IdeaTek appears to be like to incorporate world-wide-web to Sedgwick and Burrton
IdeaTek crews have been doing the job this spring to increase the company’s extremely-fast fiber web to hundreds of Cheney inhabitants and enterprises. This expansion programs to supply gigabit speeds at very affordable price ranges.
IdeaTek is devoted to bridging the electronic divide in rural regions by bringing fiber online entry to underserved rural communities. Nonetheless, web accessibility issues extend outside of rural regions, mentioned Daniel Friesen, IdeaTek’s co-founder and chief innovation officer.

“At IdeaTek, we consider each and every group and just about every Kansan warrants accessibility to superior-pace fiber web, and we’re energized to be generating it a truth in Cheney,” Friesen stated. “With fiber, we are delivering a new foundation for innovation, creativity and progress in the age of the digital economic climate.”
IdeaTek has a short while ago developed fiber infrastructure in the close by communities of Colwich, Goddard and Halstead. The enterprise is also at the moment constructing fiber net to Sedgwick and Burrton.
Last year, IdeaTek deployed wireless world-wide-web to Cheney and the bordering rural places. It was designed as a non permanent resolution until eventually fiber could be constructed. Financial commitment in fiber is a scalable option for Kansas’ future progress, Friesen stated. Fiber internet delivers symmetrical upload and down load speeds, scalable capacities for a long time to come, increased trustworthiness, and greater pricing as opposed to recent support providers in the metropolis.
“We establish to the expectations of the long term, not right now,” he claimed. “Fiber net is the gold normal for world wide web connectivity, and we want to convey this technological know-how to as several communities as probable.”
Building will be done in the coming months, bringing residents endless and uncapped speeds of up to 2.5 gigabits for every 2nd. In addition, IdeaTek presents the usefulness of no-deal agreements, giving shoppers far more adaptability.
To celebrate fiber coming to Cheney, IdeaTek will have a ribbon reducing at 11 a.m. June 15. Refreshments will be served and the IdeaTek gross sales staff will be on hand to answer queries about provider ideas.
The team also will be at the Sedgwick County Good parade in Cheney July 12, supplying absent candy and Cheney Cardinals T-shirts.
Based mostly in Buhler, IdeaTek was launched in 1999 by Friesen and 4 substantial university pals. Right now, the business employs over 140 Kansans and is continuing to improve. IdeaTek has deployed a lot more than 4,500 miles of fiber and developed 150 set wi-fi towers, serving buyers in almost 90 Kansas communities.