"We set an ambitious goal of lighting half of our sites by September 30th, and we've accomplished that goal," said Terry Metze, CEO of AFN. "Thanks to the leadership of our board of directors, tireless work of our team and support of our partners, this is just one of the many milestones we will achieve. Alabama deserves this network, and we're going to deliver."
AFN's world-class infrastructure is highly fault tolerant, meaning that each distribution point has multiple pathways to adjacent sites and redundant equipment. These features dramatically increase the availability of services that AFN offers compared to other providers.
This announcement celebrates significant progress in delivering the world-class network to all counties. As a middle-mile Internet backbone network, AFN is bringing at least 400 Gigabit of resilient capacity to each Alabama county with rapid scalability up to 24 Terabits per second.
In 2022, AFN received its initial grant of $82.5M from the state's allocation of ARPA funds to construct the middle-mile network. Less than a year ago, the organization set a goal of completing phase one, of the grant, by the end of September.
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