Bring Broadband Home

Key Highlights

High-speed internet provides communities with access to education, healthcare, job growth, and skill development.
Students can take online courses in subjects like music, languages, advanced math, and science, connecting them with expert instruction.
Reliable broadband helps local businesses grow, attracts new development, and creates more employment opportunities.

Create Opportunities by Building a Community Broadband Network

Reliable, high-speed broadband is so much more than a network. It’s opportunity. Access. Convenience. Broadband networks allow your neighbors the freedom to live where they want while having the resources they need to live their best life. 

Education: Give your kids a bright future with online courses in music and languages, and access to experts in advanced math and science.

Healthcare: Bring medical specialists your community deserves right to their homes through telemedicine.

Jobs: Grow businesses in your community while attracting new development and expanding employment opportunities for everyone.

Training: Help your neighbors access new skills and continuous learning to build careers, without leaving home.  

You have an important job to do, bringing internet to rural, remote, and underserved communities. You need a community broadband network expert that can help you plan, design, deploy, and maintain a network while maximizing resources and supporting the commitment you’ve made to your community.

5 Steps To Follow in Building Your Community Broadband Network

Whether you’re an experienced network operator or tackling broadband for the first time, the following steps will help you create and manage a plan to implement a community broadband network.

1. Define the Project
Establish scope of the project, answer any questions, collect data, make plans for the project.

2. Design the Network Project
Gather insights, tips, and best practices to ensure your network is designed and optimized for the future.

3. Determine Funding Source
Identify funding sources, apply, and manage regulations and timelines. Click on the link to learn more about BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program).

4. Network Deployment
Develop your implementation plan, establish formal processes, and build your network.

5. Operate and Maintain
Document operating and maintenance procedures and manage resources to keep your network running smoothly.

Do you have questions about working through the steps above? Contact Corning to create a community broadband solution that's right for you. Fill out the form and a member of their team will help you through the process.

Download Corning's free e-book: 5 Tips to Maximize Your Funding.

Source: Corning Optical Communications

Nominate a Peer for the Connect the Unconnected Award!

The Connect the Unconnected Award recognizes the individual who has made the most significant contribution in the past year, bringing fiber broadband to an unserved or underserved community in North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

The identity of the 2026 Connect the Unconnected Award winner will be announced at the 2026 Fiber Connect Conference and Expo being held May 17-20 at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center located in Kissimmee, FL.