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Telecom Business Review | Thursday, October 06, 2022
The Connect fiber network, powered by Glades Electric Cooperative, will provide high-speed internet connectivity to households and businesses in four counties.
Fremont, CA: 2022 will be the year the sector accelerates deployment, so expect to see more construction personnel laying fiber on the streets. Service providers who want to ride the impending wave of connection will need to move swiftly to develop networks and reach more households, most of which will use fiber. Companies will seek to expedite the fiber connection process and use cutting-edge technology to enhance installation rates and beat their competition.
Glades Electric Cooperative has chosen Conexon Connect, the internet service provider founded by rural fiber-optic network design and construction management company Conexon, to provide high-speed fiber internet access to rural Floridians within the cooperative's service zone.
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Connect collaborates with the cooperative to build and install a roughly 2,600-mile fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. The Glades Electric Cooperative-powered Connect network will provide dependable, inexpensive high-speed internet access to households and businesses throughout Glades, Hendry, Highlands, and Okeechobee counties. The objective is to provide fiber internet connectivity to all 13,400 members of the co-op.
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"The opportunity to partner with a co-op such as Glades Electric takes us right back to the heart of why we do this," said Randy Klindt, Conexon Founding Partner and Conexon Connect CEO. "We look forward to delivering exceptional multi-gigabit internet service to unserved and underserved homes and businesses in the rural heartland of Florida, providing access to the connectivity they need."
Glades Electric's almost $50 million network gets scheduled to get finished in three years. After that, members will have access to symmetrical (identical upload and download speeds) multi-gigabit internet capabilities, which will be among the fastest and most robust in the country.
Connect, powered by Glades Electric Cooperative, will also bring HD-quality phone service and provide future advantages of smart grid capabilities to the electrical infrastructure, such as increased power outage response times, better load balancing, more efficient energy distribution, and more.
Conexon and Conexon Connect collaborate with power cooperatives and other groups dedicated to providing fiber broadband to their areas. The firm has developed over 200,000 miles of fiber with its clients, built over 50,000 miles yearly, and connected over 500,000 rural Americans to fiber the home.
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