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Unlocking Career Growth: The Power of Association
“You get a chance to bounce ideas off of people you don’t necessarily have within your company,” says Jennifer Vassil, the Fiber Broadband Association’s Vice President of Membership. Vassil is speaking about the many opportunities for FBA members to contribute to the association’s work in furthering its fiber deployment and usage goals. With over 625…
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The Architect of the Network, The Narrator of Technological Reckoning
The blurring of humans and machines, the use of technology to improve the human condition, and the dependency of humanity on their inventions are some of the themes of Thomas J.J. Starr’s books. Many might recognize Starr’s name from his leadership in helping to facilitate the spread of one of those inventions: broadband. As he…
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The CO in the Cloud – A Worldwide Demonstration
The above video interview with the current Vice President of Business Development and Marketing and soon-to-be CEO of the Broadband Forum, Craig Thomas, provides an overview of the 2023 CloudCO (Central Office) demonstration and its importance to service operators, vendors, and, ultimately, consumers. The CloudCO approach disaggregates and virtualizes network functions, allowing service providers to…
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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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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…
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Broadband Drives Housing Occupancy
From about 50% to greater than 90% occupancy is the impact that broadband as an amenity has had on the Stoneridge Apartments. In the above video, Brittany Hustad, Project Manager Corporate Services for Dominium, explains that earlier efforts at rehabilitating various Stoneridge amenities failed to drive occupancy rates. It was the inclusion of broadband as…
