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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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Beyond the Fiber Halo – #fiberconnect2023
Summary A recent study, led by RVA, LLC and sponsored by the Fiber Broadband Association, found that consumers have a very positive perception of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). In the study of 4,000 randomly selected, U.S. online customers, 63% of respondents said that fiber is the best type of internet available, and 33% said they would be…
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The Open ODN – Upgrade Without Downtime #fiberconnect2023
A customer support issue from decades ago remains fresh in Bernd Hesse’s mind. He saw first-hand at Raynet that it was not possible to implement a physical upgrade to the optical last-mile network without significant service disruption. In the above interview, filmed at FBA’s Fiber Connect 2023, he contends that this issue remains. Like his…
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Fiber’s Sustainable Advantage – #Fiberconnect2023
Sustainability – whether economic or environmental – is center stage as it relates to broadband deployments, particularly those that receive federal monies. The challenge is to balance the drive to bridge the digital divide while managing the accompanying energy consumption that this entails. At Fiber Connect 2023, OMDIA’s Julie Kunstler led a track on sustainability.…
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Broadband as a Lifestyle Service – #FiberConnect2023
Workforce training is a subject of immense importance in the nationwide buildout of fiber-to-the-home networks as evidenced by its prominence as a topic at the recent Fiber Connect 2023 conference. In the above interview, Craig Thomas, VP of Business Development, and Strategic Marketing for the Broadband Forum, emphasizes the breadth and depth of opportunities available…
