Gigabit Magazine – August 2019

—

Jody Call,

Chief Technology Officer,

RiverStreet Networks

“ We’ve had to

disrupt our own

internal processes

and ways of

thinking and to

accommodate

and embrace new

technologies”

Under its expansion strategy,

RiverStreet has acquired and merged

with other businesses in the state of

Wilkes County, North Carolina. The

company anticipates that its customer

and account rate will reach 35,000

by the end of this year, following the

completion of further deals, with

25,000 of those customers connecting

to broadband. “The paradigm shift in

the industry is to provide broadband

in the unserved and under-served

areas and to address the digital divide

• we’re looking at that through several
  different ways of infrastructure,” says
  Call. RiverStreet upgrades fiber to
  home, DSL networks, RF cables and
  traditional cable television, and is
  looking into fixed wireless options.
  Part of RiverStreet’s continual
  transformation includes regularly
  evaluating each incumbent vendor
  relationship and their respective
  product roadmaps. These relationships
  and roadmaps have to be aligned with
  the firm’s current and future plans as
  they change – technologies change,
  customer needs change, and cost is
  always an underlying factor. Avoiding
  getting too comfortable in any vendor
  relationship is paramount in how

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