What benefits does the plan provide for urban areas?
Many urban areas in Ohio have already developed local rings that consist of fiber-optic cables connecting educational, governmental, health-care and non-profit facilities together to better serve their constituencies. The plan can benefit urban areas by connecting these local rings directly to the OSCnet backbone to provide Internet connectivity or redundancy to institutions already connected to the local rings. Additionally, institutions already connected to the local rings now have direct access to other institutions connected to OSCNet.
