This video is a discussion between regional leaders in the public and private sector as they highlight the need for resilient infrastructure solutions across geographies and infrastructure modes, touching on topics from broadband to smart buildings.

This report explains the City and County of San Francisco's (City) plans to address the need for essential high‐speed, affordable broadband services in the City through a ubiquitous fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network.

This resource describes the development of a new co-op entity, Coastal Fiber Inc., which intends to deliver fiber-to-the-home broadband services in three counties in Southeast Georgia. The piece discusses the role of state legislation in empowering cooperatives to deliver broadband services.

This report explores state broadband policy in North Carolina and examines its effects on competition. The report finds that rural communities in North Carolina see less investment and less competition than their urban counterparts and that cooperatives are responsible for many of the rural broadband successes in the state.

This resource showcases the diverse range of approaches communities and local internet service providers (ISP) have taken to expand affordable, high-quality internet access in Minnesota. It includes a series of case studies that detail how communities are meeting the connectivity challenges of a broken marketplace shaped by large monopoly service providers.

This resource explores the communications considerations posed by wildfires in northern California. Specifically, it describes the City of Chico and California's process of understanding the state of broadband in the city, as well as exploring opportunities to improve access.

This report offers recommendations from the task force aimed at improving broadband access across Idaho. Recommendations include identifying funding and partnership models, connecting health care and first responders, and giving students and families the tools to succeed.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that fiber is the best option for last-mile infrastructure, contrasting it with coaxial cable and wireless last-mile infrastructure. It explains concepts like bandwidth, latency, channel capacity, and noise.

A report by EducationSuperHighway highlights the progress towards getting schools in the U.S. connected to fiber infrastructure and the importance of connectivity in the classroom. It provides recommendations to states to maintain a strong E-rate program, catalyze direct action, and upgrade state networks.

In this blog, EducationSuperHighway details how Mike Wetsel, the wide-area network administrator for a consortium of Texas school districts drove a project to upgrade 41 school districts in the region to fiber. Mike Wetsel discusses how the update benefits the classrooms and students and what school districts can expect as the consortium continues to upgrade each campus.

In this blog, EducationSuperHighway discusses the importance and difficulty of upgrading bandwidth using fiber in rural school districts using the example of LLano Independent School District in Texas.

In this blog, EducationSuperHighway discusses the strategy a rural school district in Arizona devised to cover the cost of construction to connect to the local fiber circuit.

This report suggests policy strategies for consideration as the State of New Mexico seeks to maximize the investment environment for broadband. Additionally, the report includes suggested parameters for a state funding program and presents a selection of case studies of successful public-private partnership models for broadband.

This report analyzes the current and emerging generation of mobile wireless technologies and compares those technologies to wireline technologies such as fiber‐to‐the-premises (FTTP), cable broadband, and copper DSL across a range of technical parameters, including reliability, resilience, scalability, capacity, and latency. The report also evaluates wireless carriers’ mobile pricing and usage structures. The report concludes that, for both technical and business reasons, wireless technologies are not now, and will not be in the near-to-medium future, adequate alternatives or substitutes for wireline broadband.

This report describes a strategy for delivery of services over ubiquitous fiber‐to‐the‐premises (FTTP, or fiber connectivity to every home and business in San Francisco) that would be open, offering equal potential access to the network by multiple entities so as to enable and stimulate competition. The effort is guided by principles of equity; jobs, innovation, and growth; and local authority.