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Importance of Investing in Your Community #Summit26
“We are truly Americana,” says Italia Commisso, EVP, Programming & Human Resources of Mediacom. As a cable industry veteran prior to being a co-founder of Mediacom with her brother Rocco Commisso, Italia understands that the investment in infrastructure is even larger than connecting individuals and businesses to the Internet. That is, their capital investments are…
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Tom Olson – 1938 to 2019
Memorial ServiceSaturday, November 2nd, 3:30 PM Terzich & Wilson Funeral Home225 E. Rose, Sonora, CA(209) 532-3131 Graveside service Monday, November 4th, 2:00PMMission City Memorial Park420 N. Winchester Blvd.Santa Clara, CA 95050 It is with a heavy heart that I report that, according to informed sources, Tom Olson, the founder of Tomco and Olson Technologies among…
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The Software-Defined Home of the Future
KB Homes’ SVP Dan Bridleman discusses the smart home of tomorrow and the work they are doing to make the home the center of a smart ecosystem. Instead of traditional bespoke construction techniques, modularity and off-site construction of building blocks or subsystems is the trend for new construction and is seen in the KB Home…
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Fiber, 5G and Beyond
“They are actually going to be providing the access technology that enables a lot of this 5G network,” explains Teresa McGaughey, Sr. Director, Product Marketing for Calix. Speaking at the 2019 NTCA Business and Technology conference, McGaughey provides an overview of her talk on what she terms the alphabet soup of acronyms that encompass emerging…
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Differentiation Through 10G
10G isn’t so much about speed, but it is about improving multiple parameters, including latency, reliability, and security, explains CableLabs’ Chris Lammers. Speaking at the ACA Connects Summit, Lammers points out that 10G is really a collection of technologies to expand the flexibility of the networks to move from peaks of 1 gig to 10…
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From Broadband to Preserving Wilderness & Wetlands
One of the joys of reporting on the rural broadband industry is getting to know the people who are bringing the Internet to their neighbors. A common trait of these people is that they are so much more than their job and, often, their community contributions, whether as a volunteer firefighter, local school board member…
