accesses Internet.
The hope is to spur the development of a number of community-owner fiber initiatives here in NYC -- pilot projects spanning a few square blocks at first. Home run fibers would connect individual businesses and residences back to a common peering location (an open PoP) at which the individual owners (utilizing a condominium-style business model) can choose from any number of commercial ISPs (for access to public internet), IP-based service providers (remote backup, video, etc.) as well as peering with one another at full fiber speed.The goal is to create an ultra-high speed neighborhood network (mini- AN?) wherein the full transit potential of the fiber is made available by default -- both to commercial outfits connecting to the PoP as well as the other individuals and businesses on the network.
This network concept is loosely-based on Ottawa's FTTH initiative and more closely with the New America Foundation's "Homes with Tails" proposal, linked to below -
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/homes_tails
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqRBzjhnLc8
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