the entire project timeline spanned from december 2004 to a projected end date of april 2008. clear milestones were defined including defining the project requirements writing the rep selecting the winning contractor designing the network testing the network launching the initial network publicly and then rolling the network out to rural areas
a large challenge for the project team was securing more than 200 aerial locations (such as lampposts and buildings) needed for network communication support on street structures. this required altering some streetlights to accommodate