Cedar Falls isn’t new to the broadband game. Rob, an avid mountain biker and both CTO and Director of Communications Services at Cedar Falls Utilities, has been captaining the nationally leading broadband infrastructure in Cedar Falls for over seven years, notching a presidential visit in 2015, named fastest ISP in the nation by PCMag in 2020, Best Gaming ISP in the Nation in 2021, as well as being the first gigabit and then 10gig community in Iowa and one of the first for both in the U.S.

And Ben, the VP of Instructure & Security for Vinli and also certified drone pilot as the founder of ROTOR VISUAL, has been a regular superuser of that infrastructure for over a decade.

We jump in to talk about what all of that means, why it matters for entrepreneurship and tech development and go into (probably too much) detail on the future of network technology and edge computing (let’s talk Kubernetes).