How North Dakota Bridged the COVID-19 Home Access Gap
States throughout the country are struggling to find ways to keep their students learning while schools are closed due to the pandemic. But in North Dakota, an astounding 99.8 percent of rural students have home Internet access to continue online instruction. How has this state been so successful at solving the homework gap? The answer […]
Walker joins DCN
DCN (Dakota Carrier Network) has hired Troy Walker as director of sales and marketing in its Bismarck office. In this role, he is responsible for all DCN sales channels, management of commercial and wholesale sales teams, and oversight of the company’s marketing and communications efforts. Additionally, he is part of the organization’s executive team. Walker […]
Schweitzer joins DCN
DCN has hired Wendy Schweitzer as marketing manager in its Bismarck office. In this role, she is responsible for creating, publishing and measuring the effectiveness of DCN’s external marketing, advertising and public relations initiatives, and internal communication. Schweitzer has more than 25 years of experience in marketing as well as public, community, and media relations. […]
Branstner Joins DCN Team
Ross Branstner recently joined DCN’s team as outside plant technician in the Fargo office. Ross will be responsible for the day-to-day process of construction, operation, and maintenance of DCN’s outside plant facilities. Branstner brings over 18 years experience in the industry to DCN, and holds a degree in telecommunications engineering from Northwest Technical College in […]
Multi-layered cybersecurity programs
His son Landen’s basketball team was trailing by 10 a few minutes after tip-off. Director of sales Todd Domres – in this scenario, Coach Domres – called a time out to get the players reorganized, reenergized, and refocused. “We came back to win the game, but after the game we had a post-game huddle,” said […]
DCN’s Domres to represent ND at InfraGard Leadership Academy
BISMARCK, N.D., Nov. 4, 2019 – DCN’s Director of Sales Todd Domres was selected by North Dakota InfraGard to represent the state at an exclusive InfraGard Leadership Academy hosted in conjunction with the FBI/INMA. ND InfraGard fosters collaboration and information sharing between the private and public sectors, including businesses, academic institutions, and local, state, and […]
DCN boosts enterprise network connectivity with next generation SD-WAN services
DCN’s SD-WAN solution delivers improved connectivity, insight, control, and security to support its customers’ digital transformation efforts BISMARCK, N.D., OCT. 31, 2019 – DCN (Dakota Carrier Network) has added software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) to its list of enterprise networking solutions, enabling businesses and governmental entities to centralize the control of all their branches to […]
DCN’s Arndorfer, Heck to represent broadband companies on national network management provider’s board
BISMARCK, N.D., OCT. 15, 2019 – DCN CEO Seth Arndorfer and director of operations Jesse Heck have been appointed to serve one-year terms on the Mapcom Systems Client Advisory Board (CAB). The eight-person board is comprised of executive leaders from broadband companies that have implemented Mapcom’s M4 Solutions network management system. “As our fiber network […]
Cybersecurity education and training “K-20W” Initiative wins national award
This article was originally posted on the ND IT website. Bismarck, ND (Oct. 9, 2019) | The K-20W Initiative, a statewide, comprehensive approach to cybersecurity education and workforce training, has been named a CSO50 Award winner. Code named “K-20W” to reflect every student from kindergarten through PhD and workforce, the K-20W coalition is comprised of […]
DCN delivers one-gigabit internet access to North Dakota K-12 schools
North Dakota becomes first state in the nation to deliver one-gigabit service to all schools. BISMARCK, N.D., AUG. 21, 2019 – DCN (Dakota Carrier Network) completed all one-gigabit internet circuits to K-12 schools on July 23, 2019, positioning North Dakota as the first state in the nation to achieve this milestone according to Gov. Doug […]