Maple Broadband - PA045
This project consists of fiber-optic line extensions in the towns of Starksboro, Lincoln, and Bristol by WCVT, fiber-optic line extensions by Maple Broadband from in the towns of Ferrisburgh, Vergennes, Waltham, New Haven, Salisbury, and Leicester, as well as the construction of two network hubs/OLTs in the towns of Middlebury and Ripton, respectively, by Maple Broadband and routes between those hubs and eligible BSLs. There are significant routes required to connect outlying eligible BSLs in the Maple Broadband network to the hubs, and Middle Mile routes have been identified accordingly and provision of services to served addresses along those routes that can be served aerially, while keeping the total number of served addresses well within the 20% allowed. Finally the proposal includes route redundancy for resiliency, most notably to connect WCVT's central office in Bristol with its central office in Charlotte.