Silver Star Communications: Building open-access fiber networks

Barbara Sessions, President of Silver Star Communications, explains why her team is building privately owned open-access fiber networks in Jackson, Wyoming, and Rexburg, Idaho—offering a model that doesn't rely on taxpayer funding while still enabling multiple ISPs to serve residents over a single network.

Sessions shares the real-world challenges of making open access work: educating communities, ensuring the business model is profitable, and deploying the technical backend needed to support multiple providers. With Calix as a long-time partner, Silver Star focuses on delivering a seamless operator and subscriber experience, including the visibility and workflows needed to scale reliably.