By Light Reading
Publication Date: 2026-11-10 15:31:00
Schurz Broadband Group (SBG), the fiber-broadband division of family-owned Schurz Communications Inc., today announced a significant advancement of its enterprise network infrastructure, with the deployment of Cisco’s next-generation 8000 Series routing platform.
SBG operating companies, Antietam Broadband (Maryland), Long Lines (Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota), NKTelco (Ohio), and Orbitel Communications (Arizona), are standardizing on the compact Cisco 8712 platform and interconnecting through new shared peering points of presence (POP). The initiative will deliver a modern, automated, standards-based architecture designed to support speed, security, and provisioning agility across Schurz’s residential, business, and wholesale offerings — all delivered under the company’s Flight Fiber brand.
SBG is advancing its Flight fiber network to meet scalable industry standards, and enable differentiated, low-latency services, providing a pathway for the next wave of AI-driven…
