Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City is seeking a Partner willing to deliver a best‐in‐class technical approach. Respondents are urged to consider fully fiber‐based architectures providing long‐term scalability and reliability. It is important for broadband service to extend to new residents and businesses as the City continues to grow in population, and the network design and implementation should take these growth factors into consideration. The following baseline technical attributes are preferred: Fully fiber‐based connectivity to residential and business customers alike; Fiber strand capacity capable of providing direct homerun connections to businesses and residential “power” users; (proposals should include the provider’s definition of “power user” that would qualify for a direct homerun connection as well as the maximum allowed customer per strand ratio of regular residential users.) Fiber strand capacity and physical architecture (e.g., handhole placement, backbone routes, etc.) anticipating full deployment to all homes and businesses; Low latency to reduce the number of hops to the Internet backbone; Backbone topology capable of supporting connections over diverse paths from one or more central hub locations to fiber distribution cabinets distributed throughout the City to facilitate high‐availability service offerings;
