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The Road to FTTH Success Begins With….
Even before the first fiber is pulled and equipment selected, the road to Fiber to the Home success begins with cost accounting. In the above interview, filmed at the 2015 Minnesota Telecom Alliance Annual Conference and Convention, Darrell Bolen, Director, Separations of FARR Technologies, points to the important interplay that needs to take place between…
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Updating Regulations & Laws to Facilitate Broadband Deployment
Updating regulations and laws are important steps governments can take to facilitate broadband rollout. At the 2015 Annual Meeting, and in the above interview, MTA President and CEO, Brent Christensen outlined three bills in the Minnesota legislature that the MTA is championing that would further these goals. Updating rules for costs of remediation for crossing railroad…
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ViodiTV at MTA on Channel 58 of the Hyatt
Attendees to the 2015 MTA who are staying at the Hyatt will have the chance to watch MTA conference highlights, as well as highlights from some of our travels. Use the comment form below to let us know what you would like to see. Register for the conference at https://mnta.site-ym.com/events/unable_to_register.asp?id=440536
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Wholesale CLEC & MVNO without Infrastructure Additions
Expanding outside an ILEC’s traditional service area without having to pay for upfront infrastructure is what Fritz Hendricks and Chris Brown of Onvoy discuss in the above interview, filmed at the 2014 Minnesota Telecom Alliance Convention. Hendricks describes a service that allows: An operator to offer unified communications’ services, through their own softswitch, outside their service…
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SOC It to Me – Building a Culture of Ethics, Accountability & Quality
SOC-2 (Service Organization Control) compliance is a must-have for certain clients of data centers, as pointed out in the above interview with Brian Steuve and Robert Koch of the accounting firm of Olson Thielen. As Steuve indicates, it is about building trust and putting controls in place that puts clients’ minds at ease. More than…