Office Divvy ™ provides co-location facilities and outsourced operations to Startups, Entrepreneurs, and Small Business. In a ceremony on June 22, 2010, Office Divvy ™ member Nighthawk Marketing (the maker of the Nighhawk Solar Light) assigned representation and distribution to Karachi-based Equip International for solar light distribution in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The signing ceremony took place in Palm Coast, FL. Nighthawk Solar co-founder Tim Howard, and Equip International representative Anjum Ahmad were accompanied by press, select business-people, and government and economic-organization leaders including,
Palm Coast Mayor, Jon Netts
Vice Mayor and Councilwoman, Mary DiStefano
Councilman, Holsey Moorman
Councilman, Frank Meeker
Councilman, Bill Lewis
Palm Coast City Manager, James Landon
President of Flagler County Chamber of Commerce, Doug Baxter
Enterprise Flagler Director, Greg Rawls
Palm Coast Economic Development Team Leader, Beau Falgout
Office Divvy co-founders, Lisa Ekinci, Sim Taing, and Ky Ekinci
Palm Coast Mayor Jon Netts, Vice Mayor and Council Member Mary DiStefano, Council Members Bill Lewis, Holsey Moorman, and Frank Meeker used their golden scissors to 'cut the fiber' the morning of May 11, 2010:
The 'fiber cutting' ceremony marks the opening of the colocation facility housing the Palm Coast FiberNET and providers' equipment.
FiberNET is an open access, multi-provider telecommunications network that has been developed by the City of Palm Coast in response to requests from the business community to use City-owned fiber infrastructure to help spur business and jobs growth. Over the next two years, the plan is to get fiber connections to most businesses in the City. FiberNET will be operated as a digital road system, the City will build and maintain the digital road system, but private businesses (providers) will use the digital road to deliver goods and services to customers.
FiberNET is an exciting project for Palm Coast, primarily benefiting select business locations along the Palm Coast Parkway and Town Center. Office Divvy headquarters at the West Pointe Plaza were in the phase-1 of the project, with all infrastructure already underground. We expect to have fully up and running at Office Divvy in early June.
The City of Palm Coast will introduce its new open access FiberNET network at an official 'fiber-cutting' ceremony on Tuesday, May 11th, at 8:15 a.m.
The ceremony will take place at the FiberNET collocation facility adjacent to Heroes Park, located approximately 1/2 mile west of the Flagler County Library on Palm Coast and Belle Terre Parkways. Brief facility tours will also be available from 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Palm Coast's FiberNET is Florida's first municipally owned open-access network, planned to serve select local business locations. City itself does not play the provider role, but rather charges for their infrastructure at wholesale rates to providers.
Office Divvy ™ already signed up for Palm Coast FiberNET through Lux Communications, one of the Palm Coast Fiber Net providers. At Office Divvy ™ we expect to be up and running with our fiber connection by late May, with speeds up to 10 times our current broadband connection.
