Bluebird Fiber builds a tailored fiber and voice service solution for Cuivre River Electric Cooperative
Bluebird Fiber has established a middle-mile fiber partnership with Cuivre River Electric Cooperative, Missouri’s largest electric distribution cooperative, based in Troy, MO. The cooperative serves more than 70,000 members.
This collaboration illustrates how Bluebird can create network solutions tailored to the needs of critical utility operations.
Bluebird designed a fully customized solution leveraging its fiber backbone with ring topology, giving Cuivre River Electric dual-path fiber diversity and seamless failover capabilities.
Also, Bluebird’s dedicated SIP voice services, delivered over private, engineered circuits, ensure the reliability and control required for a modern utility infrastructure.
Being an electric cooperative that is one of the largest of Missouri's 40 consumer-owned electric distribution cooperatives, the deployment illustrates the common thread in how electric cooperatives serve communities: a local presence that focuses on being proactive and ensuring service quality.
Chris Ryan, VP of member engagement and technology for Cuivre River Electric Cooperative, said the partnership with Bluebird “is all about strengthening the backbone of our internal operations and ensuring our teams have the robust connectivity they need.”
Likewise, Bluebird's customer win gives it a proof point it can use as it pursues similar opportunities with other electric cooperatives.
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Sean is the Editor-in-Chief of Lightwave. He establishes and executes Lightwave's editorial strategy across its website, email newsletters, events, and other information products. Before coming to Lightwave in July 2023, he served as editor of Broadband Communities. Earlier, he served as senior editor of FierceTelecom and the editor of the former Telecommunications Magazine. He got his start in the optical industry in 1998 when he became the editor of enterprise and optical networks at Information Gatekeepers. He has a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lives in Dracut, Mass, with his wife, two sons, and his cat, Dove.
