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| Bill Scally Makes The Right Connections January 2004
It isn't every day you can make a major impact in your community's cable service. Last year, Bill Scally, a network engineer in the ISIS networking group in Bedford, had the opportunity to attend a town meeting in his hometown of Shirley, Mass. and discuss the telecommunications issues with a representative from the local cable company. "Our town had technological problems," explains Bill. He says that residents had long suffered from slow IT networks that rendered their cable TV service almost un-watchable with continual outages. According to Bill, the town's cable network only had a 350 MHZ connection, not the standard 850 MHZ that most cities and towns enjoy. Bill used his network engineering knowledge to make suggestions to the rep, and the cable guy gladly accepted them. The company responded by installing fiber optics directly into the town, "which improved our cable service immensely," Scally says. Scally realized that there remained larger technology issues in Shirley to tackle, so he joined the town's cable access committee. "The committee I'm on is currently writing up bylaws and articles of incorporation to create a nonprofit organization to run our public, educational and government local cable access channels," he explains. When his neighbors realized the depth of Scally's IT knowledge, they invited him to join the town's information technology committee as well, an invitation he accepted. These days, Bill invests much of his free time ensuring that the town is properly wired for day-to-day civic operations as well as emergencies. Bill has engineered, designed and implemented a Local and Wide Area Network to support the town's new VOIP (voice over internet protocol) phone system to be installed in the public schools, town offices, police station and library. "We're registering the Town's IP domains setting up Mail and Web services so the police, fire and school system can easily communicate with each other and all citizens," he says. Bill Scally's volunteer work with the Town of Shirley, Mass., does indeed prove that knowledge is power. Bill Scally passed away on September 29, 2005.
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