Bridging the Digital Divide in Mountainous Rural Maryland with Redline TVWS

Garrett County, the U.S. state of Maryland’s westernmost county, is a land of rugged beauty with mountains and valleys, a landscape that creates problems for broadband services delivery.

With 30,000 people and covering over 650 square miles, Garrett Co has significant numbers of residences and businesses with no access to broadband services, a situation not unlike many U.S. rural markets.

Declaration Networks Group (DNG), a Vienna, Virginia-based service provider, operating under its NeuBeam(tm) brand, is closing this Digital Divide with advanced wireless technologies that extend Last Mile broadband connections from Middle Mile backbone fiber optic cable routes.
Several years ago, the County recognized broadband as a utility that could generate economic and social benefits. It established a program to attract a private organization to deliver broadband services where incumbent service providers would not.

Garrett Co put up development money and received matching funds from the Appalachian Regional Commission. The County then sought a private partner through a request for proposal (RFP) process.

DNG responded to the RFP and was selected as the private partner in the Private/Public Partnership that garnered public funding and private investment.

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About Redline

Redline Communications (TSX:RDL) designs and manufactures powerful wide-area wireless networks for mission-critical applications in challenging locations. Redline networks are used by Oil & Gas companies onshore and offshore, Mining companies on surface and underground operations, Distribution Utilities for last mile broadband, Municipalities to remotely monitor infrastructure, and by specialized telecom service providers to deliver premium services. Hundreds of businesses worldwide rely on Redline to engineer, plan and deliver ruggedized, secure and reliable networks for their IoT, voice, data, and video communications needs.