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.
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...
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’...
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 ...
Why the Fight? Today, municipal broadband networks are merely a nuisance to the big US Incumbent broadband providers. A small rural community here, a small city there. Noise in...
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...
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...
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 ...
Community Case Studies: Sebewaing, Michigan, and Sandy, Oregon by: Craig Settles (This article originally ran in the September 2015 issue of OSP Magazine) Cities in need of faster...
Electric Power Board Enrolls the Help of a Little Light Chattanooga, Tennessee, has long been known as a city of pioneers, both in history and in technology. With a rich […]