RURAL DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND
$20.4 billion in funding over a ten-year period to support broadband networks in rural communities across the country.
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ADTRAN has been driving American Innovation in Network Design, Manufacturing, Services, and Support for nearly four decades, and serves as a Trusted Partner to operators, service providers, municipalities and cooperatives across the globe.The Total Access 5000 platform is the highest density 10G PON solution in the US market and serves as the foundation for the industry’s most comprehensive RDOF portfolio.
ADTRAN Broadband Access Solutions for RDOF
Fiber Access
Advanced Fiber Access technologies, including ADTRAN's Combo PON, provide the capacity and flexibility to deliver gigabit and multigigabit broadband to support the full range of community use cases.
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Fixed Wireless
Maximize your fiber deployments leveraging CBRS and mmWave fiber extension solutions to connect rural underserved markets rapidly, and jump-start smart city applications.
Vectoring
Rapidly deploy 100+Mbps broadband over existing copper infrastructure, utilizing Vectored VDSL2 / SuperVectoring and sealed Fiber-to-the-Node / Cabinet (FTTN/FTTCab) solutions.
Gfast
Fiber extension technology delivering symmetric gigabit broadband utilizing existing infrastructure, such as phone or TV wiring, speeding time-to-market while lowering costs.
ADTRAN Offers End-to-End, Turnkey Services for RDOF
PLAN
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Leverage ADTRAN's expertise in access products and solutions to support technology evaluation, network planning and RDOF proposal preparation.
MANAGE
CLOUD & MANAGED SERVICES
Cloud Services provide solutions for network and service analytics, audits, insights and automation.Managed Services allows to outsource network operation, so you can focus on business growth and subscriber experience.
IMPLEMENT
NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION
Provides speed and scale to plan, engineer and build fiber and fixed wireless networks, enabling RDOF Applicants to deliver best-in-class networks with accelerated go-to-market.
SUPPORT
MAINTENANCE SERVICES
Access to expert engineers who take the lead in maintaining network equipment and software.Priority technical support, advanced replacement, software maintenance and training.
ADTRAN End-to-End Solutions for RDOF
Our best-in-breed solutions allow service providers to invest their scarce resources in connecting their communities, build their brand and monetize their fiber networks, rather than expending resources managing their networks and scrambling to cope with unforeseen subscriber demands.
FIBER ACCESS
ADTRAN helps build full fiber networks leveraging PON technologies that deliver gigabit access to homes, businesses, and for infrastructure backhaul.
CONNECTED HOME
Our suite of residential CPE includes our latest Wi-Fi 5/6 service delivery gateways, SmartRG gateways, cloud-based management tools, and Mesh Wi-Fi.
SOFTWARE
Managing your network can be complex. Mosaic One simplifies it - with a single interface view of deployed devices with greater opportunity to improve your subscriber experience.
SERVICES
ADTRAN serves as your trusted partner offering turnkey end-to-end Services, speeding time to market, maximizing network performance, and enabling you to transform your community vision into reality.
RDOF At-a-Glance
Reverse auction based, four performance tiers[weighting on speed and latency] 6-Year Broadband Build Requirements
40% completion by end of year three of funding
20% for each subsequent year
100% complete by end of year six**
** Some additional time for construction is provided if the actual number of locations exceeds the FCC model’s number.
$20.4B over 10 yearsin two Phases
$16B for census blocks unserved by 25/3 Mbps
$4.4B for unserved locations in partially served census blocks plus areas not won in Phase 1*
*The FCC indicated that it may revisit the Phase 2 budget after it has additional information gained from Phase 1.
Access Architectures Provide Solution Optionsfor all RDOF Performance Tiers
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ENSURING YOUR SUCCESS
ADTRAN is committed to helping every step of the way in pursuing RDOF support.To ensure successful project planning and network rollouts, we have partnered with leading experts in bid strategy and project development, application preparation, network design planning, and countless other areas that provide the complete ecosystem of products and services needed to build a broadband network.
RDOF Background
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) is a federal funding program expected to allocate $20.4 billion over 10 years toward subsidizing rural broadband networksThe program is planned for implementation upon expiration of the Connect America Fund phase II (CAF-2) program in 2021, hence RDOF is also informally known as CAF-3.
Delivering Competitive Broadband
The RDOF seeks to encourage the deployment of networks that will stand the test of time, placing the highest value on those providing gigabit connections. It requires winning bidders in Phase I to offer the supported broadband and voice service to all eligible homes and small businesses within the awarded areas.
Structure and Schedule
The RDOF will target areas that lack access to 25/3 Mbps broadband services in two phases. During Phase 1 up to $16B will be auctioned for high-cost areas (census blocks) where there is no 25/3 Mbps service at all according to the Form 477 data. The Phase 1 auction will occur in 2020, with the subsidies commencing in 2021.
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ADTRAN offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of broadband access solutions available for the RDOF program, capable of addressing a wide range of geographies, network topologies, and subscriber densities.
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