Faster internet speeds at Gadsden facilities to create 'gigabit' city - Gadsden Times

Coming soon to Gadsden City Hall and The Venue astatine Coosa Landing: 5 times faster internet, according to Mayor Craig Ford.

A two-year declaration with Sparklight volition present a shared fibre web for City Hall and The Venue.

This determination present positions the metropolis to amended facilitate different bundle enhancements the medication has planned, which volition assistance residents interact and bash concern with its metropolis government, according to a property merchandise from City Hall.

Ford said the improved work volition travel astatine nary greater interaction connected the metropolis budget. The politician said this is "one tiny step" toward his imaginativeness of making Gadsden a “gigabit city.”

“As our medication brings the City of Gadsden into the 21st Century, enhancing net bandwidth for our metropolis authorities was a must,” helium said. “The information that we were capable to get a woody that provides 5 Gbps [Gigabits per second] astatine a little costly monthly outgo than our erstwhile 1 Gbps of velocity is what made this a no-brainer.

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"Additionally, it volition marque The Venue astatine Coosa Landing an adjacent much charismatic abstraction for meetings and peculiar events due to the fact that hosts volition person lightning-fast upload and download speeds for video, assemblage engagement, and different technologies," helium said.

Ford thanked the city's Information Technology section for its "crucial work" connected the deal.