Four bits of last mile news, three from the Midwestern US and one across the pond:
Long Lines Broadband has revealed details about its last mile expansions in the upper Midwest. The regional provider has invested $25M to put in 500 new miles of fiber in South Dakota (Jefferson, Elk Point), Iowa (Salix, Sloan, and Sergeant Bluff), and Nebraska (Dakota City, South Sioux City), and is now offering FTTH to rural customers across the region. Long Lines is owned by Schurz Communications.
IdeaTek and Adtran have partnered for some big bandwidth in Kansas. They will be deploying 50G PON technology backed by Adtran’s SDX 6400 Series OLT and complemented by Wi-Fi 7 gateways. The rollout will support various application including smart farming, remote health care, and ultra HD video.
Pioneer Telephone has tapped Ribbon for the gear to upgrade its fiber footprint out in western Oklahoma. They will be leveraging Ribbon’s Apollo optical technology as well as SDN Domain Orchestration to boost their infrastructure toward 400G.
And over in the UK, CityFibre’s expansion into Suffolk is officially live. The first customers of some 80K homes and businesses passed are now being connected as part of a £100m Project Gigabit award. The rollout is the sixth of nine such rollouts backed by Project Gigabit.
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