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homes and businesses by ISPs. The backbone routes also serve as the critical <br />connections between the County offices to enable smart community benefits. <br />The County network is connected to the internet backbone at transport centers <br />across the service area. The connection points serve as network nodes, with <br />networking equipment securely housed in a field cabinet or huts inside the County. <br />Depending on complexity of each transport center, it can simply be a fiber <br />connection point, or it can function as a data center through an assortment of <br />devices to relay data between the internet and customers on the network. <br />Magellan created a buffer analysis which demonstrates how many address points <br />the County could reach within 500 and 1000 feet of the network. <br />New Underground Backbone <br />New Aerial Backbone <br />ser yF�+�i►� <br />Address Points in 500ftBuffer UGBB (14,445) <br />> <br />� i • <br />pr♦ <br />500ftBufferUGBB <br />= <br />Address Pointsin 1000ftBuffer of UGBB <br />,t i • <br />(29,429) <br />i <br />1000ftBufferUGBB <br />I <br />i. • <br />i • <br />A <br />•'"ail .. <br />er~® _ 3- <br />7 r o <br />SveLate I X 3 .. S�:b-to;e H 3 � <br />44fh ,t <br />kta 4:�<f St ^. 41,d SI <br />T <br />Figure 12: Address Poinrs Within 500ft/1000ft Buffers <br />Components of the outside plant design include: <br />• Aerial and underground placement requirements <br />• Fiber-optic routes in established ROW and easement with distance and slack <br />• Location of vaults, hand -holes and pedestals, along with their sizes and <br />quantities <br />• Placement of fiber distribution hubs, sizes and quantities <br />• Splitter configuration and density within fiber distribution hubs <br />• Fiber-optic splice points and splice cases <br />• Fiber-optic termination locations, sizes and quantities <br />42 <br />WWW.MAGELLAN-ADVISORS.coM 217 <br />