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Common Sense Communications About Communications
“The connection to the community and rural areas is kind of what’s always been important to me,” states Jimmy Todd, CEO/General Manager of Nex-Tech in Lenora, Kansas. Todd, who is also the incoming chair of the Fiber Broadband Association reflects on a fiber journey that began for his cooperative in 1996. In the above interview,…
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All Points Lead to Fiber Broadband
All Points Broadband could be a metaphor for the unserved locations that are the focus of the company with that name. With a goal of connecting over 80,000 unserved rural locations by the end of 2025, All Points is bringing Fiber to the Home (FTTH) to parts of rural Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia that…
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Painting the Town Fiber – #FiberConnect2023
Fiber on Demand Fiber on demand is the benefit of TRAXyL’s solution for installing fiber on roads, runways, and bridges, states Blaine Riney. Riney, TRAXyL’s Business Development Manager, describes their technique as painting fiber on a surface. Installing up to 1,000 feet per hour with up to 72 fibers (3 each 24 fiber cables) allows…
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A Future Enabled by Fiber – #FiberConnect2023
Video Highlights Fiber is the Future “If you think about the future of education, and the metaverse, quantum networking, all this future is enabled by fiber,” states Gary Bolton, President and CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association. Speaking at Fiber Connect 2023, Bolton points out that this is a special moment as various groups unite…
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A Complete Rural Fiber Solution
The Corning/NTCA announcement at the latter’s RTIME 2023 was more than a supply deal that includes more than 46 million feet of fiber optic cable. It was about supplying the right kind of products to help make fiber installations cost-effective for the unique requirements of rural America. In the above interview, Corning VP of Emerging…