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Connected Nation
This is Connected Nation – an award-winning podcast focused on all things broadband. From closing the Digital Divide to simply improving your internet speeds, we talk technology topics that impact all of us, our families, and our communities.
The podcast was honored in 2024 with an Award of Excellence for Podcast Series - Technology. This is the highest honor given by the Communicator Awards. More recently, the podcast received an Award of Distinction in 2025. It received the same honor in 2023 and 2022.
Learn more about the national nonprofit behind this podcast at connectednation.org.
Podcasting since 2020 • 209 episodes
Connected Nation
Latest Episodes
What a Danish company now manufacturing in the US can do to help improve broadband buildouts
On this episode of Connected Nation, we ask what the Danish can do to help build out broadband in America? I talk to a rep with Lynddahl Telecom about the product they're now manufacturing in the US to do just that. Recommended l...
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Season 6
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Episode 46
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Special edition: Why Wichita is about to stake its claim in the AI revolution
On this special edition of Connected Nation, we head back to Wichita, Kansas one last time for the AI Interconnection Summit, which took place on Thursday, September 11th. This time we talk with leadership from Stevens Fiber Group a...
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Season 6
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Episode 45
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27:40
Special edition: Two visionaries behind Kansas' digital leap
On this special edition of Connected Nation, we head BACK to Wichita, Kansas for an AI Interconnection Summit.This time, we talk with the woman many credit with greenlighting the FIRST EVER Internet Exchange Point in Kansas and wit...
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Season 6
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Episode 44
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22:22
From metaverse to AI: what’s next for broadband?
On this episode of Connected Nation, we continue our coverage from Mountain Connect 2025 as we sit down with broadband entrepreneur Scott Sampson, CEO of Blueprint Broadband and founder of Light Craft and Mac Mountain to talk about the fast-cha...
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Season 6
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Episode 43
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27:40
Special edition: DE-CIX CEO talks AI, internet infrastructure, and innovation from Wichita
On this special edition of Connected Nation, we head to Wichita, Kansas for a first-of-its-kind event – an AI Interconnection Summit.We begin our coverage with Ivo Ivanov - the CEO of DE-CIX - one of the world’s biggest names when it com...
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Season 6
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Episode 42
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