Adtran builds on 30-year legacy of US telecommunications equipment manufacturing through strategic investment to support historic high-speed internet deployment
August 16 2023 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
News summary:
- Adtran invests up to $5 million at its state-of-the-art
manufacturing facility to increase US production capacity of
advanced telecommunications equipment
- Strategic investment creates up to 300 new jobs in Alabama,
building on Adtran’s strong and growing American workforce of more
than 1,400 employees
- As part of this important milestone, Adtran is welcoming White
House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu and Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Communication and Information Alan
Davidson to its 82-acre campus in Huntsville, Alabama
- Announcement makes Adtran first American company to increase
domestic broadband electronics manufacturing for BEAD program
Adtran today announced the expansion of advanced
telecommunications equipment manufacturing at its state-of-the-art
facility in Huntsville, Alabama, to meet the growing demand for
domestically produced network electronics, spurred by the
Biden-Harris Administration’s $42.45 billion Broadband Equity,
Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program and its Made-in-America
policies in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
With a total investment of up to $5 million and the creation of
up to 300 high-quality, good-paying jobs, today’s announcement is
an exciting step forward in Adtran’s decades-long journey to make
communications simpler and more affordable for millions of
Americans.
Adtran is expanding its current US production of optical line
termination (OLT) equipment and preparing to onshore the
manufacturing of optical network terminals (ONTs).
To celebrate this announcement, Adtran is welcoming Mitch
Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President and White House
Infrastructure Coordinator, and Alan Davidson, Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA
Administrator, for a tour of its 270,000-square-foot manufacturing
facility.
“As a leading US telecommunications equipment provider, we look
forward to partnering with state broadband offices and network
operators across the country as they expand secure, high-speed
internet access to millions of Americans,” said Tom Stanton, CEO of
Adtran. “This expansion not only represents a strategic investment
in Adtran’s growing workforce and manufacturing capabilities but
also demonstrates our long-term commitment to strengthening the
domestic supply chain and securing communications networks with
American-made equipment.”
Adtran is excited to welcome new employees to its team and is
committed to investing in their success with on-the-job training
and by extending the same industry-leading benefits it offers its
current employees, including a college tuition reimbursement
program.
Adtran is investing in the community by partnering with local
area schools for its high school apprenticeship program and
developing a co-op program for college students. The diversity of
Adtran’s workforce reflects the diversity of Alabama: People of
color make up over 40% of Adtran’s manufacturing team and one-third
identify as African American. 57% of manufacturing employees are
women, compared to a manufacturing industry average of just
30%.
“This announcement is the latest example of how we’re turning
‘Made in America’ into a reality and expanding manufacturing across
the country,” commented Gina Raimondo, US Secretary of Commerce.
“Thanks to President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, we will
connect everyone in America to high-speed internet networks built
by American workers with American-made equipment.”
“The Internet for All initiative is not just a connectivity
program, it’s a jobs program – for the people who build the
networks and for the people who make the equipment those networks
need,” said Alan Davidson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator. “If network
equipment can be made in America, it should be made in America.
Companies like Adtran are stepping up and answering that call.”
“Access to high-speed internet is no longer a luxury – it is an
essential tool to access education, healthcare and jobs,” commented
Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President and White House
Infrastructure Coordinator. “President Biden’s Investing in America
agenda has made the largest investment in high-speed internet in
our country’s history to ensure all Americans are connected to
affordable, reliable high-speed internet using Made-in-America
materials. Adtran’s exciting announcement today is part of a
manufacturing boom that is creating good-paying jobs and boosting
our economy – including here in Huntsville, Alabama.”
“The Tennessee Valley has long been a national leader in
developing the advanced technologies that support our modern
industrial base. The investments announced today will help ensure
that broadband is able to reach more Americans with equipment made
right here in North Alabama, supporting our economy and the United
States as a whole,” noted Dale Strong, US Representative
(AL-05).
About Adtran ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN and FSE:
QH9) is the parent company of Adtran, Inc., a leading global
provider of open, disaggregated networking and communications
solutions that enable voice, data, video and internet
communications across any network infrastructure. From the cloud
edge to the subscriber edge, Adtran empowers communications service
providers around the world to manage and scale services that
connect people, places and things. Adtran solutions are used by
service providers, private enterprises, government organizations
and millions of individual users worldwide. ADTRAN Holdings, Inc.
is also the largest shareholder of Adtran Networks SE, formerly
ADVA Optical Networking SE. Find more at Adtran, LinkedIn and
Twitter.
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