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In new interview for The Colorado Trust, a Health Equity Foundation, FORETHOUGHT.net says reliable rural broadband is “as important as electricity. http://www.coloradotrust.org/content/story/important-electricity The mission of FORETHOUGHT.net is to bridge the “digital divide” and ensure that all Coloradans have access to high quality, fast, and reliable broadband. It’s not just for watching videos. For some people, it’s a matter of whether they have access to life-saving medical advice. We are advancing projects in many rural Colorado communities. This year, we started by bringing Silverton out of the “digital desert” with fiber-backed coax broadband. Next up are the towns of Leadville and Redcliff Colorado, which are going to get 25Mbps and up wireless LTE broadband. We are upgrading 400 homes in Gypsum, Colorado, to gigabit fiber to the home. We are building gigabit fiber to the home broadband in Avon, Colorado. The list of projects under way is long, and growing. With… read more →

Read about FORETHOUGHT.net efforts in Silverton, CO in the Durango Herald. http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20160916/NEWS01/160919674/-1/    

FORETHOUGHT.net goes live in Silverton, CO with up to 100Mbps lightning-fast Internet. Nice write-up about our efforts in rural Colorado communities, after decades of neglect by CenturyLink. http://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/11/high-speed-internet-silverton-mining-village-out-of-digital-desert/  

Nice write-up by Confluence Denver on the state of broadband competition in Denver. http://www.confluence-denver.com/features/gigabit_041316.aspx  

FORETHOUGHT.net is proud to announce that we have installed a direct dark fiber connection into the Netflix cache located in South Denver, and have turned up a direct network interconnection with Netflix. This connection provides FORETHOUGHT.net customers the shortest path from Netflix to the end user – ensuring the best quality video experience. This investment by FORETHOUGHT.net avoids congested Internet exchange points, reduces delay in transmissions, and reduces the chance for packet loss which causes annoying “rebuffering” interruptions in your Internet video experience. FORETHOUGHT.net is committed to the highest quality Internet connectivity for its customers in Colorado and New Mexico. We achieve this goal by directly interconnecting our customers to content networks, bypassing the public Internet. FORETHOUGHT.net also peers directly with Google, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo – all on dedicated, high speed fiber optic infrastructure.

Apparently CenturyLink is going to try out implementing bandwidth caps and usage charges for its Internet services. What do you all think of that? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160211/09480933576/centurylink-follows-comcasts-lead-to-start-charging-broadband-overage-fees.shtml  

FORETHOUGHT.net, the parent company of Brainstorm Internet, announces today that it has purchased Vidion, an existing cable company serving Silverton Colorado. Its purchase is part of its overall strategy to bring high speed Internet to rural areas. Its backhaul is on fiber transport. Working closely with city administrators to provide the fastest speeds possible to the region, Forethought.net is now in the position to provide each home and business with up to 100M Internet service. “We have been working for over two years to negotiate the best approach to finally serve Silverton, CO,” Sid Arnold, General Manager of Brainstorm Internet reported. “We are delighted that we can provide 100M Internet speeds on our first phase of the build out through this cable company acquisition.” FORETHOUGHT.net will introduce high speed internet service using the existing cable infrastructure delivering a service that the town of Silverton has been waiting for. “We are… read more →

FORETHOUGHT.net was one of the very first participants at Comfluent, which is now known as CoreSite, at the Denver Gas and Electric Building (910 15th Street) in Denver. Here’s our page at the CoreSite Community online. CoreSite Community Link We can provide Internet, telephone, or cloud service connectivity through our POP in CoreSite.  

Check out this video where we create a Hosted PBX instance in a bit over two minutes. This is our amazing new CloudFone system.  

One of the key challenges to Gigabit service is latency. What is latency, and how does it affect Internet speeds? Latency is the amount of time it takes for data to travel from its source to its destination across the Internet. Latency depends on several factors; 1) Transmission Latency: the speed of the underlying circuit. A gigabit circuit (1000 mbps) has lower transmission latency than a T1 circuit (1.5 mbps). 2) Distance Latency: The geographic distance. The speed of light becomes significant when the distance is over 100 miles. 3) Switching Latency: time it takes for data to be switched through a router. Each router or switch takes a certain amount of time to transfer data in from one port, through the device, and out another port. For Internet applications, the major components to latency are usually the Transmission Latency and the Distance Latency. The time it takes light to… read more →