U-reka Broadband Fiber Mining Services

U-reka Broadband provides a unique “fiber mining” service for the benefit of local units of government and economic development organizations. We believe this service will provide the following benefits: 

• Economic Development-Knowing where existing fiber optic facilities are located will give you an advantage over communities without this knowledge. The availability of fiber-optic based services has become a requirement for businesses seeking a new locations for investment 
• Rights-of-Way Management -Rights-of-way have become congested with installation of new telecommunications facilities. The ability to manage rights-of-way is critical to ease future engineering and for safeguarding existing assets from fiber cuts. Precise knowledge of existing facilities can also speed and simplify the permitting process lowering costs of installation and meeting expanding businesses need for responsive government 
• Enabling Partnerships – Knowledge of fiber assets can enable private sector and/or public private partnerships for the deployment of enhanced fiber or new wireless networks Process- U-reka utilizes our associates’ telecommunications industry experience to acquire vital information necessary to make your fiber-mining project a success. 

Our process: 

• Utilize industry databases to determine all fiber-optic owners within your community 
• Meet with incumbent, competitive and private providers of fiber optics to acquire additional information regarding their fiber networks 
• Utilize local permitting records to identify fiber construction projects 
• Conduct on-the-street surveys to validate information 
• Work with your GIS staff or contractor, or provide mapping services directly to create maps of all the facilities, plus create a database of the fiber optic owners 

Deliverables- U-reka not only provides you a snapshot in time, but also enables you to keep tabs on additions your community’s fiber optic infrastructure. We provide: 

• A map of all identified fiber optic facilities within your community and your fiber connections to major network access points 
• A database of fiber optic providers 
• Recommendations for a permitting process that will enable you to maintain the fiber inventory and maps as well manage your rights-of-way 

Additional services:

• Identify location of fiber optic facilities in relationship to businesses within your community  
• Telecommunications planning services for new business/commercial parks  
• Turnkey planning services for municipal telecommunications networks. We believe communities must proactively ensure that affordable advanced telecommunications services are in place to serve the business community. 

U-reka helps communities to understand what they have in place today and to keep their infrastructure documentation current.