How to cut broadband construction costs? Automate it

Render Networks is itching to get in on the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) action, especially as deployment costs are going up. The company is hearing concern from state broadband offices that “there’s a real possibility that some of these firms could walk away from money because they just don’t see a way to actually execute against the constraints and still meet all the cost conditions.” Render’s bread-and-butter is a digital construction management platform that aims to automate many of the manual construction processes that go into broadband deployments. Whatever the method may be, Render can serve up a “highly ordered and sequenced set of work tasks,” taking into account the materials and construction crews that are “actually available to do that work,” Laudati said.