Christian Breidenbach-Kaack, CEO of agnoss, says his company learned key lessons in Europe that can save American MDU owners big frustration.
By Brad Randall, Broadband Communities
With a playbook adapted for an efficient rollout in the US market, agnoss CEO Christian Breidenbach-Kaack says the level of services agnoss can offer to multi-dwelling units offers clear advantages as a one-stop shop for network design, construction, operation, and maintenance.
The company, which has roots in Germany, is known worldwide for developing fully integrated problem solutions. Additionally, the company’s name is a play on words, short for “agnostic networks,” according to their company website.
Speaking on Beyond the Cable, a Broadband Communities podcast, at Connected America last month, Breidenbach-Kaack said some of the lessons they’ve learned from Europe can help provide return on investment for fiber-to-the-unit.
With fiber-to-the-unit deployments, Breidenbach-Kaack said communication can’t be understated in its importance.
“What we do is we invite the residents to see how the fiber’s been deployed to their unit,” he said.
Additionally, he said education of residents can help stakeholders understand the fiber deployment process from beginning to end.
Breidenbach-Kaack said in the past agnoss has hosted demonstrations for residents, to show them where the fiber is deployed in a multi-dwelling unit, also known as an MDU.
He says it’s part of agnoss’s gained experience over the years.
“We went through all the mistakes at the beginning and now we are able to adapt our playbook from Europe to the United States,” he said.
He also highlighted the company’s one-stop-shop mindset for their clients.
“We do the network design, we do the permitting, we do the installation, and later on we are offering the maintenance of a network,” he said, before speaking about the company’s current work with managed Wi-Fi.
Listen to the full interview with Breidenbach-Kaack on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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