The Office

Headquarters Address:

2000 Kraft Drive, Suite 2200
Blacksburg, Virginia, 24060

Phone: 540-951-4400

Email: info at designnine.com

Business Hours

Monday - Friday: 8am to 5pm (EST)
Saturday, Sunday - Closed
Call us on weekdays up until 5 PM Pacific Time

Design Nine at a glance

Design Nine provides visionary broadband network planning, design, and build out services to our clients.

We have over ninety years of combined staff experience with community telecom and Internet fiber and broadband planning, design, maintenance and management -- more than any other company in the United States. We offer a full range of broadband and Internet  planning, design, and project management expertise and start-to-finish infrastructure services. 

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Design Nine is prepared to help, no matter the size of your community, or the stage of your project.

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Success Stories: nDanville

nDanville has been operational since the fall of 2007, and is the first municipally owned open access, open services network in the United States. Design Nine has been providing open access broadband planning and project management services to the City of Danville, Virginia since the spring of 2006. This is a regional project with a service area not only in the City of Danville but in three adjacent counties. The City had a fiber network in operation for several years that had been used exclusively for government and educational use. Design Nine helped the City specify and select a state of the art network management system, and Design Nine wrote the specifications, and assisted with the RFP procurement process.

All services are provided by private sector service providers, and one of the local service providers delivering services using nDanville has only one complaint: That the City is not connecting new businesses and residents to the network quickly enough. Design Nine continues to provide broadband planning services and financial analyses, and the City has employed Design Nine to assist with a major residential expansion in the summer of 2009.

  • Assist the Danville Utilities Department with the development of a business model that provides for conservative financial management of the network while providing a significant new revenue stream for the City's General Fund.
  • Provide network architecture and system recommendations, including vendor product analysis and recommendations.
  • Assist with the development of grant proposals and RFPs for the purchase of equipment and services. Assist with proposal review and vendor selection as needed.
  • Develop funding strategies for the construction of the network. Identify public and private funding sources, evaluate funding sources, and make recommendations.
  • Provide long term (ten year) financial analyses of the financial performance of the network, including capital expenditures, operational costs, staffing, maintenance, revenue, income, depreciation, service projections, take rates, and cost of debt
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About Design Nine, Inc.

Design Nine projects have included the award-winning nDanville municipal open network, The Wired Road open access network, New Hampshire FastRoads, Rockbridge Area Network Authority network, the City of Eagan, Minnesota open access network, and over two hundred other planning efforts for communities in more than twenty-two states, Canada, and the Caribbean. The senior leadership of Design Nine has extensive, hands-on experience designing and managing telecommunications and broadband systems.

Questions about your project? You should contact us today.