Alyrica and Tarana Wireless Bring High-Speed Broadband to Dallas, Oregon

Alyrica Networks announced that it has successfully completed its Rural Broadband Project, in partnership with Polk County and Tarana Wireless. The project was aimed at bringing affordable high-speed internet to residents throughout the county using Tarana’s next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) broadband solution.

Polk County Commissioners worked diligently with multiple local internet service providers (ISPs) to foster broadband efforts that would quickly bring high-quality internet access to their residents and make the best use of public dollars. Alyrica was selected for their proposal leveraging Tarana’s ngFWA G1 platform. G1 takes a whole new approach that overcomes previous wireless technology limitations thereby delivering reliable high-speed broadband, even in the face of significant signal obstructions and interference.

Alyrica received $795,000 in local grant and American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds from Polk County for the project, and announced their partnership with Tarana in the summer of 2022. Now, five new towers equipped with Tarana ngFWA have made affordable high-speed internet service available to more than 750 underserved county residents, including those located in the well-forested and previously hard-to-reach hills north of Dallas, Oregon.

One Polk County resident reported that their new Tarana-backed service “has been great… faster and cheaper than before!” Another thanked the Alyrica team for “quadrupling their speeds” and “giving us country folks absolutely amazing internet” through the upgraded ngFWA network.