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Digital Divide: A Fireside Chat

Digital Divide: A Fireside Chat

Our just-released fireside chat delves into the infrastructure challenges linked to the digital divide. Listen to Dean Nelson of Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) and our Head of Development, Tyson Johnston, as they discuss how Toptana Technologies is working towards overcoming these challenges and bringing connectivity for all.

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Digital Divide: A Fireside Chat

Our just-released fireside chat delves into the infrastructure challenges linked to the digital divide. Listen to Dean Nelson of Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) and our Head of Development, Tyson Johnston, as they discuss how Toptana Technologies is working towards overcoming these challenges and bringing connectivity for all.

New Ebook: Bridging the Digital Divide to Deliver Connectivity for All

Our just-released animated ebook takes you behind the scenes to see how we’re solving the infrastructure challenges to bridge the digital divide. Read highlights in this blog post, and get your free copy of the ebook.

Digital Infrastructure is the Foundation of the Internet

Bridging the digital divide has to start with infrastructure deployment – first mile, middle mile, and last mile.

Toptana Technologies Announces Appointment of Inaugural Board of Directors to Guide Development of New Cable Landing Station in Washington State

Five accomplished leaders are tasked with governing and operationalizing new cable landing station grounded in bringing connectivity to unserved and under-served markets.

Quinault Indian Nation Announces New Business Venture Named Toptana Technologies

As the First New Cable Landing Station in Washington State in Over Two Decades, Project Aims to Close Digital Divide for Community and Increase Internet Connectivity for the Region

Luxury to Necessity: How Toptana is Becoming Part of the Solution to the Digital Divide

Not too long ago, access to the internet was likely, by many, considered to be a luxury. With the emergence of new technologies such as 5G, AI, AR, VR, self-driving cars, and IoT – not to mention the realities of at-home learning and working during Covid-19 – this outdated view has evolved to reveal that high-speed broadband access is a basic necessity to participate in our modern world.

ESG - A Toptana Technologies Core Value

Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) work has become an increasingly important initiative for businesses in recent years, but these are inherent cultural values to the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) and therefore, Toptana Technologies.

Doing Business with Companies Backed by an Indian Nation

Indian Nations across the United States are sovereign governments. The Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) has possessed full legal sovereignty since time immemorial, as was recognized by the United States in 1855, when the Quinault River Treaty (also known as the Treaty of Olympia) was negotiated. The Quinault govern their own people and territory in matters of legislation, taxation, law enforcement, administration, and regulation. Sovereignty means the QIN governs itself and creates laws that make sense for its population and to be inclusive of their culture.

A Look Towards the Future: What Toptana Means for the Quinault Community

Toptana Technologies launched in 2021 and as an enterprise fully owned by the members of the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) of Washington State. For the QIN people, culture is the bedrock of our community. As such, bettering the lives of individuals in the community and establishing new paths for the tribe’s economic future has been the mission of QIN leadership since the beginning. It is for this reason that QIN actively seeks out new business opportunities that can sustainably fuel the community’s long-term prosperity.

Washington: The New Frontier for Transpacific Subsea Cable

Despite surging demand for connectivity around the world, Washington State has not had a new subsea cable land on its coast in over twenty years – the last one having been landed in 1999. Subsea cable installations are complex infrastructure projects that can take years to complete. The reasons for this are complicated and involve a number of barriers that can either slow the project down or, in some cases, render it impossible. Here are just a few of the main considerations companies must consider as part of a subsea fiber cable project.

Partnering for Success: How an Indigenous Nation Recruited a Subsea Cable Dream Team

Internet access in the Pacific Northwest is more inconsistent than some people may realize. Particularly in rural and sparsely populated areas, the connectivity options are typically far below the standards of speed, bandwidth, and reliability people can expect in urban and suburban areas, and even below the minimum FCC guidelines. As inhabitants of one of the more rural areas of Washington State, the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) has devoted years to the search for improved internet connectivity options on the reservation.

A Rewarding Challenge: Achieving Digital Equity in Rural and Indigenous Communities

Roughly 46 million, or 14% of the country’s population, live in rural America. People living in these areas face unique challenges stemming from their physical isolation, including limited job opportunities and decreased access to goods and services, all of which impact their quality of life. Economic data reflects this problem – Americans in rural and indigenous communities face disproportionately higher levels of poverty compared to their urban counterparts.

Bridging the Digital Divide (Infographic)

In this Infographic, explore the challenges associated with bridging the digital divide - and learn how Toptana Technologies is helping to solve them.

What Sets Toptana Apart in the Subsea Cable Industry

Industry experts John Mariano, President of DRG Undersea Consulting, and Joel Ogren, CEO of Assured Communications, shared their thoughts on just what the promise Toptana Technologies means, and what sets the company apart in the crowded, competitive ICT industry.

Subsea Cable Mythbusters

Toptana's industry partner overseeing design and construction, Assured Communications, helps dispel some of the misconceptions about what goes on with connectivity under the sea, based on their years of telecommunications industry experience. Here are some insights from Joel Ogren, the team's CEO and Business Development and Brian Dahl, COO.

Featured Press

Closing the Digital Divide in Indigenous Communities and Beyond

In ISE Magazine, Tyson Johnston shares insights about Toptana Technologies and how they are working towards closing the digital divide for the Quinault Indian Nation and beyond.

Closing the Digital Divide for the Quinault Indian Nation

Our Chairman, Tyson Johnston, was recently featured on The Buzz with American Council for Technology - Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) podcast, hosted by Colin Larsen. They discuss Toptana's initiatives in bridging the technological gaps for the Quinault Indian Nation and beyond.

5 Things We Must do to Engage the Next Generation About Climate Change, Conservation, and the Environment

If we want to create meaningful and effective change, we must nurture new behaviors and habits from an early age. So how do we engage and educate the next generation about their relationship with our earth and encourage them to be the environmental leaders of a new era? In this interview, Authority Magazine's Martita Mestey spoke with Tyson Johnston to discover five things we can do, starting today.

Indigenous-Owned Internet Infrastructure Company Aims to Close the Digital Divide in the Pacific Northwest

An interview with The Daily Yonder about Toptana's plans to bring connectivity to unserved and underserved rural communities in Washington.

The Quinault Indian Nation is Breaking Broadband Barriers in Rural WA

Fierce Telecom covers how Toptana Technologies is positioning itself as a leader in Washington’s broadband expansion as it works to build the state’s first new cable landing station in over 20 years.

How to Close the Digital Divide

Tyson Johnston explains to Sea Technology Magazine how Toptana Technologies is doing its part to close the digital divide in Washington and beyond.

New Cable Landing Station to be Built on Quinault Land in Northwest US

Data Center Dynamics: A new cable landing station (CLS) is coming to indigenous-owned land on the northwest coast of the US.