Located just 30 minutes south of Atlanta and Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the City of McDonough is home to just over 23,000 residents. While maintaining its southern charm, the city is a thriving, picturesque community that is the center for activities, art, and commerce for Henry County and the southern arc of Metro Atlanta. McDonough possesses all the charm of a small southern town, with locals calling it a great place to live, work, and play. And now, it is able to claim it offers state-of-the-art broadband technology.

A long-time resident of Marin County, CA, Brandt Kuykendall founded Dillon Beach Internet (DBIS) to fill a connectivity gap for residents and businesses in the area. With most residents struggling with intermittent, low-speed internet, or quite often, no internet at all, Kuykendall envisioned bringing fiber-fast speeds to the idyllic beach community.

With over 15 years of experience in telecommunications and data transport, Viginet-IP S.A. is a leading provider of managed municipal services for local governments and municipalities in the Buenos Aires province in Argentina. The company offers high-quality surveillance solutions to provide monitoring in urban, manufacturing, transportation, and tourism applications. With the requirement to transmit ultra high-definition, real-time video, Viginet-IP has a voracious appetite for high-capacity bandwidth.
 

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Located in rural central Nebraska, Prairie Hills Wireless has grown from strength to strength since it was founded in 2013. With over 1,200 wireless internet customers, the Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) serves over 70% of the town of Ravenna. Prairie Hills Wireless covers an area of about 1,300 square miles, offering customers high-speed Internet with speeds of up to 150 Mbps.

High-speed internet is finally starting to reach remote areas, thanks to a growing trend of power companies who are using techniques, infrastructure, and lessons learned when they brought electricity to their communities almost 100 years ago.

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Boundless Networks was founded in 2010 with a clear objective of becoming the UK’s leading rural broadband provider. The Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) covers over 3,000 square miles with over 5,000 live wireless connections, and delivers superfast broadband to areas of Lancashire and Yorkshire that are not well served by the national providers.

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Triad Wireless, a wireless engineering consulting firm and WISP operator based out of Phoenix, did not start out planning to offer rural Internet. With their sights set squarely on the residential market, the company competed directly with cable and DSL providers, creating a different model that took advantage of low-cost 802.11-based equipment, deploying an increasing number of Access Points and moving them closer to customers.

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Giga Internet is a leading provider of digital Internet services in the Gaucho Highlands, a mountainous region in the of Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil, and Metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, the state capital of one of the biggest Brazilian states. This region is home to many Brazilians of German and Italian descent, with cities in the Serra Gaúcha reflecting German and Italian influences through their architecture, gastronomy and culture.

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Tasked with guaranteeing reliable, high-speed wireless internet coverage for an outdoor event covering 125,000 square feet and 15,000 users is no small feat. Add to the mix the presence of President Barack Obama delivering Commencement at the prestigious Howard University along with the press and Secret Service that accompany POTUS, and a successful installation became of utmost importance to Slice Wireless Solutions.

Launching their high-speed Internet service in a small suburb called Warm Springs in Fremont, Sail Internet chose an ideal Silicon Valley location for their real-world lab. Fremont is the fourth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, an established center for emerging technology and advanced manufacturing, and as such, home to a well-educated, forward-thinking population receptive to new ideas.