BRISC
This proposal includes the deployment of state-of-the-art 10G symmetrical network equipment XGSPON, and the fiber necessary to deliver FTTP service directly to customers� homes and businesses. XGSPON is a state-of-the-art Passive Optical Network PON technology that could scale up to 10 Gbps for both upload and download ie symmetrical data speeds. The base speed fiber offering provides 200 Mbps/200 Mbps download/upload speeds, and the top-end service will be at least a 2 Gbps symmetrical i.e. 2 Gbps upstream and 2 Gbps downstream speed service or higher. Our South Carolina BEAD project is a fiber-to-the-home project to reach 118 broadband serviceable locations.   The network will construct 185 miles of fiber with 162 of those miles buried and 23 aerial, where we will overlash new fiber-optic plant to existing Brightspeed infrastructure currently installed on existing poles where feasible. This allows Brightspeed to utilize existing rights of ways and easements, reduce construction costs, and lessen potential environmental impact by avoiding unnecessary ground disturbance.  For the area that must be buried, 90% of the buried portion of the network deployment in this project will be placed in conduit.  We expect that about 10 percent of the buried fiber will be buried directly, and that placement is typically limited to placement in a right of way.  The placement for our fiber in the right-of-way is typically direct buried and we use directional boring.  We follow typical industry standards for average interval distances between access points.  The access points are usually hand holes.