CRRBC Central Canada 2022: Keynotes explore link between broadband, community

By Lynn Greiner GEORGINA, Ont. – Last week’s Canadian Rural and Remote Broadband Community Central Canada conference kicked off with a pair of keynotes: one on an international perspective of rural broadband, and one looking at Canada’s landscape. Michael Weening (pictured below), president and chief operating officer at Calix, a supplier of cloud and software platforms and services for communications service providers, first talked about why the best providers for rural and remote areas are not the big guys, but those rooted in the community. “Broadband is all about community,” he said. “I was at a conference about a month ago,...