CASE STUDY INDUSTRIAL PARK GOING BROADBAND The industrial park in Seligenporten near Nuremberg, Germany, actually has eve- rything a tradesman needs: The highway A9 is less than three kilometers away; the major city Nuremberg is just around the corner, and all infrastructure needed for living and working already exists – except a powerful Internet connection. The enterprises in this industrial park have to cope with a 2 Mbps connection, and none of the regional telecommunications providers plans to change that anytime soon – unless of course the local companies contribute EUR 250,000 to the total devel- opment costs. Understandably so, this is out of the question for small and medium- sized businesses. One company, however, has become a pioneer in regards to using alternative technol

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