Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative taps ADTRAN for RDOF fiber broadband deployment
ADTRAN®, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) says that, in partnership with rural fiber network design and construction management company Conexion, it is supplying elements of it fiber broadband portfolio to Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative (CHEC). The electric co-op will use the systems as part of a fiber to the premises deployment to its membership in rural Oklahoma. The deployment is being supported via $4 million awarded through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program.
ADTRAN is shipping its Total Access 5000 10G fiber access platform as well as its cloud-managed Wi-Fi platform for the deployment. The company notes that, pre-pandemic, only half of CHEC’s electric members had email access and even fewer could access any form of reliable internet from their homes.
“ADTRAN is a great partner. They are focused on what is best for CHEC and what they can do to help our community and our network build, instead of focusing on a sale,” said Juli Orme, General Manager at Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative. “That type of customer support combined with a turnkey fiber solution gives me peace-of-mind that our network has the foundation needed to serve our members for decades to come.”
“We’re excited to help so many new types of service providers, like CHEC, take fiber into their own hands and bring better broadband to their bandwidth-starved communities,” said Craig Stein, vice president, Americas, and head of global business Development at ADTRAN. “Our solutions enable CHEC to deliver high-speed multi-gigabit internet across a reliable fiber network that will serve its members for many years. Not only will residents and businesses be able to connect to new economic opportunities, but CHEC can also leverage the strong fiber network for their own power grid modernization pursuits too.”
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