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Masha Zager is our guest blogger.  Masha is editor of Broadband Communities Magazine, which is hosting its annual summit beginning tomorrow April 24 in Dallas.  The three-day summit brings together multi-family housing industry leaders to address issues of importance to managers, developers and residents of apartment, condo and planned living developments, through expert presentations, panel discussions and workshops.  Visit www.bbc.com/2012s to learn more.

Multi-family housing residents have been clamoring for connectivity since the dawn of the broadband age. A dozen years ago, giving a single-computer household access to static websites wasn’t a problem. Today, on the other hand, a typical household has multiple computers and other devices – game consoles, tablets, smartphones, media centers and even connected TVs – all connected through a home network.  On average, the American family will have seven to 10 Internet-connected devices in their home by 2015.

To add to the challenge, residents are increasingly streaming online video to these devices, or to their TVs.  A recent survey by Leichtman Research Group found that nearly four in ten U.S. households have at least one television set connected to the Internet via a video game system, a Blu-ray player, an Apple TV or Roku set-top box, and/or directly to the TV set.

Entertainment isn’t the only reason consumers need Internet access. More and more residents are working from home at least part-time and even running businesses from home. To access corporate networks, use cloud services or hold video meetings with their colleagues and partners, they need robust and reliable broadband networks.

Increasingly, multi-family property owners and managers find that broadband access is one of the first amenities prospective tenants ask about. And increasingly, they are finding that the type of broadband network that might have satisfied residents’ demands only a short time ago isn’t up to meeting today’s demands – let alone those of the coming decade. In fact, many of them have discovered they can increase the value of their properties by making sure their building infrastructure is future-proof.

At the Broadband Communities Summit, held from Tuesday, April 24, through Thursday, April 26 in Dallas, more than 170 industry experts will share their insights about all aspects of broadband infrastructure – the new technologies that are changing the cost/benefit equation, the new services owners can offer their residents, and the new business models that are evolving. 

We’re excited to have Verizon Enhanced Communities as official corporate sponsor of those discussions and the summit as a whole.  We look forward to learning more about what lies just down the road in the way of broadband services for multi-family housing.

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Someone must been reading my mind, or I was reading theirs. But I was thinking more of speed. Not increasing the customer base. Increase the speed, and the customer base will follow. Can't put it all on the pipe if the pipe is not large enough. In plumbing terms, that usually causes a sewage backup.

http://forums.verizon.com/t5/FiOS-Internet/Are-we-behind/m-p/432443/message-uid/432443#U432443

But I do think you need a financial way to support the bigger pipe so MDUs may be the answer. Just as long as you do not over subscribe what we have.