Perfect For:

• Audio/Video/Film Editing Studio
• Design Development
• Medical Device
• Software Development
• Engineering, testing and Prototype
• Call Center /Sales and Marketing Support
• TeleHealth
• Uber broadband incubator
• All uses that benefit from GigE Connectivity

Technical – This office includes a 100 Mbps DIA connection burstable to GigE included in the rent, and is upgradable to up to 100 GigE over private frequency or dark fibers, with direct fiber access to the major East Bay data center for professional hosting, world class real time data collection system to support remote support of equipment, buildings, or systems.

Suite 125 @ 777 Davis will be available in July of 2013. Well situated in the building, this 2500 sq ft office has five private offices, conference room, and well-designed common space. There is adequate parking but hardly necessary as the parcel adjoins the San Leandro Bart station — under 30 min train ride to San Francisco, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, or Fremont.

Hacker Haven — This office is co-located with the Lit San Leandro which provides many advantages, it includes a 100 Mbps DIA connection burstable to GigE included in the rent but, due to the location, the is upgradable to up to 100 GigE, private frequency or dark fibers, direct fiber access to the major East Bay data center for professional hosting, world class real time data collection system to support remote support of equipment, buildings, or systems.
Ideal uses would be uber broadband incubator, video editing, call center, telehealth control center, age in place monitor, wide scale video surveillance, game development, any business requiring hosted systems, or a multitude of another next gen businesses.

Interested? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3769033891.html or contact us.

The Business Times noted that

San Leandro is not commonly thought of as a tech hub, especially when compared to more technology company-laden neighbors such as San Jose and San Francisco. City leaders think that could change. …

“We’re looking at how do you become a smart city, to create jobs,” [Chief Innovation Officer, Deborah] Acosta noted.

So far the strategy has shown some promise.

Promise may be an understatement. We’ve hooked up several buildings over the last month, with more coming. New business inquiries are keeping us busy. We’ll send another update with details shortly.

1. DIA vs Best Efforts – The T-1 is a DIA or Direct Internet Access – the bandwidth is yours and not limited to a fixed number of bytes transferred or having to be shared as the “…up to 50 Mbps” residential connection. The home connections are best efforts type of Service Level Agreement (SLA) that originated in the wired world when the speed was actually dependent upon many things including the distance to the central office or CO. Anyone who has had to share cable on Superbowl Sunday or when an new game or movie is released could see a far different environment in the evening compared to 4 am on a quiet Tuesday. Since residential service is out of phase with the business connection, carriers sell these at very low rates to fill up the pipe off hours. The DIA is a far different connection – the bandwidth is committed and if more is needed your supplier has to find it. Many applications require this kind of reliability and consistency.

2. Burstable – when your connection is connected to the Internet, it reserves a port on the equipment of your ISP, typically a 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps port. Commercial SLA’s often have equipment that will throttle your connection to your commit (from the DIA connection) so that if you have a 50 Mbps commit into a 10 Gbps port that is lightly loaded, it will still limit you to 50 Mbps. The more sophisticated SLA is a 95% Burstable connection. This kind of connection will allow you to use the full capacity of the system up to 5% of the month (measured on 5 min averages), and for many applications is a much better connection (e.g. web servers with highly variable traffic).

3. Symmetry – most non-fiber connections today (and some fiber connections) are asymmetric, i.e. they are based on the model that we are all sitting at home watching movies. They provide us a very fast connection from the Internet and a quite slow connection up to it. Applications such as web servers, file sharing, gaming, cloud storage or other cloud operations, direct connection of buildings in a campus or many others suffer when they use the Internet for business connections. In addition, some systems, even if they have high capacity, ban the file sharing and web servers operations so that they can connect more customers to fixed amount of bandwidth but this is precisely the functionality that a new Internet business needs to operate.

4. Latency – the speed of light is about 1 ms per 200 km so if you need low latency in a cloud based operation and you are running in a data center across the ocean or across the country, there will be latency. For an entrepreneur, there are some applications that simply require low latency – cloud based interactive games, robotic control (e.g. surgery), computer trading and many more. If you have a DIA the latency is fairly predictable if your ISP maintains consistency; but some inexpensive connection continually search for the cheapest route and even strip some of the tag information to make it cheaper to transit. Generally the latency is built into the physical connection and you will never change the speed of light.

Recently I heard a story of a user on fiber optic services where an entrepreneur decided to start up a web business in his house – serving out information for profit. This can be big business, Secretary Chu likes to note that Zillow is a $1B business based on serving up free government data. As the amount of information explodes, there will be many businesses. In this case, the entrepreneur started up three business over a six month time frame and the third one was a hit that he was able to sell. This could be the track of the next Facebook, Pandora, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google with server farms today that had their start as single servers. This kind of user (web servers for business) is generally prohibited on residential connection.

Broadband is an enabler but care must be taken that the full capabilities are exposed, especially the ones required for success.

The workshop was one and a half days of heady, future-changing discussions about what the Internet might become if tweaked a little here, or redesigned a little there. The roughly 60 participants included industry partners, foundations, the U.S. government, and the community (see list below). The Marina Inn warmly hosted our gathering.

While US Ignite’s mission–to create 60 next generation applications and 200 community test beds and coordinate best practices–was a little larger than we could tackle in a day and a half, the participants rose to the occasion with flair, vigor, and all of the resources at our collective fingertips. Those resources were substantial: equipment, research and education, networks, and even funding.

Glenn Ricart of US Ignite reminded us that we live in interesting times, that there’s a revolution going on. We were there to talk about the future, and how to make it happen. Mark Berman of BBN (home of GENI racks) wanted to make sure we had the tools to spread innovation widely. GENI and other tools allow us to program the cloud as well as program our wired and wireless networks. It’s more than just the applications–it’s how they interact as part of a larger network.

Next, Shehzad Merchant of Extreme Networks, spoke of software-defined networks and how they will revolutionize “the Internet” from what it is today, to a much more programmable, open, and capable networked ecosystem that serves different needs with appropriate capabilities and priorities.

Then Eric Pouyoul, of ESnet (the world’s leading science network), spoke about expectations: we all have them about how things work, from services that are scalable (does the network grow with your company? with improvements in technology?), predictable (wait time is known), and reproducible, even with mixed content types. These things are managed with many policies that outline network capabilities and configurations, and user interactions, at different levels. OpenFlow is one such technology that allows programming and policy setting over the network.

Finally Glenn asked if a gigabit is enough, given very high resolutions of some video cameras, the need for bandwidth for high-definition televisions (big news at the recent CES show), and very detailed medical images. “Can you see a gigabit?” Laptop screens these days use 3.98 Gbps, and Apple’s 15″ retina display can show 9.95 Gbps (if you can get it). What happens when we have streams of data coming from traffic, surveillance, and the stars? Not well, using today’s Internet!

The Sessions

The participants convened into several working sessions on a variety of topics. One of the first break-out sessions was learning what other projects were doing, and how our efforts could work together. Another session was wide-ranging but centering around what characteristics might define “advanced manufacturing.” A third (of nine sessions on the first day) engaged our brain-trust with the question by Code for America, “We’re going to Kansas City, what should we teach?” The easy wins for the team included educational efforts (what’s fiber and how does it work? Kansas City’s Open Portal with the City Budget and other city services, and community organizing and outreach). The longer projects included the controversial suggestion to put a bar code on every surveillance camera so anyone could see through the eye of that camera, to working with librarians, City staff, emergency responders, and citizen historians.

The second day of our event was focused on articulating our vision of the future, identifying and recruiting collaborators, and identifying and prioritizing barriers, tools, places, projects and people. US Ignite’s Board member Ben Moskowitz Skyped in from New York (I’ll bet that he was not on a gigabit network) to encourage and share tips about community building from his experience working with Mozilla. We have our work cut out for us.

Mike Zink showed us a quick demo of his living lab in Dallas-Fort Worth that tracked, in high resolution and using various sensors and networks, the big storm that went through recently. Contrasted with the National Weather Service’s blocky images, the difference was striking. Our final break-out session asked “who should be at the next Developer’s Workshop that wasn’t at this one.” A number of people proposed various standards bodies and professional interest groups, as well as other strategic industry partners.

Did I mention that this was a heady conversation? It certainly was. This workshop was one of those times when people start thinking beyond light bulbs. It wasn’t that long ago that electricity was new and light bulbs were all people knew about. Today we look around our homes and offices and often have difficulty finding an electric socket that has space left. The network is such a transformative part of our lives, and the things we’ll be able to do are really mind-blowing. Yet I suspect we’ll grow into them over time and come to expect more. We’ll look back fondly, remember our time waiting, and say “Those were the days.”

Participant organizations included:

• Banyan
• Boston University
• Brocade
• Case Western Reserve University
• CENIC
• City of Santa Monica
• Clemson University
• Code for America
• Columbia University
• Dell
• Drexel University
• Extreme Networks
• GENI Project Office
• Internet Archive
• Internet2
• Juniper Networks
• Kettering University
• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab / ESnet
• Lit San Leandro
• McGill University
• Mozilla
• NEC Corporation of America
• Oklahoma State University
• Purdue University
• SEMN Beacon/A-Vu Media
• The University of Kansas
• University of Florida
• University of Houston
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Missouri
• University of Missouri-Kansas City
• University of Utah
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Vanderbilt University
• Wayne State University
• White House Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP)