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Bootstrapping an All Fiber Network – Part 1
“You can’t conduct your life with dial-up; this [broadband] isn’t a luxury question,” said Dr. Tim Nulty of ecFiber.net. In part one of this two-part interview, he explains how one community is bootstrapping the creation of an all fiber network in a very rural part of Vermont. His comments, made in April 2012, were prescient…
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Fiber Through the Decades
What happens after the budget for a broadband fiber optic last mile network is shaved because of lack of access to capital? Instead of giving up the project, Millennium Communications Group CEO Ron Cassel explains that they found creative ways to achieve the goals of an upstart, community-based fiber network, ecFiber.net, when that entity lost its planned funding…
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Fiber Design for the New Millennium
The high-level concepts for how to deploy Fiber to the Home have been around for decades. It is the process and incremental improvements in technology that has expanded the use of fiber from specialized to mass application. We caught up with Ron Cassel of Matrix Design Group who talks about a rural Vermont fiber project…
