Closing the Connectivity Gap with Hybrid-Fiber-Wireless Networks

Traditional telephone companies like yours are evolving every day to meet your customers’ needs.  You are the one-stop technology service provider for your community, offering a wide-variety of services. From video to home protection and security; from data storage to computer repair—you are the partner that local businesses, schools, governments, hospitals, and other community entities rely on to deliver the high-quality, affordable services that improve their lives. 

The opportunity exists for you to rise to the challenge of solving the growing connectivity gap, pushing for wide adoption of broadband-based communications and deploying even higher capacity networks for your customers. Whether it’s legacy copper-only infrastructure not supporting the bandwidth needed, the high cost and complexity of fiber in the local loop, or the need to cost effectively meet CAF II requirements in underserving areas, wireline technology cannot deliver the bandwidth at a cost and deployment speed that meets your company’s current business environment.

With the establishment of the Rural Development Opportunity Fund (RDOF) by the FCC, an extension of CAF II, up to $20.4 billion will be invested in delivering up to Gigabit services in rural areas with poor or no broadband coverage. RDOF prioritizes higher performance speed tiers, as well as lower latency for ISP's. The three tiers are Baseline (≥25/3 Mbps), Above Baseline (≥100/20 Mbps), and Gigabit (≥1000/500 Mbps).

Whether it’s legacy copper-only infrastructure not supporting the bandwidth needed, the high cost and complexity of fiber in the local loop, or the need to cost effectively meet CAF II requirements in underserving areas, wireline technology cannot deliver the bandwidth at a cost and deployment speed that meets your company’s current business environment.

Mimosa has an award-winning and field-proven point-to-point (PTP) and point-to-multipoint (PTMP) product portfolio, that can help exceed expectations. Leveraging new 160 MHz channels, 5–6 GHz spectrum, and WiFi 6E, Mimosa has been able to achieve an industry-leading 3.57 Gbps subscriber speed. As industry pioneers, you will continue to evolve to meet the needs of your customers. Contact us today to learn more about how our wireless broadband solutions can help.

¹ Technology Is Improving, So Why Is Rural Broadband Access Still a Problem?, US News and World Report, June 9, 2016