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Amanda Scherer joins electric co-op broadband panel at TechAdvantage 2025

Breakout session will explore Alabama’s fiber expansion, best practices and key lessons learned

  • Speakers: Amanda Scherer, senior director of business development at Adtran; Scott Hubbert, network operations technician at Freedom Fiber; Nate Merrell, network administrator at Central Alabama Electric Cooperative
  • Topics: Taking fiber further: Lessons learned from providers rapidly deploying rural fiber and improving their grid resiliency 
  • When: Tuesday, March 11, 11 a.m.
  • Where: TechAdvantage, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA https://www.cooperative.com/conferences-education/meetings/techadvantage

When electric co-ops first brought electricity to rural regions in the US, they transformed local economies and improved countless lives. Today, they are helping ensure those same communities thrive in the digital age. By deploying state-of-the-art fiber networks, electric co-ops have given their residential and business members access to the high-quality internet services they need to connect and compete in the 21st century.

In this session, Amanda Scherer will engage in a discussion with electric co-ops with experience in deploying fiber broadband networks. Together, they will explore best practices for deploying and managing networks as an electric co-op and share lessons learned from rapid broadband expansion.