Warwick Broadband Committee
Minutes of meeting September 19, 2016

Present: Tom Wyatt - chair; Andrea Woods; Miryam Williamson - vice chair

Others:  David Young, John Bradford, David Koester, Dawn Magi, Doc
Pruyne, Jim Erviti

Call to order.  The meeting is called to order at 17:10

Minutes approval.  No minutes approved

Demonstration of Solar Winds monitoring software. John Bradford led a
presentation explaining how the software works. He showed us different
towns sectors including individual subscribers. The software allows the
technician to look in on the service being received by each subscriber.

MBI readiness update.  
David Young has completed most of the required documents for Warwick's
application to MBI for approval of $450,000 grant for completion of our
upgrade. Bill Ennen from MBI came up with a contact at Cisco who
drafting an executive summary for Warwick and will check whether they
have equipment that may be useful to Warwick

Implementation of full wireless upgrade/expansion.  
David Koester has started working as an installer trainee. Approximately
$62,000 has been spent on radios for the upgrade work - for 5 GHz, 2.4
GHz and 900 MHz equipment. The new equipment is for sectors serviced by
the cell tower, and not the tower on Mt. Grace. Pole work is ongoing:
modeling, siting and informal hearings.


Next Meeting:  Monday October 17, 5:00 PM

Meeting adjourned: 18:00

Minutes by: Tom Wyatt - revised and approved 10/17/16