Broadband and the Road to Innovation via Lit San Leandro

Could Silicon Valley be replaced as center of the tech universe by the only gigabit city in northern California and its surrounding communities? Lit San Leandro is a gig network launched by a local successful software entrepreneur who could not get the broadband speeds he needed, even in the Valley. The City is now energized to aggressively expand the network to usher in a new era of innovation in the region.

San Leandro Chief Innovation Officer Deb Acosta shares some of the City's vision as it prepares to host a regional workshop to give communities' stakeholders hands-on training in bringing highspeed broadband to constituents. The communities on the east side of the San Francisco Bay see the Lit San Leandro initiative :

• cultivating a new generation of technology and bio tech entrepreneurs to take root;
• uniting East Bay state, local and community colleges into a major center of academic research;
• creating a nucleus of medical research and telemedicine advancement; and
• upgrading the overall quality of life of residential and business constituents.