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    • 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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    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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    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’...
    ISE Columnist Greg Whelan, Municipal Broadband
    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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    Public Private Partnerships (P3)/Municipal Broadband

    Incumbent Broadband Providers Versus Muni Broadband

    Sept. 1, 2018
    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...

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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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    In the digital economy, the availability of data is intricately linked to economic opportunities, government services, and healthcare outcomes, but gaps are forming between the data “haves' and the data “have-nots”.
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    FTTx/Optical Networks

    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 ...
    Making It to the Gigabit Winner’s Circle
    FTTx/Optical Networks

    Making It to the Gigabit Winner’s Circle

    Dec. 8, 2016
    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...
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    C&E/NetDev Ops/GIS/Open-Source Networks

    Gig-ing Out in Chattanooga

    June 1, 2016
    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 […]