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October 28, 2022

Quinault Indian Nation

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Quinault Indian Nation is planning this cable landing station.

The Quinault Indian Nation launched Toptana Technologies, the first Indigenous-owned cable landing station and backhaul network provider on the West Coast. This new venture will bring connectivity to unserved and under-served markets across Washington and Oregon, and extending to surrounding communities, rural areas and other tribal groups. Toptana will provide trans-Pacific network capacity from the Pacific Northwest to Asia-Pacific and Oceania markets, while enabling network access from the coast to the I-5 corridor with onward connectivity to Seattle, and Hillsboro, Oregon. The cable landing station will support four sub-sea cable customers at launch, with the capacity to expand up to 16 over time. Construction of the landing station will begin in mid- to late 2023, and is expected to be operational in 2025. Assured Communications Advisors was selected to be the primary operations service provider and facilitator of sales and industry partnerships. The Quinault Indian Nation is a sovereign Indian nation covering about 210,000 acres, including 27 contiguous miles of coastline, in the Pacific Northwest. Its population consists of the Quinault and Queets tribes and descendants of five other coastal tribes: Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook and Cowlitz.




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