{"id":68251,"date":"2017-05-15T21:19:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/digitalglobe-to-provide-elevation-data-for-rise-broadband\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T21:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:19:23","slug":"digitalglobe-to-provide-elevation-data-for-rise-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/digitalglobe-to-provide-elevation-data-for-rise-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"DigitalGlobe to Provide Elevation Data for Rise Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>DigitalGlobe<\/strong> announced an agreement to provide elevation data to <strong>Rise Broadband<\/strong>, a fixed Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP), to enable faster and more efficient deployment of wireless internet services in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>DigitalGlobe will provide Rise Broadband with <strong>Vricon\u2019s<\/strong> high-resolution Digital Surface Model (DSM) data to verify fixed wireless broadband service availability to households and businesses in its market areas before sending installation teams into the field. According to Rise, the combination of Vricon\u2019s elevation products and DigitalGlobe\u2019s satellite imagery gives the company the ability to enhance the performance of its fixed wireless coverage prediction tools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur customer service team will use the tools built around the high-resolution DSM to verify our ability to connect the customer to an access point on a nearby tower, eliminating a large amount of failed installation truck rolls,\u201d said Damon Estep, senior vice president of technology for Rise Broadband. \u201cBy being one of the first fixed wireless internet service providers to embrace high-resolution surface elevation data, we will realize significant savings we can then apply to other parts of our business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DigitalGlobe announced an agreement to provide elevation data to Rise Broadband, a fixed Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP), to enable faster and more efficient deployment of wireless internet services in the United States. DigitalGlobe will provide Rise Broadband with Vricon\u2019s high-resolution Digital Surface Model (DSM) data to verify fixed wireless broadband service availability to households [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}