St. Louis, MO, September 11, 2023 – Arcadian Infracom, a leading digital infrastructure development company headquartered in St. Louis, MO, is pleased to announce that the Pueblo of Laguna, an Arcadian network development partner, has received a Fiber-To-The-Premise (FTTP) award under the Connect New Mexico Pilot Program. The award will allow the Pueblo to bring broadband and high-speed internet to the Pueblo of Laguna people and community. The state-of-the art fiber network will span 193 miles and provide broadband service to all six Pueblo villages.
In keeping with its commitment to help bring broadband to underserved rural and tribal communities, Arcadian assisted the Pueblo in the development of its winning grant proposal and provided network design and consulting services at no cost. Arcadian will continue to provide the Pueblo any assistance requested throughout the project’s construction phase.
Arcadian’s CEO, Dan Davis, added: “We’re extremely pleased to have been able to support the Pueblo of Laguna in their successful FTTP initiative. Our relationship with the Pueblo began almost three years ago, and over that time we’ve worked closely with several Laguna administrations. Pueblo of Laguna Governor Wilfred Herrera, Jr., Laguna Economic Advancement, LLC CEO Jim Hooper, Jr., and K’awaika Hanu Internet Business Manager Kamrin Aragon deserve special credit for their vision and leadership on this project. As we design and develop our long-haul routes, we’re very conscious of our responsibility to help bring affordable bandwidth to underserved communities along the way. This is a great example of what can be accomplished when long-haul and local network providers work together.”
Governor Herrera commented: “The Pueblo of Laguna is appreciative of the support and assistance it has received from Arcadian. The collaboration between Arcadian and the Pueblo of Laguna Broadband Team on this project has proven to be successful. The collective efforts have resulted in a successful application and now a funding award. I wish to thank all those involved, the Broadband Team, Arcadian, and the Pueblo of Laguna Council who authorized this application and further provided the cash matching requirements for the grant that will allow us to complete the design and construction of the FTTP network.”
About the Pueblo of Laguna
The Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico (“Pueblo”) is a federally recognized tribe that has approximately 530,000 acres of land within the State of New Mexico. The Pueblo of Laguna has over 8,700 enrolled members with a total of 4,043 members residing in one of the six Pueblo villages: Laguna, Mesita, Paguate, Encinal, Paraje/Casa Blanca, and Seama. The Pueblo of Laguna administrative and governmental offices are located off of I-40 at Exit 114 in the Village of Laguna, which is about 45 miles west of Albuquerque. The Pueblo provides community services to the Pueblo of Laguna membership, residents, and the community through five essential service departments, the Administrative Services Department, Community Health and Wellness Department, Environmental and Natural Resources Department, Public Works Department, and the Public Safety Department. The Pueblo of Laguna owns several community service entities serving the Pueblo of Laguna community. These include the Laguna Department of Education, Laguna Healthcare Corporation, Laguna Rainbow Corporation, Laguna Housing Development and Management Enterprise, Laguna Construction Company, Laguna Development Corporation, Laguna Utility Authority, and the Laguna Economic Advancement, LLC. K’awaika Hanu Internet, owned by the Laguna Utility Authority will be the Internet Service Provider for the Pueblo’s new FTTP network.
About Arcadian Infracom
Founded in 2018 by seasoned communication industry leaders, Arcadian Infracom is a digital infrastructure development, construction and operations company. Arcadian builds diverse, lower latency long-haul fiber routes connecting major data center locations for its cloud and content customers while providing low cost backhaul to digitally stranded rural and tribal communities for its telecom, cable company, ISP and enterprise customers. Arcadian purposefully routes its fiber through remote rural and tribal communities to help bridge the digital divide in the U.S. Arcadian currently has six long-haul fiber routes under development in the Western U.S. that when completed will add 3,000 route miles of critically needed new fiber infrastructure.
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