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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…
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Gigabit to Businesses Big and Small
Melanie Murphy of AT&T talks about their relatively rapid rollout of a gigabit fiber network into Cupertino, the hometown of Apple. This Silicon Valley burg has a variety of businesses and Murphy talks about how the city of Cupertino realized the needs of the businesses and was instrumental in a relatively rapid rollout of gigabit…
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Fiber as a Fundamental Ingredient of the Modern World
The question that entities with older fiber have to ask, is will it support the higher bit rates that are increasingly demanded? Speaking at the SmartGig Bay Area conference, the Fiber Optic Association’s president, Jim Hayes, made a strong argument for testing and characterizing fiber cable to understand its performance at higher bit rates. As…
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The Energized and Lit City
Distributed energy production via renewables is what Deborah Acosta describes as the InDERnet and it will cause a huge disruption to the electrical distribution industry. Speaking at the Smart Gigabit Bay Area conference, Acosta, the Chief Innovation Officer for the City of San Leandro explains that the power of distributed energy is more than just renewable…
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Faster Fiber Deployment
Twenty to thirty percent decrease in construction management costs is what Dave Fridley suggests his clients are saving through process improvements implemented the past couple of years (see this interview for further information). Fridley, who is a partner at FARR Technologies, talks about how they have worked with clients and the RUS to streamline the…
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Noticeably Better
This video tells the story of how one rural independent operator reviewed their strategic assets and created a data center and fiber to the building offering that increased its available market opportunity by 40x. Viodi originally produced the base video for one of ITS’s vendors. Subsequently, ITS Fiber commissioned Viodi to shoot additional b-roll and…
