Community Broadband Networks

Invest In Your Community with Fiber Broadband

Bring Broadband Home

Create Opportunities by Building a Community Broadband Network

Reliable, high-speed fiber broadband is so much more than a network. It’s opportunity. Access. Convenience. Broadband networks allow your neighbors the freedom to live where they want while having the resources they need to live their best life. 

Education: Give your kids a bright future with online courses in music and languages, and access to experts in advanced math and science.
Healthcare: Bring medical specialists your community deserves right to their homes through telemedicine.
Jobs: Grow businesses in your community while attracting new development and expanding employment opportunities for everyone.
Training: Help your neighbors access new skills and continuous learning to build careers, without leaving home.

You have an important job to do, bringing internet to rural, remote, and underserved communities. You need a community broadband network expert that can help you plan, design, deploy, and maintain a network while maximizing resources and supporting the commitment you’ve made to your community.

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5 Steps To Follow in Building Your Community Broadband Network

Whether you’re an experienced network operator or tackling broadband for the first time, the following steps will help you create and manage a plan to implement a community broadband network.


	1. Define the Project Establish scope of the project, answer any questions, collect data, make plans for the project.
	2. Design the Network Gather insights, tips, and best practices to ensure your broadband network is designed and optimized for the future.
	3. Determine Funding Source Identify funding sources, apply, and manage regulations and timelines.
	4. Network Deployment Develop your implementation plan, establish formal processes, and build your network.
	5. Operate and Maintain your Network Document operating and maintenance procedures and manage resources to keep your network running smoothly.

Do you have questions about working through the steps above? Contact us to create a community broadband solution that's right for you. Fill out the form below and a member of our team will help you through the process.

Community Broadband Resources

Rural Broadband Architectures

Choose the right fiber network architecture that meets your community’s needs, supports future growth and balances product selection with deployment speed, cost and performance.

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BEAD Program (U.S. Only)

BEAD refers to Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment which aims to provide broadband high-speed internet services to the underserved rural areas in the United States.

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The Signal Blog

Stay up-to-date with the latest optical communications technology trends, discoveries, industry experts, and learning resources.

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Connecting the Unconnected: Bringing Fiber to the Houseboat

Learn how Corning helped DTC design and deploy a plug-and-play fiber connectivity solution to bring high-speed Internet access to houseboats in a marina.

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Learn how Corning helped DTC design and deploy a plug-and-play fiber connectivity solution to bring high-speed...

Learn how Corning helped DTC design and deploy a plug-and-play fiber connectivity solution to bring high-speed Internet access to houseboats in...

An Investment for the Future

Community broadband can deliver immeasurable benefits, including a path to the digital future to ensure your community’s place in the innovation economy. And optical fiber – just like roads and waterways – is a key tool for economic development. An all-fiber network can improve public services, make communities more attractive to residents and businesses, and bolster competition and fiber adoption to help close the digital divide. When planning for your fiber optic network, don’t go it alone. Corning can help, with a robust ecosystem to help you in every aspect of your deployment, from project financing and planning to network design and management.

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