OnlineNW Graduates to 10Gig with ADTRAN to Reimagine Education
May 26 2016 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Service provider turns up first West Coast
10Gig community to support agile learning environment for next
generation of thinkers, creators and developers
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of
next-generation open networking solutions, today announced OnlineNW
has turned up 10 Gigabit (10GB) broadband service for Dayton, Ore.
– making it the first 10GB city on the West Coast. The community is
using this ultra-fast broadband capability to build an innovation
ecosystem across schools, non-profit organizations, local
businesses and government entities. Together, this ecosystem is
focusing on educating Dayton’s future entrepreneurs and lays the
foundation for tomorrow’s economic development.
Like many rural towns across America, Dayton struggled to keep
or attract the young professionals who are essential for providing
the next-generation of innovation needed for the area’s growing
agricultural technology (AgTech) industry. To address this
challenge, OnlineNW teamed up with Innovate Oregon and the Dayton
school district to create Innovate Dayton – a program focused on
fostering change and reimagining how local teachers educate and
local students learn via creative problem solving and critical
thinking. The result has been the development of an agile learning
environment supplemented by real-world experience and community
engagement opportunities for Dayton students from local companies
and wineries.
“We recognized that there was a gaping disconnect between the
technological innovations of today and how and what students were
learning and being exposed to in their educational environments. We
weren’t providing our students with the fuel and resources to be
tomorrow’s technology leaders that Dayton’s economic community was
missing,” said Thompson Morrison, innovation evangelist for
Innovate Oregon. “By creating a unique partnership between Dayton’s
community and its school system, we were able to create an
environment where each entity poured back into the other equally. A
critical component to the success of the program was the broadband
connectivity we were able to provide with ADTRAN’s platform. The
unprecedented broadband connectivity we can offer is enabling us to
build our talent infrastructure that ultimately unleashes our
economic potential.”
While the 10GB network infrastructure was initially created to
support the Innovate Dayton effort in the schools, OnlineNW also
saw a unique opportunity to enable Gigabit broadband service for
residents and local businesses via ADTRAN’s 10G PON solution.
OnlineNW has forged a public/private partnership with the school
that includes a revenue sharing agreement to support student-led
community development projects, like working with the town’s world
famous vineyards and wineries on technology-centric testing and
development. This strategic relationship was a catalyst to enabling
ultra-fast broadband for the community as a whole.
“OnlineNW took a collaborative, grassroots approach to solve a
problem for Dayton that is enabling the entire community to
re-imagine what is possible for future economic and educational
development. Gigabit broadband is giving rural towns across the
country the opportunity to innovate for their community, residents
and businesses in a way they have not been able to do before,” said
Mitch Fleming, vice president, service provider sales, ADTRAN.
“Dayton is proof that geographic location is no longer a barrier to
what a community can accomplish with passion, creative thinking and
Gigabit broadband.”
View OnlineNW’s video case study to learn more about the
company’s Gigabit success.
For more information about ADTRAN’s Enabling Communities,
Connecting Lives program, click here.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data,
video and Internet communications across a variety of network
infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service
providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and
millions of individual users worldwide. For more information,
please visit www.adtran.com.
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