Comment (4)The village of Sebewaing, Mich. is the latest -- and perhaps most unlikely to date -- community to join the Gigabit Cities ecosystem.
But thanks to a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network built by the municipally owned utility, Sebewaing Light and Water , the some 1,800 residents of a town near the tip of Michigan's thumb -- known as the sugar beet capital and home of the Michigan Sugar Festival -- now have access to gigabit services. (See Sugar Beet Town Gets a Sweet Gig.)
Click on the image below to take a tour of Sebewaing, Michigan's (and maybe the country's) first Gigabit Village:
Home of the Gigabeet
The Michigan Sugar factory in Sebewaing was built in 1902 and is the company's only continuously operating facility. The factory processes 925,000 tons of sugar beets and produces 260 million pounds of sugar annually.
— Jason Meyers, Senior Editor, Gigabit Cities/IoT, Light Reading
