Adtran’s End-to-End Fiber Broadband Solution Empowers Volt Broadband to Connect Rural Louisiana
October 11 2022 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
ISP closes digital divide with multi-gigabit
fiber broadband services
Adtran, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation
multi-gigabit fiber access and fiber extension solutions, today
announced that Volt Broadband is leveraging Adtran’s end-to-end
fiber broadband solution to launch fiber broadband services and
close the digital divide in rural Louisiana.
Volt Broadband is an internet service provider (ISP) and a
subsidiary of Northeast Louisiana Power Cooperative. The ISP is a
Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) recipient and is leveraging
the funding to satisfy the need for connectivity in a region where
most rural communities have been severely underserved until
now.
“We’re committed to delivering reliable, affordable high-speed
internet connections that will eliminate the digital equity gap
here in Louisiana. To accomplish this, we need solutions that are
reliable and easy to work with, which led us to Adtran,” said Jeff
Churchwell, General Manager at Volt Broadband. “Our fiber network
will improve everything for our communities, and we’re excited
about the many opportunities this will create. Once completed, this
project will enable the people who live on 40 acres, 10 miles away
from town to have better internet service than people that live on
Main Street. From education and streaming entertainment to
telemedicine and farming, the Internet of Things has come to
Northeast Louisiana.”
Volt Broadband’s network includes 2,000 fiber miles and passes
11,500 homes. The ISP connected its first customer in September
2022. Currently, Volt Broadband offers its residential customers
broadband speeds up to a Gigabit while businesses can purchase
multi-gigabit services. The rural communities that Volt Broadband
serves are home to many farms and the ISP hopes its fiber broadband
infrastructure will empower subscribers to adopt precision
agriculture applications. Volt Broadband is helping them research
new approaches to farming that leverage connected sensors to better
monitor and automate the management of moisture meters, grain bins,
aquatic tanks and more.
Volt Broadband hired several fiber experts to deploy and manage
the fiber network and together they chose Adtran’s end-to-end fiber
broadband solution. Volt Broadband is leveraging the Adtran 10G
fiber access platform with 10G Combo PON technology and Mosaic One,
Adtran's cloud software that provides AI-driven insights and
actionable intelligence. The Combo PON technology supports GPON and
XGS-PON services simultaneously, allowing Volt Broadband to easily
scale existing services while having the flexibility to support
future broadband use cases. Mosaic One offers a single sign-on
experience that respectively equips customer support teams, network
engineers and marketers to quickly resolve customer issues, preempt
impending network issues and assess customer behavior to expertly
guide their campaigns.
“Recent broadband funding has created the opportunity for many
new types of fiber broadband providers to emerge, like Volt
Broadband that was created by a power cooperative. These new
providers rely on experienced partners to deliver solutions they
can trust,” said Brent Cancienne, Vice President, U.S. Regional
Sales at Adtran. “We offer our customers decades of experience in
broadband access networks, and we are honored to help Volt
Broadband and others unlock their communities’ potential through
Gigabit broadband services that will support critical applications
today and into the future using broadband products designed and
built in America.”
For more information about Adtran’s end-to-end fiber broadband
solutions, please visit www.adtran.com/e2e.
About Adtran
Adtran, Inc. is a leading global provider of open, disaggregated
networking and communications solutions that enable voice, data,
video and internet communications across any network
infrastructure. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, Adtran
empowers communications service providers around the world to
manage and scale services that connect people, places and things.
Adtran solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations and millions of individual
users worldwide. Adtran, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN and FSE: QH9). Find more at
Adtran, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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