Carlini interviewed key real estate, government, and corporate executives as well as academic researchers for this paper including executives from AT&T, CISCO, CenterPoint Properties, the DuPage National Technology Park, the DuPage Airport Authority, the consulate of Taiwan, the University of Chicago, the City of Fort Wayne, Fermi Labs and others.

Carlini states that the importance of real state must be updated from “Location, Location, Location” to “Location, Location, Connectivity”.  He believes that real estate development has to take into account some new dynamic areas of master planning including network infrastructure and upfront power planning as the demands for broadband connectivity rise.

With Intelligent Business Campuses and Intelligent Industrial Parks under various stages of development and completion around the world, the way corporations and local government agencies view regional sustainability, job development and retention as well as economic development, will change.

The concept of Intelligent Business Campuses (IBCs) has come of age as all industries seek out high performance real estate platforms to launch and maintain state-of-the-art facilities that support their core businesses.  In this case, high performance means high profitability through high occupancy, a defined theme and utilization of redundant power grids and broadband connectivity as well as high security for the total development.

His findings conclude “Economic Development equals Broadband Connectivity” and broadband connectivity equals jobs.  Some business campuses are already connected to 10Gbps networks.   There are also some looking into implementing 40Gbps speeds as more find out that having “hyper-speed networking”.provides for new applications.

Carlini pioneered the concept of Measuring Building Intelligence in 1985 and has advised on major projects ranging from a six building campus in Silicon Valley to the City of Chicago’s 911 Center as to the technology and network infrastructure needed to support these facilities.