Conducted feasibility analysis for an Ohio-based rural electric cooperative for extension of fiber-to-the-home and SmartGrid deployment across the entirety of its 1,500 miles of electrical distribution serving 10,000 homes.
Through competitive bidding, selected a carrier partner to build a $30 million, 600-mile fiber-optic broadband network connecting more than 120 health care facilities in 13 southern Ohio counties.
Utilized multiple sources of FCC data coupled with Census and State of Ohio data to quantify the extent of the digital desert across the 8-county service area and extrapolated across Appalachian Ohio. From the data designed overarching broadband architecture to serve 100% of households in the rugged and foliage-covered geography across the southern and eastern part of the state.