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Fiber Network Powering Broadband & Now Video
The juxtaposition of a fiber optic cable on a dirt road paints the picture of many parts of rural America and glimpses of the stark contrast in infrastructures can be seen in the above video. With 1,300 miles of recently deployed fiber and an average of 2.5 customers per mile, United Electric Cooperative is providing broadband…
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Driving Demand for Broadband
You have got it; Fiber to the Home that is, now what do you do with it? In this video interview, recorded at the MTA 2011 Annual Convention, Bernadine Joselyn of the Blandin Foundation and Kevin Beyer, who wears two hats as General Manager of Federated Telephone Cooperative and Farmers Mutual Telephone Company in West…
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Broadband to the Unserved
The relentless banging noise of a Step by Step switch in a small, rural central office pounds away in my head some 13 years later. The irony that I was in this central office to terminate an advanced state-of-the-art, video fiber network was not lost on me. This central office was a reflection of the overall…
