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Growing and Upgrading the MBC Network






In 2010, MBC was awarded $32 million for three projects from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Broadband Stimulus Program, through the NTIA/BTOP program. $16 million was for a project to connect all of the K-12 schools in southern Virginia that did not already have a fiber connection. The second project was a $10 million grant to extend MBC’s open-access fiber-optic network through rural southeastern Virginia connecting community anchor institutions and telecom providers to the network. The third project was in partnership with the Virginia Tech Foundation for $6 million that built a new fiber route from Blacksburg, Virginia to Bedford, Virginia. Thanks to MBC’s highly capable in-house project management team and our contractors, those projects were completed on-time and under budget. These grant builds were completed in 2013 and added 700 miles of fiber to the MBC network.

In 2015, the Infinera DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform was deployed on the MBC network, which enabled MBC to offer terabit connection for the first time. The Mid-Atlantic Research Infrastructure Alliance (MARIA), a non-profi­t corporation that brings together the major research universities in Virginia to build a cyberinfrastructure, partnered with MBC and co-invested in this upgrade to support their 100 Gbps connections to Internet2 and their collaboration with other Research & Development institutions.

Virginia Beach was announced in May 2016 as the location for the first transoceanic fiber cable landing station in the Mid-Atlantic United States to support MAREA, a partnership among Microsoft, Facebook, and Telefónica. The City of Virginia Beach partnered with MBC to build a robust fiber and conduit infrastructure to support the cable landing station. The project was completed in 2017, and the first subsea cable was turned up in Virginia Beach in mid-2018.

Many upgrades were made to the MBC network in 2017. A new Infinera chassis was installed in a Richmond area POP to allow MBC to provide new services in Southern Virginia, provide an additional hand off for long haul services and reduce latency. Additionally, a third Infinera route to Ashburn was completed to provide MBC additional long-haul capacity into Northern Virginia.

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