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: The Wired Road

Carroll County, the City of Galax, Grayson County, and Crossroads Institute hired Design Nine in January of 2007 to conduct an extensive broadband planning effort for the three Virginia localities.

This project received approval in June, 2007 from DHCD to proceed with implementation, using a regional authority to manage the network. RFPs were issued in August for equipment and services, and customers and service providers will be using the network before the end of 2007. Construction is currently well advanced. The project is now called "The Wired Road."

Carroll-Grayson-Galax selected Design Nine to provide project management for the implementation of Phase One of the network. Design Nine helped the local governments assemble all the financing needed to complete the initial design. Design Nine work has included needs assessment, fiber and wireless infrastructure design, Management Team meetings, broadband education efforts, financial and business planning, and construction estimates. Design Nine's team include wireless and fiber engineers, a telecom lawyer, and broadband business analysts.

  • Identify existing fiber and wireless assets.
  • Develop a regional network design that incorporates existing wireless and fiber projects.
  • Supervise all construction work and provide quality assurance and vendor task management.
  • Identify an appropriate legal entity that will manage all network assets on behalf of the local government partners and that will also manage day to day network operations and maintenance.
  • Perform a detailed financial analysis that includes construction cost estimates, revenue estimates, staffing, maintenance, upgrades, and other network operational issues.
  • Develop a business model for the network that treats each of the three local government partners equitably and provides for new revenue streams for the partner governments.
  • Provide a complete range of project management services, including vendor selection, management of construction, and network design.
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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.