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The Scoop on Rural Broadband
How much bandwidth do rural broadband customers need? That is the $4.5B question. Geoff Burke, senior director of corporate marketing for Calix, explains how much bandwidth rural customers are using, based on recent data measurements (January through March 2012) from end-points distributed throughout rural America. Burke explains that one difference between this report and their…
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3M Connectivity Points in 18 Months in Ohio
Connecting the rest of Ohio with broadband is the goal of Agile Networks. In this interview at the TIA 2012, Agile Networks’ CTO Kyle Quillen explains how they will be using a hybrid network of fiber and wireless to bring broadband to both the unserved and served areas of Ohio. The roots of this project…
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A Different Way of Thinking
One of the comments made by independent operators at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit is that it was refreshing to hear different points of view. This point is touched upon in this interview with Hilda Legg, who was Co-Chair of the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit. Legg also talks about the formation of various entities to…
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Igniting Broadband
A partnership to drive broadband adoption is how Sue Spradley described the purpose of U.S. Ignite. With the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Science Foundation, and the GENI Program Office as its catalyst, US Ignite is forming public and private partnerships to fulfill its mission. For instance, one of their…
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Broadband Perseverance Part 1
Joey Durel, Lafayette, LA City/Parish President, provides an update on their Fiber to the Home project in this video interview filmed at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit. He sheds light on some of the applications that have grown out of having 1 Gigabit connections to schools and businesses, as we well as the 100 Mb/s…
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Ways to Bring Broadband to Rural America
How do you continue to bring broadband and fiber to rural America post-stimulus? James Salter of AEG suggests three things that policy makers should consider as they look at the best way to continue extending fiber and broadband to rural areas. He points out that this isn’t a simple issue, but believes it is just…
