Clearfield Deploys in the Carolina Hills

Aug. 29, 2012
Country Cablevision has begun deploying Clearfield's (NASDAQ:CLFD) FieldSmart Fiber Scalability Center as part of a fiber broadband network build in the rural mountain counties of Mitchell and Yancey, NC. As part of the deployment, Country Cablevision plans to place more than 100 FieldSmart FSC 288 PON Cabinets throughout its service area. The project is underway, and Country Cablevision expects to begin turning up fiber service in early 2013.Country Cablevision was awarded $25.3 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities (RUS) to provide high-speed Internet services to more than 33,000 people, 1,900 local businesses and 120 community institutions.