How KUB Will Make High-Speed Broadband Internet Available to its Customers
Adam Crocker
Manager
Fiber Optic Construction
Knoxville Utilities Board
Monday, May 9, 2022
11:30 a.m.
Crowne Plaza Hotel
401 W Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville
Price for lunch is $13 (includes complimentary parking in the hotel garage).
If you choose not to eat, a charge of $7 covers parking and event arrangements.
The hotel now offers its traditional, delicious luncheon buffet again.
The meeting will be called to order at 11:55 a.m.
Providing fiber-optic broadband internet service at symmetrical 1-Gigabit per second will be a major effort taking several years to complete. The Knoxville Utilities Board (KUB) has over 473,000 customers and serves not only Knoxville but parts of seven surrounding counties.
Adam Crocker’s team is responsible for fiber-optic aerial and underground construction, all fusion splicing and service installation.
Adam will discuss KUB’s broadband division and outside plant fiber-optic construction techniques. He will highlight municipal broadband fundamentals, passive optical network architecture, means and methods of construction, fusion splicing, and troubleshooting.
Adam moved to Tennessee from New York at age six and grew up in Tellico Plains, where he came to know and understand rural living. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in Electrical Engineering. He started his engineering career at ATT, where his passion for communications was ignited.
Adam enjoys spending time with his wife and two children. He and his family can be found outdoors regularly, hiking, four-wheeling or at youth sporting events.