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Optical Freedom as a Design Principle: How Ribbon Enables Choice and Supply Chain Resiliency

Pandemic-era shortages are still fresh in many minds. As consumers, we remember empty shelves and long lines driven by panic buying and stockpiling. In telecom, the story played out differently but with the same root cause: factory shutdowns interrupted chip fabrication just as demand for networking and optical equipment surged.

In the Mind of a CXO | Where Did the BEAD Funds Go!?

Cliff Johnson, Broadband Initiative Director at NRECA, and Ribbon’s Marketing & Product Director, Mitch Simcoe, cut through the noise to clarify where BEAD funding truly stands—what has been allocated, where significant dollars remain, and how emerging middle‑mile opportunities are reshaping the competitive landscape.