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Fiberutilities Group (FG) is a professional utilities management company, providing communications connectivity management, planning, building and operating services to clients.

FG provides full operational control of network at the operational, data link level, including monitoring and maintenance of the physical network, as well as providing design, planning and construction services for any new fiber network required. For those clients with higher levels of sophistication FG can provide incremental support services at every layer starting with acquiring network assets (dark fiber) and moving up the value/service chain to full network operation and control.

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Fiberutilities Group provides to the FCC supplemental information about the Interstate Fiber Utility concept (pdf)
January 5, 2010, An Interstate Fiber Utility is a nationwide fiber optic cable infrastructure deployed without electronics (dark fiber) in the national highway system rights of way. It is specifically designed to be leased at the individual fiber strand level by public purpose entities, entrepreneur and business entities, carriers and any other public or private entity for any public or private purpose.

Solving The Bandwidth Problem; Private networks are growing in popularity as a way of circumventing traffic jams.
January 4, 2010, Ed Sperling, editor of several technology trade publications, quotes Scot Eberle, president of Fiberutilities Group in his article posted at Forbes.com.

Fiberutilities Group discusses an Interstate FiberUtility with the Federal Communications Commission head of the broadband task force (pdf)
December 17, 2009, co-founders and fathers of competition, Clark McLeod and H. Brian Thompson, and president of Fiberutilities Group, Scot J. Eberle, met with the Federal Communications Commission head of the broadband task force, Blair Levin, and other staff members of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative in Washington D.C. on Thursday emphasizing the importance of middle mile infrastructure to the National Broadband Plan.

Fiberutilities Group Provides a Practical Review of Broadband Requirements for Healthcare Clinical Applications (pdf)
November 6, 2009, Fiberutilities Group has provided comments in response to FCC questions about broadband requirements for health care applications based on our practical experience working with several healthcare clients.

Fiberutilities Group Comments on FCC National Broadband Public Notice on the Cost Estimates for Connecting Anchor Institutions to Fiber (pdf)
October 28, 2009, Fiberutilities Group has provided comments in response to the FCC National Broadband Public Notice (NBP Public Notice # 12 GN Docket Nos. 09-47, 09-51, and 09-137) based on industry-specific knowledge combined with decades of telecommunications industry experience embodied in Fiberutilities Group.

Fiberutilities Group Provides Expertise in Federal Healthcare Workshop (pdf)
September 16, 2009, Fiberutilities Group President Scot Eberle participated as a telecommunications infrastructure expert in a Federally-sponsored healthcare workshop in Washington D.C. yesterday. Joining industry experts from across both the medical and telecommunications industries, the workshop was designed to identify how to provide robust broadband technologies to rural America, and to the medical sector in particular.

Fiberutilities Group Instrumental in Healthcare Network Success (pdf)
April 16, 2009, Fiberutilities Group LLC, a Cedar Rapids-based professional management company, was credited as being integral to the success of the recently launched HealthNet ConnectT advanced fiber optic healthcare network in Iowa.

Iowa Health System Named Best User of Technology in Iowa 2008 Recipient of TIA Prometheus Award (pdf)
March 04, 2008, Iowa Health System, Iowa's first and largest integrated healthcare system has been awarded the 2008 Prometheus Award for Best User of Technology by the Technology Association of Iowa. Nominated from a broad field of candidates, Iowa Health System earned the Prometheus Award for their deployment of a next-generation fiber optic network connecting multiple healthcare facilities in Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska.

Iowa Health System Selects World Wide Packets To Power Multi-State Medical Health Network (pdf)
April 15, 2007, World Wide Packets, a leading provider of Carrier Ethernet solutions, today announced that Iowa Health System (IHS), Iowa's first and largest integrated healthcare system, has deployed its LightningEdgeŽ platform in the recently completed first phase of its privately owned fiber optic medical health network connecting major medical facilities and data centers throughout Iowa, western Illinois and eastern Nebraska. The health network is one of the largest in existence and marks Iowa Health System's dedication to providing greater care and services to its patients and the communities it serves.

Iowa Health System Deploys Multi-State Medical Health Network (pdf)
March 22, 2007, Iowa Health System, Iowa's first and largest integrated healthcare system, announced completion of the first phase of a privately owned fiber optic medical health network connecting major medical facilities and data centers throughout Iowa, western Illinois and eastern Nebraska.

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