-
XGS PON & More at the Broadband Forum’s BASe Event at Fiber Connect 22
“GPON may be good enough, but you really have to think about 2026,” recommends Teresa McGaughey, AVP, Access and Field Marketing for Calix. Speaking at the end of the Broadband Forum’s BASe Event at Fiber Connect 22, McGaughey indicates that the steady growth in bandwidth will cause peak usage demand challenges for GPON around that…
-
Doing It Her Way – A Conversation with the Chairman of the Board, Patty Boyers
Whether it is at the Independent Show or the ACA Connects Summit, a highlight of these conferences is catching up with Boycom president and ACA Connects Chairman, Patty Boyers. In the above interview, filmed at TIS22, Boyers explains why she chose the moniker, Chairman. It has been a particularly busy time for Boyers as she…
-
Be the Local Broadband Professor – #TIS2022 Recap with ACA Connects’ Grant Spellmeyer
Be the local broadband professor summarizes the advice given by Rhod Shaw, Principal & Chairman of the Alpine Group, at the State and Federal update session at the 2022 Independent Show (TIS). Moderated by ACA Connects President and CEO, Grant Spellmeyer, with Shaw and Tom Cohen, Partner at Kelley Drye, serving as panelists, this panel…
-
Navigating Rural Broadband Funding in a Sea of Uncertainty – #TIS22
“We actually saw a pretty sizable, almost 30% increase in prices for all of our equipment,” says Ross Petrick, GM & CEO of Garretson, South Dakota-based, Alliance Communications. Speaking at the 2022 Independent Show, Petrick explains some of the financial challenges of expanding broadband to unserved households in rural South Dakota. At almost $7,700 per…
-
A Residential Gateway App Store & More
Containers – those packages of software that contain all of the necessary elements to run in any environment – are often associated with the rise of the cloud. In the above interview, filmed at Fiber Connect 2022, Craig Thomas discusses the Broadband Forum’s initiative to standardize software containerization on the residential gateway within the home.…
-
Independents Fiber & More at The Independent Show – #TIS22
The first statewide fiber network that brings together the fiber of independent local exchange carriers and electric cooperatives is how Rob Shema, CEO of CNI, describes Hoosier Net. Independents Fiber Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of CNI, is one of the members. Hoosier Net is modeled on Ohio-based Independents Fiber Network in that it will…
