This week: Calix's Claudia Tarbell and Mary St. John on the platform provider's Broadband Academy and Broadband Success Playbook for Tribes, and how these resources are helping people fund, design, build, operate and market broadband networks.
This episode features Claudia Tarbell, senior engagement manager for tribal and indigenous communities at Calix; and Mary St. John, senior technical trainer at Calix.
We discuss how Calix is helping communities and emerging ISPs launch broadband networks through educational resources including Calix's Broadband Academy, and its Broadband Success Playbook for Tribes. Both resources are a finalist in the digital divide category in Light Reading's Leading Lights awards this year.
We get into the details of the Broadband Academy, how to complete courses, what kind of education and insights Calix is offering through both the academy and its Playbook for Tribes, and more.
Here are a few topics covered in this conversation:
Guests' background and what role a three-foot-tall chicken plays in all of this (01:36)
The "five fundamentals" of Calix's Broadband Academy (03:27)
Number of courses, lessons and participants so far in the Broadband Academy (06:20)
Why Calix released a specific Broadband Playbook for Tribes, what it contains and how it can help tribes spot "red flags" (11:37)
What potential applicants to the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program can get from Calix's educational resources (17:20)
Just one more chicken anecdote... (20:45)
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