tensorust/erate-manufacturer-share-sample

E-Rate Equipment Manufacturer Share: free sample (Tensorust LLC)

Who wins the $1.5B a year of E-Rate school network equipment, by manufacturer, state and category, funding years 2022 to 2026.

Headline: E-Rate Category 2 pays for about $1.5B a year of school and library Wi-Fi, switching, firewalls and cabling, but USAC publishes it as line items with free-text manufacturer names, so no maker has a clean share of the market.

This repository is a free teaser, not the dataset. It holds 25 example rows and a summary table with no names in it. The full file has 17,230 rows and is sold by Tensorust LLC: https://tensorust.com/datasets/erate-manufacturer-share/.

Files here

file	what it is
sample.csv	25 rows of the full file (the same sample shown on tensorust.com)
summary_by_state.csv	row counts and totals by state across the full file, no entity names (groups with fewer than 3 rows are folded into "Other")

Summary by state (largest groups)

State	rows	Committed (USD)
IL	574	258,908,291
CA	538	940,347,816
TX	536	893,118,346
OH	515	212,001,898
NY	509	453,857,599
PA	507	252,056,432
FL	486	395,955,590
NJ	482	209,996,750
OK	469	105,439,635
MI	465	213,938,356
AZ	449	174,555,831
MN	440	127,251,443
TOTAL	17,230	7,247,969,659

Full table: summary_by_state.csv.

What the full file has

• 17,230 rows
• Key fields: company, ticker, funding_year, state, category, requested_usd, committed_usd, funded_status_usd, denied_usd, cancelled_usd
• Parquet and CSV, a README with sources, method and limits, and the build script
• Free 25-row sample (no personal contact data)

Coverage: Funding years 2022 to 2026, every Category 2 line item that names a manufacturer, 55 states and territories, 78 manufacturers. USAC data as pulled for the Tensorust E-Rate Network Equipment Tracker; built Nov 6 2026.

Columns in the full file

column	meaning
company	Manufacturer (normalized) and public ticker or private
ticker	Manufacturer (normalized) and public ticker or private
funding_year	E-Rate funding year, applicant state, equipment category
state	E-Rate funding year, applicant state, equipment category
category	E-Rate funding year, applicant state, equipment category
requested_usd	Pre-discount eligible cost requested on FCC Form 471
committed_usd	Committed amount
funded_status_usd	Requested dollars by FRN status
denied_usd	Requested dollars by FRN status
cancelled_usd	Requested dollars by FRN status
line_items	Line items, distinct applicants (count only), one-time units
applicants	Line items, distinct applicants (count only), one-time units
units	Line items, distinct applicants (count only), one-time units
avg_discount	Average E-Rate discount
share_of_national_year	Share of requested dollars
share_of_state_year	Share of requested dollars
company_yoy_change	Manufacturer national requested-dollar change vs prior year

Get the full file

tier	price	includes
State or category slice	$750	Every manufacturer's dollars and share in up to 5 states or one equipment category, funding years 2022 to 2026.
National 5-year file	$3,500	All 17,230 rows, 78 manufacturers, national and state shares and year-over-year change, CSV and Parquet.
Yearly market tracker	$9,000 a year	The file refreshed as each funding year's Form 471s and commitments post, with share shifts by state and category. Up to 5 users.

Email mattbusel@tensorust.com with the tier and a billing contact, and we will send a proper invoice (ACH or card). The file is delivered once the invoice is paid. Details and the live sample: https://tensorust.com/datasets/erate-manufacturer-share/. All datasets: https://tensorust.com/datasets/

Method and limits

Normalize manufacturer names and map them to tickers (Cisco includes Meraki; HPE includes Aruba and Juniper; Extreme; Fortinet; Ubiquiti; CommScope/Ruckus; and others). Line items without a recognizable maker stay as Unattributed (OTHER). Aggregate line items to manufacturer x year x state x category and compute shares and year-over-year change.

Not a lead list: no school, library or district names, and never sold as E-Rate vendor leads. Not revenue: pre-discount request dollars, before denials and cancellations. Not Category 1 internet access.

Sources

• USAC Open Data, E-Rate FRN line items (hbj5-2bpj), current form versions: https://opendata.usac.org/resource/hbj5-2bpj.json
• USAC Open Data, E-Rate FRN status (qdmp-ygft): https://opendata.usac.org/resource/qdmp-ygft.json

License

The sample and summary here are free to view, analyze and cite with attribution to "Tensorust LLC, https://tensorust.com/datasets/erate-manufacturer-share/". The full dataset is licensed separately per tier. No resale or redistribution of Tensorust data without a written license.

Tensorust LLC, Tuckahoe NY. mattbusel@tensorust.com | https://tensorust.com