About the Wired Road
The Future of Broadband in Southwest Virginia
The Wired Road project is using high performance fiber and wireless technologies to provide a broadband connection to every home and business in the Blue Ridge Crossroads region over the next four years.
Broadband connections to households and businesses will provide access to educational resources, expand entrepreneurial and economic development opportunities, provide redundant data paths for businesses, and provide new kinds of work-from-home job opportunities.
For more information about the project, visit The Wired Road website.
A Wide Variety of Services
Wired Road service providers will be offering Internet and telephone services over the wireless part of the network, and the fiber network will be capable of delivering voice telephone, Internet access, and standard and HD television. As the network expands, many other services will become available, including:
- Live HD video
- Movies on demand
- Business videoconferencing
- Telemedicine and telehealth services
- Online gaming
- Computer backup services
- Distance learning
- Editing and storage of home videos
- Security services
Entrepreneurs and Work from Home
The service-based approach will be extremely attractive to business owners and entrepreneurs who can move to the region knowing that workers and staff will all have affordable broadband access from home and from work.
The Blue Ridge Crossroads region will be one of just a few areas of the United States with world class telecommunications services to every home and business. The Wired Road is part of the region's long-range plan to be one of the best locations for business in the United States.
This high-tech "wired road" combined with a mild climate, great quality of life, great musical heritage, unmatched natural beauty, and abundant recreational activities, should make the Blue Ridge Crossroads region is an ideal place for knowledge economy businesses.
Jobs and Businesses
The local governments of Carroll County, Grayson County, and the City of Galax, collectively known as the Blue Ridge Crossroads region of Southwest Virginia, are aggressively undertaking investments needed to transform the area's traditional manufacturing and agriculture economy into a forward-focused economic base capable of creating jobs and increasing wages.
The Blue Ridge Crossroads governments believe that the region needs a world-class digital road system to support existing businesses and to help attract new businesses. The Wired Road is part of an integrated strategy to help create new jobs and businesses. |
