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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 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…
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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…
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Gigabit to Businesses Big and Small
Melanie Murphy of AT&T talks about their relatively rapid rollout of a gigabit fiber network into Cupertino, the hometown of Apple. This Silicon Valley burg has a variety of businesses and Murphy talks about how the city of Cupertino realized the needs of the businesses and was instrumental in a relatively rapid rollout of gigabit…