Why is Nevada County Connected a middle-mile project?
Without a pre-built infrastructure and wholesale access to bandwidth (called “backhaul”), Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) typically cannot offer reasonable pricing for broadband Internet service to customers. The Nevada County Connected project will build a tower-based wireless infrastructure, then make it and its bandwidth available to local WISPs to provide (what is called) “last-mile” service for both residential and business customers. As an added benefit, the infrastructure will support broadband access for public safety and emergency services, plus provide more cost-effective and faster broadband Internet access to schools, rural health facilities, and regional government offices.
