March 21, 2023
Demand for high-speed connections has surged in recent years, driven by factors such as the proliferation of data-intensive applications and the growing popularity of cloud computing. This has led to the development of numerous technologies aimed at increasing network speed...
February 16, 2023
While Northern Virginia is often considered the center of the internet, it’s running out of power, and real estate is increasingly more expensive. Looking ahead for the long term, is “QLoop,” the name given to a hyperscale data center being developed just north of V...
January 9, 2023
It felt like 2022 was full of deal talk. Whether it was AT&T spinning off WarnerMedia, Lumen Technologies wrapping its ILEC divestiture and selling its EMEA business, or any of the seemingly endless number of private-equity backed telecom acquisitions, the year was positively...
Working the Fiber Technician Workforce Crunch
December 5, 2022
The telecommunications industry realizes it has a workforce shortage and needs to accelerate workforce development. The Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) and the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) have formally announced an in...
How fast will the cable industry move to all-fiber plant? A Credit Suisse financial analyst believes the industry will be slow to upgrade from coax in less competitive areas, not seeing any urgency in upgrading to faster, more reliable technology, with speed and type of upgrades paced by the comp...
EPB Goes 25G PON
October 20, 2022
Chattanooga, Tennessee, municipal electric utility EBP built the nation’s first community-wide gigabit network in 2010, providing residents and businesses with symmetrical high-speed service over a 100% fiber network. Now EPB is kicking things up another notch ...
As more fiber rollouts are announced across the U.S., the broadband industry is facing a looming problem: finding enough workers to actually deploy the tens of millions of new passings they’ve promised. Government statistics show the number of telecommunications workers has dropped drastically o...
Service provider rapidly upgrades broadband speeds in Australia
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – (August 10, 2020)— Adtran®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), the leading provider of next-generation multi-gigabit fiber access and fiber extension solutions, today announced that TPG Telecom Group (TPG) is leveraging t...
July 6, 2022
With billions of dollars both public and private on the table, new fiber players are springing up left and right. Some are small, rural telcos who have decided to make the technology leap from DSL. Others are entirely new entrants targeting strategic pockets of certain states, as Wir...
May 10, 2022
There’s no question XGS-PON has center stage for now, but a debate is raging in the telecom industry about what’s next for PON beyond 10-gig technology. Most are of the opinion that either 25-gig or 50-gig will win out, but Adtran has a different idea: wavelength overlays.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – April 19, 2022 – Horizon, an Ohio-based fiber-optic broadband company, announces today that it is continuing to expand its regional state-of-the-art fiber-optic network to residents and businesses in Athens, Ohio. This Horizon Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) expansion includes nearly 35...
June 21, 2021—The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to advance the proposed ban on several Chinese telecom companies.
The ban would prevent the companies from having their equipment deployed in US telecom networks. It applies to all future operations, as well as revo...