Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program

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The High-speed Economies for Rural Opportunity (HERO) project will enable affordable, high-performance broadband in substantially unserved areas of North Carolina (NC) and provide significantly improved network reliability, resiliency, and latency.

Last mile service providers can leverage the proposed 209 mile fiber route through 11 counties by building laterals to both residential and commercial customers, as well as to their own aggregation facilities, from hand holes placed 2,500 feet or less apart along the proposed route.

In addition, three new telecommunications huts will facilitate lighting the proposed fiber routes and provide network connectivity services with increased reliability and resiliency, as well as physical co-location services to customers.