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Connected Home Application

Leviton Takes Fiber Connectivity to the Last Mile in Issaquah Highlands, a Seattle-area Residential Community

Issaquah Highlands and its planned 3,250 homes epitomize the technology-enabled residential wired community.

The vision of developer Port Blakely Communities, Issaquah Highlands is an amalgam of advanced design elements – architecture, materials and technologies – to enhance homeowners’ lifestyles and protect their prized Puget Sound environment. From the very beginning, the developer embraced the concept of a total fiber optic community whose citizens could enjoy the benefits of advanced broadband connectivity, e.g., communications, entertainment, information, home automation, etc., today… and in the future. The end result: a centralized fiber optic infrastructure designed with star topography that runs fiber to every division, street and residence. As one of the early contributors to the project, Joseph Mouhanna of Cascade Digital, points out: “Since the developer was convinced that (fiber optics) broadband connectivity was the way to go, they agreed to build a fully-equipped Data Center CO.” Gary Haddan, Customer Service Representative for Highlands Fiber Network, explains how that came to be: “From its inception, the vision for Issaquah Highlands, as outlined by Port Blakely Communities and original planner Mike Bookey, was a typical neighborhood with one very atypical feature: the ‘information superhighway’ would run right underneath it. That meant a very comprehensive data center along with a broadband ‘off ramp’ at every home. We now use quite a bit of Leviton product in our data center. Because this community was a connected town from its beginning, we’ve had a lot of time to try out different types of products from different companies. We’ve decided to work with Leviton at the data center end of the network, they do a great job for us.” According to Lane Project Manager Sean Wood, a Leviton Network...