In your community, leveraging a fiber network to make it "smart" has many benefits. Fiber can bring your community improved economic development by attracting new citizens who work remote, developing local businesses with this growth. A "smart" community can also bring increased quality of life by increasing safety infrastructure, enabling remote learning, and providing a high speed internet connection to those you're serving. With the additional bandwidth that fiber networks bring, communities can utilize the growth and potential of a fiber network to lead towards a brighter future.
Municipal Broadband: Enabling a Smart Community
Municipal Broadband: Enabling a Smart Community
Why Fiber? Future-Readiness.
As seen from our experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for connectivity will continue to grow with an ever-changing workforce dynamic. Fiber broadband networks are the best solution to this problem due to their scalability and ability to support any bandwidth application. In order to properly prepare your network for the future, a "build it once" approach allows for the flexibility to adopt ever-evolving customer demands from your network. This approach includes preemptive planning in the initial design phase to anticipate future expansions and opportunities to keep the capital expense as demand grows to a minimum. Factors included could be deciding on the ideal fiber architecture for your application (ex. fiber lean vs. fiber rich) whether or not there is already usable network infrastructure in the area. Consideration of all of these factors will ensure that the utilization of your municipal fiber broadband network will be maximized.
Quality of Life: Alongside, water, electricity, and gas, broadband is considered "the fourth utility." Installing a municipal broadband network will increase access to today's interconnected society, allowing a municipality with access to thrive.
Service: A fiber network will bring a significant increase in the bandwidth of the municipality, allowing for adoption of smart systems (surveillance, waste management, monitoring of municipal systems) that can improve the services provided to municipal citizens.
Economic Benefit: Communities with widely available fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) have significantly higher localized GDP and experience double-digit growth of higher-paying jobs.
Education: As seen in recent years, the move to remote learning and online assignments- whether it be in elementary school or higher education- requires a reliable internet connection for students to complete coursework. A fiber-to-the-home approach allows students to thrive in this environment.
Municipal Broadband Success Stories
Bringing Community Broadband Home – Fairlawn, Ohio
: Bringing Community Broadband Home – Fairlawn, Ohio
Internet for Everyone in Seward, Nebraska
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Local Leaders Seize the Promise of Community Broadband for Baldwin City, Kansas
: Local Leaders Seize the Promise of Community Broadband for Baldwin City, KansasSeeking Federal Funding?
The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program
The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program
Understanding the BEAD Program
Identify funding sources, apply, and manage regulations and timelines.Click on the link to learn more about BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program).
