What if your next fiber build could be faster, smarter and more predictable?
Join Millennium, CommScope and ProTek Fiber for a one-hour Fiber Broadband Association webinar on Tuesday, October 20 at 2:00 PM ET.
Every fiber build carries risk that has nothing to do with whether the design is sound. A key component goes on backorder. A shipment arrives wrong. Crews hit rock, or installs back up behind splicing work.
In a grant-funded build, each of those delays also tests budgets, reporting deadlines and the patience of communities waiting to get connected.
A real build, told by the people who built it
ProTek Fiber started in 2016 with a single fixed wireless tower in a backyard outside Marion, Illinois. Today it builds fiber to rural homes, schools and businesses across southern Illinois, where a mile of construction can reach a single subscriber.
On October 20, ProTek Fiber joins CommScope and Millennium to talk through a recent multi-phase expansion: how the team planned materials, standardized its network and worked with partners to keep construction moving.
What you'll hear:
- Planning before the first crew rolls. How ProTek Fiber approached materials across several grant-funded project areas, and why timing the order mattered as much as the order itself.
- Standardizing where it counts. Why using one connection point across the network matters for install crews, repairs and the spare inventory a network needs over its lifetime.
- What partnership looks like in practice. What the operator, the manufacturer and the distributor each brought, and what other builders can borrow for their own projects.
Who should attend
This session is built for the people who carry a build's timeline and budget: ISP owners and operators, network planners and engineers, project managers, and procurement leads. If you're preparing for a grant-funded or privately funded build in the next year, it's worth the hour.
Where Millennium fits
Millennium helps broadband teams plan, source, finance and build fiber networks. In ProTek Fiber's story, our role sat mostly behind the scenes: making sure the right materials showed up at the right time, so construction could keep pace with the plan.
We're proud to share that story alongside the customer who lived it and the manufacturer whose products are in the ground.
Save your spot
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT
Length: One hour
Host: Fiber Broadband Association
Featuring: CommScope, ProTek Fiber and Millennium