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# How Corning is Making Fiber Available for BEAD Winners
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/how-corning-is-making-fiber-available-for-bead-winners/
- Published: 2026-08-12T19:01:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T09:49:10.000Z
- Description: Fellow U.S. fiber manufacturer Psyrmian announced Wednesday it was spending $1 billion to expand its capacity at four facilities
- Author: Jake Neenan
- Tags: Fiber, #with-siderail, Mountain Connect, Corning, Bob Whitman, AFL, Lightera, Prysmian, BEAD, Todd Way, Douglas Fast Net, Ashley Travers

DENVER, Aug. 12, 2026 – Corning is staggering shipments of fiber for Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment projects to match deployment schedules.

It’s an effort to ensure supply that could be used by another award winner isn’t collecting dust in a warehouse, said **Bob Whitman**, Corning’s vice president of market development. He spoke at Mountain Connect here in Denver.

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