Smart Gigabit Status and the San Diego Market

Attisha: “There’s a lot of connectivity happening in San Diego, and Cox is proud to play a role.”

SAN DIEGO—For years, San Diego has made the “Top Wired Cities in the US” lists and continues to be a leader in connectivity and broadband speed, Cox Communications’ SVP and regional manager Sam Attisha tells GlobeSt.com. Cox recently helped the city of San Diego become a Smart Gigabit Community, a program founded by the non-profit US Ignite, which focuses on advanced networking technology in order to build smart communities.

The city of San Diego aims to create the largest city-based deployment of an Internet-of-Things platform in the world. In addition to the US Ignite involvement, Cox recently built more than 50 miles of fiber to provide 92 schools in the San Diego Unified School District with access to a 175-gigabit network. A total of 189 schools in the district are now connected to a fast Ethernet network that will enable all types of digital learning. The network serves more than 130,000 students in the district, the second largest district in California.