The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority system (OTA) currently operates eleven turnpikes totaling 624.4 miles. The Gilcrease Turnpike, a 5.7-mile corridor, is currently under construction and scheduled to open in 2022. There are 97 active toll collection locations with three to be added next year. In 2015, the OTA announced "Driving Forward: Investing in Oklahoma's Future", a $1.19 billion program that included reconstruction of two major interchanges on the Muskogee and H.E. Bailey Turnpikes, twenty-two miles of widening from four lanes to six lanes on the Turner Turnpike, widening and rehabilitation of the John Kilpatrick Turnpike bridges over the North Canadian River, an extension of the John Kilpatrick Turnpike from I-40 to SH152/Airport Road, and the construction of the Kickapoo Turnpike.. The OTA Information Technology (IT) Division began assessing the existing fiber network and the capacity to provide high-speed connectivity to the new toll collection locations as well as filling fiber backbone gaps on existing turnpikes. Faced with the fiscal responsibility of constructing 68.3 miles of new fiber backbone within a three year window the OTA determined it could not financially manage that effort and began looking for alternatives.