Across the nation, school districts are recognizing how students in rural America have limited access to quality Internet. Quality internet means high speed at normal rates. While highly populated cities can provide fiber and coax broadband to the home, rural communities continue to lag decades behind. Faced with this marginalizing limit, Pullman Public Schools has been researching and is working on a solution using CBRS fixed radios combined with backhaul microwave links to support our students in the hinterlands. We are taking a template approach using open-source tools and public data to engineer a solution targeted at the National Telecommunications and Information Agency's BEAD funding with the goal of including a cookie-cutter approach.
