An EPB official revealed at the recent Gigabit Cities Live at Charlotte that it is exploring adding a 100-gig service.

Mari Silbey, senior editor of Cable/Video, said - not long after Chattanooga was a worldwide pacesetter in offering a gigabit per second - it may be upping that 100 times.

She said at the conference EPB's Colman Keane "revealed that 100-gig speeds are on the company's year-to-year road map. That's not hyperbole, and it's not a vague promise of exponential speed increases."

Ms. Silbey said EPB "is among the first companies testing next-generation PON technology and deploying 10-gig services to both business and residential subscribers. Keane believes the demand for greater broadband capacity will only continue to grow, and EPB plans to be ready when it does."

She added, "Keane was also among those at Gigabit Cities Live to share new insights into why gigabit and multi-gigabit speeds are so important. As Keane explained it, speed was used as a proxy for latency when EPB first installed gigabit broadband to power communications in its smart grid network. Total capacity was less important than the ability to ensure fast response times."

The article also focuses on the fact that students in a high school lab in Chattanooga are using high-speed Internet to learn from scientist at the University of Southern California and manipulate a 4K microsope.

For more information about the Gigabit Cities Live event, click here.