DirecTV's big changes and the company that's creating what connects us

In this episode of Connected Nation, host Jessica Denson continues coverage from the 2025 Broadband Communities Summit in Houston. 

First, she sits down with Dawn Intili of DirecTV, who breaks down how the company is reshaping its services for the modern streaming era and expanding into multifamily dwellings with flexible, cost-effective options. 

Then, Jessica chats with Scott Garnder and Duane Lyons of Dura-Line, who explain how fiber pathways are being built smarter — and how something called “FuturePath” could transform broadband deployment.

Tune in for insights on how infrastructure and content delivery are evolving — and how both are working to serve communities better than ever.

Recommended Links:

DirecTV site for MDUs
Dura Line website

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:06 Meet Dawn Intili from DirecTV
• 3:01 Standing Out in the Streaming Market
• 6:34 Dawn’s Career Path & Marketing Approach
• 10:39 Meet Dura-Line: Building Broadband Pathways
• 12:09 Jetting, FuturePath & Fiber Innovation
• 17:59 Demand, Deployment & What’s Next
• 21:56 Final Takeaways

Transcript

Jessica Denson (00:07):

We continue our coverage now from the Broadband Community Summit. And on this episode I talk with a representative from DirecTV who says, the company is not what your mother or father remember it being. Find out what DirecTV is up to and what they've got planned for the future. Plus, I talk with a representative from Duraline about what it means to create what connects us. I'll explain. I'm Jessica Desen and this is Connected Nation. I am at the Broadband Community Summit taking place in Houston, June 24th and 25th. And, um, this is the first full day of conference and I wandered into the exhibit hall as I want to do, and, um, a wonderful young woman sitting across from me named Dawn in Tilley. Am I saying that right? You are. Uh, I always ask people <laugh>, I was sitting right across from me and she said, hello, and I said, Hey, would you like to be my first interview of the conference? Welcome, Dawn. Dawn Intili (01:06):

Thank you so much. I'm happy to be here. Jessica Denson (01:08):

Yeah. So tell me, um, what you do with, uh, DirecTV, your role and, um, what DirecTV's mission is Dawn Intili (01:16):

For, for this particular event. We'll talk about that. Okay. So I, um, I'm the marketing arm Jessica Denson (01:21):

Uhhuh, Jessica Denson (01:21):

Right. Dawn Intili (01:22):

And we have our sales team here today talking about multi-family solutions for, uh, condos and, and, and perplex, uh, complexes. So I do all things marketing and advertising for our 29,000 points of distribution. I manage eight different channels, um, and how we bring to life our messaging, our positioning, and make sure it's relevant for the consumer. Jessica Denson (01:42):

Mm-hmm Dawn Intili (01:43):

<affirmative>. So, um, I've been doing this probably almost 10 years. Oh, wow. And love every single minute of it. So it's, it's great. You know what they say, you have to love your job every day. Jessica Denson (01:53):

Yeah. Then you never feel like you work. Right, Dawn Intili (01:55):

Exactly. Jessica Denson (01:55):

Yeah. Uh, so talk about that multi-family dwellings, why that's important and, um, I've heard a lot of people talk about it at this conference in particular. Yeah. Why is that? Dawn Intili (02:04):

So when you think about, you know, the extended reach from an internet perspective, DirecTV, a lot of people associate us as being a satellite company, right? Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Old and cold <laugh>, you had to put some infrastructure into buildings. Well, that's no longer the case. We have the right bulk internet Jessica Denson (02:21):

Solution mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (02:23):

That we really wanna get out into to the mainstream and let, um, apartment dwellers know and apartment owners and, um, HOAs know that they don't need an infrastructure. We now have a solution based on whatever internet you're using. Jessica Denson (02:36):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (02:37):

We have a solution for your, for your, uh, video needs Jessica Denson (02:41):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (02:41):

And, um, with our bulk pricing, it's extremely, extremely competitive. And I'm proud to say that I feel that we have a very big differentiation within the marketplace than any other video subscriber out there in the United States. Okay. Well expand upon that. Why, why do you say that? Yep. Um, it has a lot to do with our regional sports network. Jessica Denson (03:00):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (03:01):

We're a leader in sports, um, in addition to our local channels, in addition to our pricing structure and what we offer. So we have five different packages that we offer. Jessica Denson (03:10):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (03:11):

Um, from a bulk perspective, our DirecTV stream bulk for multifamily, uh, dwelling units is phenomenal. Jessica Denson (03:17):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (03:18):

And, um, we allow the, the subscriber to either stay at that base level and they can bolt on with HBO or Showtime, like incredibly low pricing, Jessica Denson (03:28):

Uhhuh, <affirmative>, Dawn Intili (03:29):

Um, and then they can also catapult up to other packages based on what their entertainment needs are. So we have a solution for everybody, and not everybody offers the ability to have local and regional sports with the various different entertainment packages that we offer. Jessica Denson (03:42):

That's a big deal. I can tell you my family are, are Thunder fans and <laugh>, um, uh, Dallas Cowboy fans. Nice. And so in that area, they're very much like, we need to have our regional sports and the same thing. I live in Louisville, Kentucky now and there everything is regional and that's what they care about. Um, full disclosure, I have DirecTV <laugh> at my home. Dawn Intili (04:03):

Thank Jessica Denson (04:03):

You. Thank you. And I'm like, I'm, I'm a little old fashioned in that I love to be able to scroll through channels. Um, I do have the other big, the other big streaming platforms, but I have DirecTV. So do you find that there's like a, some kind of generational thing of understanding of what DirecTV is? Is it different for some of the younger generations? Dawn Intili (04:21):

It is. And so, you know, a lot of our studies say that, you know, um, we have different solutions based on the genre type, right? So we have my free DirecTV for those cord cutters and cord nevers mm-hmm <affirmative>. Then we have our genre packs that allow you to have skinny bundles based on what's relevant to you. And then we have our traditional, uh, signature packages is what we call it mm-hmm <affirmative>. And that's primarily what the bulk opportunity is, but the pricing is incredible. Going back to what you said about scrolling and stuff like that, what we're finding is we wanna make sure that we are aggregating our content in one Jessica Denson (04:54):

Place. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (04:55):

And so if you look our, our experience, whether it be satellite or or streaming, it is so unbelievably poignant from a ui ux perspective. A lot of great things went into it. So as you evolve into the platform, you have a lot of SVAs that come in. Like, you can go to HBO Max, you can go to Showtime, you can go to Netflix Prime, et cetera without leaving, right? Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Nobody offers that today. So you have everything in one place and it learns about what content's relevant to you, and you can actually have five different profiles on your account that allows you to say, you know what? I'm interested in this, this is what's gonna be like for me, I love HGTB, right? So it may render something back that's gonna be relevant to a different channel that I'm not seeing today, but has the same type of content. So we're excited about that. Is Jessica Denson (05:43):

That kind of where AI can come in, where it follows your, I mean, people talk about AI now, but there's a lot of examples of AI through the last decade, I think. Yeah. Um, is that kind of, is that what DirecTV's looking at it or there, is there anything exciting that's ahead that you guys Dawn Intili (05:58):

Are looking at with that? Yeah, we have, we have some things in the pipeline. I, I can't unfortunately can't tell you about it, but <laugh> Jessica Denson (06:02):

It's all right. Dawn Intili (06:03):

Yeah. Like everybody else, we're all learning together, Uhhuh, but we definitely have some, some great modeling and it's gonna continue to evolve and be even more intuitive one-on-one type of messaging and positioning on our platform for the specific individual. Jessica Denson (06:16):

Well, I'll tell you, for the younger generations, it was a, it was in a American pastime, just <laugh> to go through all the channels. Yes. So, Dawn, I love to ask every one of my guests a little bit about themselves. Dawn Intili (06:26):

Sure. Jessica Denson (06:26):

So, uh, you definitely have a northern accent. You're not from Texas, which is where we're at now, so mm-hmm <affirmative>. Where are you from and how did you get involved with DirecTV? Dawn Intili (06:34):

Yep. So I actually live in Atlanta now, and I'm from New York. So going back to what you said earlier Jessica Denson (06:41):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (06:41):

The Yankees is very prevalent to me. Jessica Denson (06:43):

Oh, yeah. Dawn Intili (06:44):

So I have the Yankees in Atlanta, so that's a great thing through DirecTV. Um, my engagement with DirecTV is actually, I started with at and t in 2003, Uhhuh, Jessica Denson (06:54):

<affirmative>, Dawn Intili (06:54):

And, um, kind of went through the whole purchase of DirecTV and now they're divestiture. Um, we are a standalone company now. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Um, at and t has spun off us off, and I love it. It's just the culture there, the leadership, um, it's, it's invigorating. Do you know? It's really uhhuh and when you think about mainstream, you think about corporate America. Um, I'm very proud to be at DirecTV. Jessica Denson (07:18):

That's awesome. That's fantastic. So being at one of these conferences, there's everybody from the high tech people who really understand that deep dive that you might take to, um, community leaders. Uh, who are you excited to talk about, talk to this weekend? Dawn Intili (07:34):

You know, Jessica Denson (07:34):

Or this week, excuse me. Dawn Intili (07:35):

Honestly, it's really getting our positioning out there to the, um, HOAs, to the building owners, to the management companies Jessica Denson (07:42):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (07:43):

Um, that we have a really unbelievably different solution that we aren't thinking about today. Right. Um, the ability to service a tenant, um, is, you know, our desire to, to make sure that from a mainstream perspective, the ISPs, the internet service providers mm-hmm <affirmative>. We have a solution. Because primarily what we see in the marketplace is about 40% of people who buy internet wanna bundle it with something else. Jessica Denson (08:10):

Yeah. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (08:11):

And so we wanna make sure, you know, from a household name perspective and recognition, DirecTV is a very good brand. And so the ability to have that loyalty and accuracy with other ISPs bring it to the forefront is really important. But it's also for the building owners benefit to know we've got a solution that will give them profit mm-hmm <affirmative>. And show them profitability and, um, we're excited about it. Jessica Denson (08:35):

So, something you said there, uh, really sparked another question. So I take it DirecTV works with ISPs all across the country, big and small. Yes. Is there a different approach that you would take to a large ISP as opposed to like, uh, some of the mom and pops you find in places? Dawn Intili (08:49):

Yeah, I'll take it from a marketing lens, Uhhuh. 'cause that's primarily where I play in this space, of course. So it depends, it depends on the sophistication of the company. I have some ISPs that only have 200 subscribers, 200, but then I have really large corporations where they have a dedicated marketing team. Jessica Denson (09:06):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (09:06):

So what I love about my job is that everybody's unique and different and how we go to market and what our approach is and what I, what is the strategy, right? Jessica Denson (09:13):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (09:14):

Um, one of the things that I always make sure I look for when I talk to ISPs is what is that better together message with DirecTV and with their brand? So they're not losing their brand integrity, but we're bringing together collaboration Jessica Denson (09:27):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Dawn Intili (09:27):

And a solution that really helps the tenants. Jessica Denson (09:30):

All right. Well, is there anything that you really would want, um, our audience to take away from this conversation? Whether they're a potential customer or somebody who owns a, a, a large dwelling, uh, or multi-dwelling, I'm sorry, multi-family dwelling. Yes. Uh, what would you want them to remember about DirecTV? Dawn Intili (09:47):

Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, I would love for them to contact our multifamily, um, department. Um, you can go to directv.com/mdu, um, and, you know, learn about our product seeing as believing, right? Mm-hmm <affirmative>. The proof is in the pudding. Sometimes there's variables that you can't really identify until you actually try it. I encourage everybody to look at the demos and, and look to see how we can help them with the, the right solution for their tenants. Jessica Denson (10:15):

Okay. I'll include a link to that. Um, I'll include a link in our description of our podcast to what you said, DirecTV back slash Dawn Intili (10:23):

And Mark Cunningham. And Mark Cunningham is our, um, senior director for sales. I'll give you his information as well. Okay. And you can have his phone number and have, uh, folks reach out directly to him. Again, I will put that in the description of the podcast. Great. Thank you so much Don and Tilly. Thank you so much. Yeah. Jessica Denson (10:39):

One note before we continue to our next interview, the address for DirecTV's, actually DirecTV mdu Dawn asked that I'd let you know. Um, I am back in the exhibit hall and I was walking around and I saw these really interesting, um, booth that has all these orange piping and different colors. Um, I, and they're called Duraline. And I asked if I could speak to somebody from here and Dwayne didn't wanna do it. So I'm talking to Scott. Uh, Scott, introduce yourself to our audience, please. Scott Gardner (11:12):

I'm Scott Gardner and I'm the director of strategic accounts for Duraline. Jessica Denson (11:16):

Um, great. And so tell me a little bit about what Duraline does. I imagine it has something to do with fiber or something along those lines. Scott Gardner (11:23):

Yep. Duraline is a manufacturer of HDPE, conduit and Micro ducks and FuturePath, which are some of the products we're displaying here today. And basically this allows companies like cable, TV companies, telephone companies to bring fiber, uh, to all the people that need it for all their bandwidth needs. Jessica Denson (11:40):

So I know our audience, uh, can't see what we're doing, but I will take some pictures and include that with a podcast. So what we've got here, I'm just gonna try to describe it, you helped me out a little bit, is a, um, a kind of a, uh, glass type case that has a bunch of different, um, tubing in it, Scott Gardner (11:57):

Correct? Yep. Well, we call it conduit or pathways. Jessica Denson (11:59):

Okay. There you go. Give me the technical stuff. Yep. 'cause we do get some technical people on this pod that listen to the podcast. So what are the different, why does it matter what these different sizes are and these different textures? Scott Gardner (12:09):

Yep. Great question. So we have everything from a small conduit half inch up to really six inch conduit that you could put a fiber cable or even a power cable in. But we also have some of these multi-cell pathways that, that might contain multiple micro ducts under a single sheath. And you'd be able to put a fiber cable, this particular one, you could probably put a 72 fiber cable in each of those, uh, seven pathways there. And that would allow you to build your network over time. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. So you can put a fiber cable in today, and then as demand grows, you could fill up your second pathway, the third microduct, the fourth, and so on. So it allows you to build over time. And that's really where the name came from, is future path because it gives you a pathway to build for now and for the future. Jessica Denson (12:52):

So, but these would be buried under underground, Scott Gardner (12:54):

Correct? That is correct. Most of these products are buried. We do offer a few aerial products that would go up on, uh, poles of course, but the vast majority of our product is for underground applications. Jessica Denson (13:03):

So the one thing that Scott was using, an example is about, I would say an inch and a half wide. And each little thing is probably, what, a, a quarter Scott Gardner (13:12):

Of an inch that's about 12.7 millimeters uhhuh, so about about half an inch, uh, for each of those. Yeah. Jessica Denson (13:16):

So that's pretty incredible how much data can flow if you're one of those small little guys. Scott Gardner (13:22):

<laugh>? Well, that, that's depending on the fiber cable you have in there. And of course that's dependent on the electronics you have. But you can, you can absolutely pack gigabytes of material down each fiber. So that's why everybody's gone with fiber. It's the, the best medium to transmit a lot of data quickly and efficiently. Jessica Denson (13:37):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. So sior sior is the future path of sior. That's not the company, that's the type of product you guys are Scott Gardner (13:45):

Doing. Well, that's the lining. If you look on the inside of these micro ducks, you'll see a white lining. Oh Jessica Denson (13:49):

Yeah. Scott Gardner (13:50):

And there's ribs inside of there. So the ribs simply minimize the contact with the cable. So whether you're pushing, pulling, or jetting the cable, that's gonna give you a lower coefficient of friction. Jessica Denson (14:00):

That little tiny bit does the Scott Gardner (14:02):

Little ribs. But then those ribs are actually covered in a, in the material called sior. And it's ultra low friction material that you can think of it like a Teflon pan. So it really reduces the coefficient of friction. So the ribs are less contact, but the ribs are covered in a Teflon like material, or really are sior ULF ultra low friction material. And that just allows you to jet or pull further and faster. Jessica Denson (14:25):

So did you guys just see an issue with that and were like, we need to find a solution to this. Is that what led to that? Scott Gardner (14:30):

Yep. And in fact, some of our standard conduit has mm-hmm <affirmative>. A, a white lining. That piece doesn't, but some of it does. But we, we realized we had to make installations easy. Yeah. There's a piece, so you can kind of feel that white lining in there. Oh, yeah. And that just really reduces the coefficient of friction. Very important when you're going around bends, uh, because you can actually, if you're pulling cable in, you can actually pull the pull tape through the conduit, saw it in half if it has too much friction. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. So this prevents that from happening. And then we're, when we're in the micro ducts in a future path or a single micro duct, you're typically only jetting at that point. So you're using air, uh, to push that cable in or really floated in, we say, uh, but again, the cable is touching the inside wall, so that reduces the coefficient of friction allowing you to jet further and faster and without damaging the cable. Jessica Denson (15:17):

So how deep are these generally buried? Is it like a foot, five feet? Scott Gardner (15:20):

Typically, you're a few feet down uhhuh, that depends on what other infrastructure you have around. But, um, you know, typically gas and water would be the deepest. And then these are gonna be, you know, a few feet, uh, underground. Jessica Denson (15:32):

And how does it deal with things like permafrost or water or anything like that? Is it, is it meant to be weather resistant? Scott Gardner (15:41):

Yes. Well, first of all, these are buried. So the ground Yeah. Protects 'em once they're buried. Uh, but it'd be fine to have it above ground for maybe a year. Uh, but most customers get it in the ground pretty quickly after Jessica Denson (15:51):

That. So is, forgive my ignorance, if there's a flood and it soaks the water, soaks the land, it's, it's, it's fine. Scott Gardner (15:59):

Yeah. If you're a couple feet down, um, it's not just gonna float to the top. Now if you buried it two inches down, it might float to the top or something. Yeah. But, uh, Jessica Denson (16:07):

But it's, but it, it's impermeable. Scott Gardner (16:09):

It is. Okay. HDPE is, uh, very, uh, it's a very inert material. It's better than PVC, it doesn't leach out. Jessica Denson (16:15):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Scott Gardner (16:16):

Uh, this will last for, you know, decades in the ground, typically, depending on the, the condition of the soil. Jessica Denson (16:21):

Okay. So now, uh, you're, you're talking to a novice, obviously at the very, very d Dwayne keeps going there, going, I know you're not his assistant, but I can't help it if you keep pulling out things and you're looking at me like, what is she asking? <laugh>, <laugh>. But, um, what about for the highly technical thing people? What are some of these things that they would understand here that are, um, important that Duraline does differently than another company that maybe, uh, handles these types of things? Scott Gardner (16:50):

Yep. We have a full line of products. So everything from Standard Duck to Future Path to Microduct, we have a full line of accessories. Those are some of these items here. So, you know, this future path, we can put 5,000 feet on a reel, which is almost a mile, but you come to the end of that reel and you need to keep going, you've gotta have a way to couple it up. So we sell all these couplers. We actually make our own pull tape that can be used, um, mostly in standard conduit, but have a full line of products. And then we also have a full line of, uh, or full group of engineers rather, that come out and help support this. So mm-hmm <affirmative>. We have factories all over the country. I think we have 11 factories in the us, two in Canada. Um, so that saves our customers on freight. 'cause as you'll notice, all of this stuff is full of air. Jessica Denson (17:33):

Yeah. Scott Gardner (17:33):

And it's not very cheap to ship air around <laugh>. So it helps to have a great factory, uh, foot, a national footprint for our factories Jessica Denson (17:39):

Around. So. Oh. So let's talk a little bit about, um, the supply chain right now with, you know, beads kind of in this weird space right now. We all know that some new rules came out, but there's this move across, across the US to build, build, build. Is there, are you keeping up with demand? Is there some challenges to that? How's that going? Scott Gardner (17:59):

That's a great question. I think with, we're still seeing most of our customers continue to be a build. I like to think of bead as it's gonna kind of throw gas on the fire. But, uh, spectrum's continuing to build, uh, xfinity's, continuing to build. Most of our customers are doing a good build, a bit of building now mm-hmm <affirmative>. But I think if bead were to get approved and they were to spend money that would just add fuel to the Jessica Denson (18:20):

Fire. Yeah. And, um, what about technicians? Do you guys, are you guys the ones who lay it for them or you just provide the materials and then maybe guidance? Or how Scott Gardner (18:30):

Does that work? We we're a manufacturer, so we manufacture this. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. We don't install it, but we have application engineers who either, uh, know how to install it or some of 'em actually were installers. So we would come and help, uh, contractors and installers if they don't, if they're not familiar with it, how to install it correctly. Obviously most of these products have been out for a while. So many of the contractors are, are very familiar with how to install it. They're well-versed. And we partner with some of the jetting companies around here, uh, as well, because, um, a lot of times you need a fiber cable, you need jetting machine, and then you need these conduit Jessica Denson (19:02):

Micro, what do you mean by jetting? Scott Gardner (19:03):

So it's a, it's a unit that actually pulls the fiber cable off of the reel that it's manufactured on Uhhuh, <affirmative>. And then, uh, the machine, you use a compressor and push air down, so you're literally jetting. Jessica Denson (19:14):

Oh, okay. Uh, Scott Gardner (19:15):

Or blowing some people call it that, that, uh, fiber cable down one of these micro ducts. Jessica Denson (19:20):

I'm gonna start using that term for all kinds of things. <laugh>, I'm jetting this over here. No <laugh>. That's it. Um, so a lot of people are, the average person knows your T-Mobile's and your Verizons and your at t's, but there are lots of ISPs, internet service providers across the country that are small, that service smaller areas and smaller regions. Do you work with groups on all levels? Scott Gardner (19:42):

We do. We absolutely do. I, I handle, or my group handles the key accounts, which are a lot of the big ones, but we have territory sales managers that go and call on ips or wisps. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Or small telcos, independent telcos, any of those. So we work with all of those customers. Jessica Denson (19:56):

And Scott, I should have warned you before I asked you to do the interview with me, I usually, before I wrap up, I try to ask a little bit about the person I'm talking to so people know. Oh, okay. I, I get who Scott is. Tell me a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in this industry. Scott Gardner (20:11):

Okay. Well, I came outta college as an electrical engineer from the University of Tennessee. And then I went right to work for, uh, a company that was called Alcatel at the time. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. And they were manufacturing fiber optic cables. So, uh, I worked for them for about 12 years. Worked in their cable plant and actually in the plant that also draws the glass. So pretty cool to be able to, that Jessica Denson (20:31):

Is cool. Scott Gardner (20:31):

I work in a cable plant and a fiber plant. Jessica Denson (20:34):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Scott Gardner (20:34):

And then I, and then I realized, hey, I can, uh, come to work for DUR Line in Knoxville, Tennessee. And that was my home. So that's a little bit about how I got from, uh, where I started Jessica Denson (20:42):

There to my time with dur. So youve been there decades, huh? For and what Scott Gardner (20:44):

About 20 years? I've been with Jessica Denson (20:44):

Dur years. What about Dwayne? Does he just follow you around there? Duane Lyons (20:48):

<laugh>? Absolutely. I'm trying to learn just, just the knowledge that he has. I'm trying to have it drip off on me. Jessica Denson (20:53):

Yeah. <laugh>, I'm just kidding. What do you do, Dwayne? Duane Lyons (20:56):

With the company? I, I handle state of Texas uhhuh. And, uh, I was a territory manager, but now I kind of focus on the key accounts, which falls under Scott, um, you know, the at t's and such. And, and, uh, we also have a TSM that handles distributors, which what you're talking about, uhhuh. <affirmative>, that's how we put our product out, was through distribution. A lot of those guys have Booth here also. Some of our key distributors do like Net Seed and Uck and those guys, Jessica Denson (21:21):

Uhhuh, <affirmative>. Duane Lyons (21:21):

Um, yeah. And then I've, we have a whole series of field application engineers, which you mentioned that go out in the field and actually will help train contractors and such on how to install the products. We don't get paid for that. It's a free provide. Jessica Denson (21:37):

That's a great benefit though. It's the, yeah. Duane Lyons (21:39):

The, the Academy, all that stuff is all included in the price. Jessica Denson (21:42):

That's awesome Duane Lyons (21:43):

So far. Jessica Denson (21:43):

Yeah. So Dwayne, just for our audience sake, says Scott's the podcast guy, but he's been helping and putting things out and everything. So, uh, what do you hope to get out of being here and why are you here this weekend? At the Broadband Community Summit or this Scott Gardner (21:56):

Week, we're here to support, uh, all our customers. 'cause many of the folks that are here or putting on this show, or our sponsors of it are also our customers. Jessica Denson (22:04):

Mm-hmm <affirmative>. Scott Gardner (22:04):

But we're also here to talk to anyone who's not familiar with our products. And so that's why we have it showcased. And we'd love for anybody to come by and talk with us about any of these products and how they can help, uh, help fulfill their network with Fiber. Jessica Denson (22:17):

If a company was interested in, um, learning more, uh, how would they get ahold of Duraline? The best, Scott Gardner (22:22):

The best thing to do is to go to our website, which is www.duraline.com. And there's tons of information there, but if you need a quote on something, you can request a quote on there, or you can find out who your TSM is. So, um, that would be the best way. Jessica Denson (22:37):

TSM Scott Gardner (22:37):

Is territory sales. Jessica Denson (22:38):

Okay. There you go. <laugh>, uh, acronyms. I always make everybody tell me what they are. Scott Gardner (22:43):

Fair enough. Jessica Denson (22:43):

Yeah. <laugh>. Well, I'll include a link to the website and the description of our podcast as well. Thank you so much, Scott and Dwayne with Duraline, I appreciate you. Thank you. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. We will continue our coverage from the Broadband Community Summit on our next episode of Connected Nation. I'm Jessica Sson. Thanks for listening. If you wanna know more about us, head to connected nation.org or find our latest episodes on your favorite podcast platforms.