ARE-ON Fiber Expansion Middle Mile

The project deployed middle-mile fiber infrastructure backbone with up to 380 route miles of underground fiber optic cable and fiber connections, to two-year schools. This project expanded the Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network (ARE-ON) to approximately 20 unconnected two year colleges, for the purposes of research, education, telehealth, and emergency preparedness. It also provided additional resources to University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Arkansas Telehealth Oversight & Management (ATOM) network, by transporting data traffic from ATOM aggregation sites to UAMS.