Fiber Strategy Toolkit (1H 2026)The Fiber Strategy Toolkit is an essential strategic resource for anyone building fiber infrastructure. It includes nationwide data from the FCC Fabric v7 December 30, 2025 release (coverage as of 6 30 2025). The Toolkit exploits the FCC's new hexagonal (H3) framework. It includes a long list of fiber related data sets, showing both presence (the existence of the specified service) and depth (the percentage of locations in each hexagon served at the
These represent "unserved service project" and "underserved service project" areas
individuals with disabilities
Powerful clustering tools identifying adjoining areas that could be designed and built as a single integrated network
Unserved (less than 25 Mbps / 3 Mbps)
veteran status
does not include actual road segments
The Fiber Pre-Engineering Toolkit can be used in combination with the Fiber Strategy Toolkit (for a detailed analysis of existing fiber networks) and/or the National Hex Toolkit (for an analysis of all broadband networks: fiber
This software requires a relatively new fully-configured computer (RAM
and other data provided by multiple third parties (not-for-profit and commercial) and in some cases aggregated by the NTIA
and those interested in detailed fiber planning and analysis (depth of coverage
Some of the secondary data sets are available only for the 50 United States
The Broadband DATA Act in combination with the FCC's Broadband Data Collection (BDC) program results in a Fabric of locations and associated ISP coverage data that the FCC has associated with two geometries: traditional census blocks and the H3 hexagonal grid
