eCommunity™ Fiber drives smart city infrastructure with Adtran’s open fiber access solution

News summary:

• eCommunity^™ Fiber needed a scalable, open broadband network to support municipal services and businesses in the City of Morrow
• Smart city initiative is powered by Adtran’s fiber access technology for GPON connectivity with future XGS-PON expansion
• Network improves public services, enhances safety infrastructure and provides businesses and residents with choice in connectivity options

MORROW, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adtran today announced that eCommunity^™ Fiber is leveraging its fiber access platform to power the City of Morrow’s smart city initiative. This open-access deployment provides high-speed connectivity to municipal services, businesses and residents, enabling advanced public safety applications and future-ready broadband services. By leveraging Adtran’s technology, eCommunity^™ Fiber is ensuring that the city benefits from a robust and scalable closed-loop broadband infrastructure. The deployment will also support government operations and create a foundation for additional smart city services, improving overall efficiency and accessibility for the community.

“Our partnership with Adtran is central to our vision of delivering next-generation infrastructure to the City of Morrow,” said Rodney Gray, CTO of eCommunity^™ Fiber. “Adtran’s fiber access solution enables us to support both municipal WAN applications and enterprise-class connectivity while also laying the groundwork for future broadband expansion. This network gives Morrow the flexibility to adapt as connectivity demands grow, ensuring businesses and residents have reliable, high-speed options. By embracing open-access fiber, we’re supporting competition among service providers, which leads to better pricing and improved service quality for everyone in the community.”

The carrier-neutral solution provides the connectivity backbone for a range of smart city services to enhance Morrow’s public safety and accessibility. High-speed GPON connectivity is being delivered to key municipal sites, including libraries, civic centers and other community spaces. This supports services such as public Wi-Fi and advanced surveillance systems while also enabling Ethernet connectivity for local business operations. Designed with future growth in mind, the network can scale to meet rising bandwidth demands through a planned upgrade path to XGS-PON, helping Morrow stay ahead as technology needs evolve across public services, education and local enterprise.

“eCommunity^™ Fiber’s smart city initiative in Morrow is a testament to the power of open fiber networks,” commented Jeremy Harris, VP of North America sales at Adtran. “With our platform, eCommunity^™ Fiber is delivering flexible, future-ready broadband that supports everything from public safety to digital transformation for local businesses. Our technology ensures a smooth transition to next-generation services, enabling the city to remain at the forefront of connectivity advancements. Unlike many municipal broadband projects, Morrow’s smart city network is privately funded, ensuring long-term sustainability and adaptability. With Adtran’s technology, eCommunity^™ Fiber is establishing a robust infrastructure that will improve public services and drive economic growth across the region, creating a blueprint for other cities looking to modernize their digital infrastructure.”

About Adtran

ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN and FSE: QH9) is the parent company of Adtran, Inc., a leading global provider of open, disaggregated networking and communications solutions that enable voice, data, video and internet communications across any network infrastructure. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, Adtran empowers communications service providers around the world to manage and scale services that connect people, places and things. Adtran solutions are used by service providers, private enterprises, government organizations and millions of individual users worldwide. ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. is also the majority shareholder of Adtran Networks SE, formerly ADVA Optical Networking SE. Find more at Adtran, LinkedIn and X.

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