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Seattle Fiber Partners
In 1995, the City Council passed Ordinance 117981 establishing a model for cooperative agreements between public agencies for the installation, ownership, and maintenance of fiber optic cable. The fiber partnership completed its first fiber project in 1996 with seven members. Since then, the fiber partnership has invested $17.7M and completed more than 300 projects to construct about 535 miles of fiber in the greater Seattle area, with 107 miles of that total outside the city limits. The City has an ownership share in approximately 60% of the 535 miles of fiber. Some fiber built by the fiber partnership within city limits is owned entirely by non-City partners. The City has partial or whole ownership of all partnership fiber outside city limits. Because laying new fiber would have been prohibitively expensive, all of the partner agencies installed more fiber than they needed for their own use in order to anticipate future demand, and substantial portions of that excess fiber remain unused today.
The partnership has grown to include approximately 20 government and public education agencies:
- City of Seattle (multiple departments: DoIT, SPD, SFD, SCL, SPU, SDOT, FAS, Library, Parks, and Seattle Center)
- King County
- University of Washington
- Seattle Community College District
- General Services Administration
- King County Library
- Washington State Department of Information Services
- Seattle Public Schools
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Washington State Department of Transportation
- Washington State Ferries
- National Park Service
- King County Metro
- City of Edmonds
- City of Shoreline
- United States Coast Guard
- Port of Seattle
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) project (serving Executives and EOCs in King County, Pierce County, and Snohomish County as well as the Governor and the State EOC)