Kerry got more funding for a new Cape Cod broadband network than any other broadband initiative in

Dan Gallagher, president of OpenCape Corp., and Sen. John Kerry deserve most of the credit for securing federal stimulus money to build a new broadband network across southeastern Massachusetts.

Gallagher, who is also chief information officer at Cape Cod Community College, spearheaded the project and kept it moving forward in the face of numerous obstacles.

Kerry, chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, helped direct $32 million to OpenCape, the local nonprofit formed to oversee the system.

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The OpenCape system will consist of a wireless network, a regional data center and 350 miles of fiber-optic cable connecting more than 60 anchor institutions.