Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Spring, and EPB Network Updates, Just Around the Bend
3:32 PM | 
Posted by
Billy Ray |
The calendar says that spring is just
around the corner, and we are ready for it, because we have a lot of work to do.
Right along with nature’s transition, your EPB team is also planning a spring
full of construction and maintenance to our networks. Some of that activity
will impact the products you purchase from us, so this message is an update on
the upcoming activities.
Over the next several weeks you will
see several notices from us regarding internet, cable television, and electric
power projects that might impact you. As we have been saying for some time, the
very best way to stay abreast of these events in real-time is to “like” our
Facebook page at www.facebook.com/glasgowepb This page has
become the easiest way for us to move timely information out to all 15,000 of
our customers.
The biggest upcoming potential impact
on your internet services comes from a variety of sources. We now connect
Glasgow to the world through high capacity circuits from Windstream and
AT&T, but we are about to add a third source via our partnership with other
cities called MuniNet. Very soon MuniNet connectivity will add a new internet
access point from Level3 in Nashville. Upcoming maintenance activity from
Windstream and AT&T may cause some night time interruptions, or slow downs,
to your internet service from EPB. At the same time, upcoming additional
bandwidth from Level3 should, after our initial testing of the new connections,
enhance your internet throughput significantly. Though
all three of these issues will result in improvements to our product, like all
construction projects, getting through the changes may prove a bit bumpy. Stay
tuned to our Facebook page and our Twitter feed https://twitter.com/glasgowepb
for updates.
We have other network projects that
will affect you as well. In an effort to establish multiple redundant fiber
circuits for TJ Samson Hospital and the new TJ Healthcare Pavilion, we will be
adding new fiber routes into our JMYTC Technology Center at the EPB offices.
That work, and the splicing necessary to incorporate it into the city wide
network, will cause some both cable and internet interruptions, mainly during
the wee hours of the morning, for several hours.
Finally, we also have a couple of large
electric power network projects that may affect you, especially as you drive
around the neighborhoods surrounding our Front Street Substation. Over the next
couple of months a line construction contractor will be performing work doing
what we call “reconductoring.” As the cost of energy has risen over the
decades, we find that some smaller conductors which usually carry large amounts
of current, are simply no longer economically efficient. The upcoming work will
consist of removing the smaller conductors near Front Street Substation and
replacing those with much larger capacity conductors.
We join you in welcoming spring to
Glasgow! Hopefully, spring, along with these projects, will bring us much more
benefits than frustrations.
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