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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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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…
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A Future Enabled by Fiber – #FiberConnect2023
Video Highlights Fiber is the Future “If you think about the future of education, and the metaverse, quantum networking, all this future is enabled by fiber,” states Gary Bolton, President and CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association. Speaking at Fiber Connect 2023, Bolton points out that this is a special moment as various groups unite…
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The Invisible Factory Enabled by the PRTC FTTH Network – #SRCLIVE
Description: The focus of FOCUS is economic development in the five-county area that PRTC (The People’s Fiber Network) also serves with a state-of-the-art, all-fiber optic network. Thanks to that network, PRTC is recognized as an NTCA Smart Rural Community. This southeastern Kentucky-based non-profit and cooperative communications provider, respectively, “Envision Rural”, as FOCUS’ tagline indicates. That…
