Bandwidth Now Information

Founded in 2001, Bandwidth Now installs, provisions and manages next generation Building Optical Networks (BON). The patent pending BON architecture and design Aggregates Bandwidth, Automates IT, Integrates Building Systems and Enables Wi-Fi. The BON is a all fiber optic building backbone infrastructure which combines an "open standards architecture" with an "IP protocol". Bandwidth Now launched its first pilot project in San Diego, the 330,000 square foot NBC Buildings part of a "learning community project" with Intel Online Services. This pilot was a "tenant driven initiative", where the goal was to drive down tenant costs of bandwidth and other IT services as well as to integrate building systems. After a successful one year pilot, Bandwidth Now has deployed several high profile projects, including the world's first 100% Wi-Fi enabled office building, One America Plaza, where wi-fi is an amenity. To view these project and learn more, see Hot Buildings . Bandwidth Now was nominated by Intel for the Computerworld Honors Program's 21st Century Achievement Award. The Computerworld Honors Program brings together the Chairmen or CEO's of the foremost information technology companies in the world to document a revolution in progress: the global information technology revolution. This Program is dedicated to identifying the men and women, organizations and institutions, that are leading this revolution and to recording thee impact of their achievements on society. Bandwidth Now's leading edge next generation real estate deployments have been profiled in the Wall Street Journal , Cisco IQ Magazine , Fast Company Magazine and several other publications.