Gigabit Deployments

The educational content of this category relates to gigabit deployments and their evolution for Telecom/Communications Service Providers' (CSPs) mobile and fixed networks.  Best practices and guidance are targeted for telecom providers, contractors and others aligned with the ICT industry.

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Gigabit Deployments

Empowering Contractors With Essential Field Tools and Strategies

May 2, 2024
Software and field strategies to enable contractors in the field from Deva Kumar of IQGeo.
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Network Transformation/Edge Compute/IoT/URLLC/Automation/M2M

100G to 800G

June 1, 2021
Building It So THEY Will Come — Switching speeds are changing, with serialized/deserialized (SERDES) speeds stepping quickly from 10G through 25G, 50G to 100G, and perhaps 200G...
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5G/6G & Fixed Wireless Access/Mobile Evolution

Do Rural Broadband Partnerships Work?

Oct. 12, 2020
An inside perspective on successful broadband ventures. Closing the digital divide and bringing broadband to rural America is a challenging task that has been emphasized by the...
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FTTx/Optical Networks

Electric Utilities and The Future of Open Broadband

May 15, 2019
From the Smallest CO-OP to the Largest Public Utility — There’s an emerging understanding that broadband is critical civil infrastructure mandatory for community survival. It’...

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FTTx/Optical Networks

Introducing ISE’s New Municipal Broadband Web Content

Jan. 29, 2019
What Is Municipal Broadband? Municipal Broadband is a term in common usage usually denoting a city government’s involvement in the local Last Mile network infrastructure. But ...
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C&E/NetDev Ops/GIS/Open-Source Networks

A Match Made in Cyberheaven?

March 1, 2018
Telemedicine and Community Broadband — Only 1% of Arkansas stroke victims used to receive a life-saving drug called alteplase (TPA), resulting in the state leading the US in stroke...
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Innovative Enough?

April 1, 2017
Google Fiber Reflections: Google Fiber learned what most readers of this publication already knew: the broadband access business is tough. It’s not an electrical engineering problem...
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5G/6G & Fixed Wireless Access/Mobile Evolution

More Than Technology Is Changing

Jan. 1, 2017
Updates on G.fast, FTTx, WTTR, DOCSIS 3.1, 4G, 5G, and MORE 2017 will be an extraordinary year for new technology in communications. Carriers will be able to double speeds in ...