Broadband Stimulus

Opportunity for America

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, $7.2 billion was made available to expand broadband access to unserved and underserved communities across the United States. The initiative is coordinated by the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA).

Anritsu is proud to contribute to Broadband Stimulus with test and measurement instruments that make it easier and faster to deliver the promise of universal high-speed connectivity. Our equipment has been proven at most major carriers and communications industry suppliers in demanding field applications around the globe.

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The Broadband Stimulus Initiative

The “Broadband Stimulus” initiative creates jobs, improves infrastructure and helps the American economy by bringing high-speed communications to underserved rural areas.

Networks must be built out quickly and cost-effectively. Fiber, coax or other connectivity must be deployed to the access level in remote areas where service could not be provided economically in the past. The “last mile” may lie across fields or up mountain slopes to serve a handful of users, with wireless being the only practical choice.

Continuous testing and measurement of links and equipment is an essential part of the process. The above chart shows where Anritsu instruments are at work.