CPI NEWS: Delivering at the speed of light!
The webcam installation is the latest high-speed fiber optic service provided to the City courtesy of CPI. William R. Fairchild International Airport, the Vern Burton Center, the Boat Haven and Clallam County Fairgrounds all benefit from CPI’s current push to promote Port Angeles as a “connected” city, says Johnson.
Johnson hopes the free services Capacity Provisioning Inc. provides will result in future business. “We want to continue to market Port Angeles as a high tech, highly connected city,” he says. “It’s good for business. That’s also the idea behind the ‘www.Fibercity.us’ marketing we’ve been involved with since March 2002.
“Now businesses outside our area can view ’progress in the making,’” says Johnson, “as our City moves forward with this renovation project. It’s important for us locally, as well as for those thinking of relocating here to be able to see that Port Angeles is on the move. What we hope to accomplish is to attract businesses to Port Angeles and help them with the services they need when they permanently relocate here. Then – hopefully – some of them will become our customers.”
CPI helps establish Port Angeles, Wash. as "Fiber City"
(Port Angeles, WA, September 1, 2006) Capacity Provisioning Inc. (CPI) has grown to over 200 customers and currently transmits data over 100 miles of fiber 
optic cable, three-fourths of which CPI installed and owns. Our home base, Port Angeles, Wash., already has four times more fiber optic cable per square mile than Tacoma's "CLICK" Network. Consequently, Port Angeles is now known nationwide as "Fiber City."
Our objective is to leverage the unique characteristics of the Port Angeles business community while at the same time, keeping Port Angeles businesses competitive in the new Internet Economy. CPI has the entrepreneurial vision, technical expertise and the community-minded spirit to make this happen! Check us out at www.fibercity.us.
Craig Johnson, the Vice President/Managing Partner of Capacity Provisioning Inc. and CPI Computers LLC., says the City of Port Angeles and Capacity Provisioning Inc. have worked together for several years to “promote the city’s fiber optics capabilities as a means to entice more businesses to relocate to the area.” Johnson notes that his company has worked with the City and others to develop a “Fiber City” identity for Port Angeles. “Our Fiber City website – www.fibercity.us – offers the key message ‘Live Where You Want … Work Where You Live,’ says Johnson. “This message continues to reach thousands of website visitors and many that viewed detailed information about the City and its robust fiber connectivity.”
High speed communications is part of 'having it all'
“Clallam County is a very connected community,” explains Johnson. “With Qwest and Wave Broadband providing services to the more outlying areas and Qwest, Wave and Capacity Provisioning providing services to more densely populated areas, we rate extremely high on connectivity for rural area. What’s even more impressive is that most rural communities don’t have a fiber optic network, while we now have four times more fiber optic cable per square mile than Tacoma – a city that markets its ‘CLICK’ network.”
“In ‘having it all’ part of the ‘all’ is high speed connectivity,” says Johnson. “The network provides two critical pieces: First, people can live where they want because they can work remotely. Our ‘light speed’ technology has created a great home for telecommuters and teleworkers and for corporate relocations. Our high speed Internet network allows people do that. Secondly, it is of increasing value to our existing businesses.”
Fiber Optic technology saves time, money and increases size of our market
“The way the world and industry have moved, this high speed connectivity is crucial to new businesses looking at the area to relocate, especially software companies that can work anywhere in world. Port Angeles is so well connected that their executives can live here and connect to any where in the world. With access to fast Internet connections, it’s certainly much more appealing.”
“The network also has a great impact on existing businesses. Our fiber network not only connects businesses to their branches located outside the area, it also offers high speed connectivity to local branches, Says Johnson. “For example, lumber traders, Angeles Millwork and Hartnagels basically operate as one entity. The network provides them with fiber optic technology and it saves them money since they don’t need several computer systems. Many Realtors also benefit from our high speed connections. Because they are so Internet based now, they save time and money and can virtually serve any client in the world.”
“Capacity Provisioning’s partnership with the City of Port Angeles resulting in Internet service at super high speed has made Port Angeles as not just great place to live, but a great place to work.”