WHY SHOULD FEDERAL FUNDS BE ALLOCATED TO EXTEND BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE INTO RURAL AREAS?
“Why should federal funds be allocated to extend broadband infrastructure into rural areas where it doesn’t make any business sense?” I...
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TIME, COST, AND QUALITY: LESSONS LEARNED IN BROADBAND ENGINEERING
I stumbled into broadband engineering after a few retail and entertainment industry jobs didn’t work out. My college degree is in audio...
THE BROADBAND SOLUTION – MUNICIPAL NETWORKS
I recently attended the Georgia Municipal Association 2021 Summit in Savannah. I was surprised to discover that I was one of the very few...
BROADBAND FUNDING IS BECOMING MORE AVAILABLE, NOW WHAT?
The “Unbundling” of the Network Owner, Network Operator, and Service Providers We predict you will see more and more community broadband...
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT: NORTHLINE – LEANDER’S NEW DOWNTOWN DISTRICT
Northline is Leander, Texas’ new 115-acre downtown district – a unique destination where contemporary design meets the character and...
WHY “SMART” CITIES NEED BROADBAND MASTER PLANS
The term “smart city” typically refers to any community that utilizes broadband to access technologies that optimize operational...
BROADBAND: JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
There’s nothing like a global pandemic to connect our needs for both healthcare provider access and broadband. The use of telehealth...
CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN EDUCATION
There’s no question that a digital divide exists in the United States and around the world between those with broadband access and those...
DEVELOPING MACHINE-BASED LIDAR EXTRACTION TO BRIDGE DIGITAL DIVIDE
The FCC is sponsoring a new program in 2020 called the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) aimed at bringing broadband to underserved...
WHY YOU MAY NOT BE GETTING THE GIGABIT SERVICE YOU’RE PAYING FOR
Over the past five years or so, our industry has expended a great deal of marketing capital on promoting Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH),...
OPEN ACCESS NETWORKS: A NEW WAY FORWARD IN BROADBAND
If you work in the OSP industry, you know that the broadband world has been flipped upside down over the past few years and has come into...
HOW RFID IMPROVES EFFICIENCY DURING CONSTRUCTION
In our previous blog, we discussed the high-level benefits of employing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solution in a make ready...
WHY WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY WON’T REPLACE A WIRED NETWORK
As a network designer and advocate for the deployment of ubiquitous high-speed broadband networks, I am often asked, “Why would someone...
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SMART CITY?
There is a lot of buzz about “smart cities” these days, with cities such as Portland, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, Columbus and Kansas...
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OPEN ACCESS NETWORKS
The telecommunications engineering industry is rife with acronyms and jargon, and it can be hard to sort out the truly important terms...
PRE-PROJECT DATA COLLECTION FOR FIBER NETWORK PLANNING: A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
Just as cakes don’t bake themselves, fiber networks don’t build themselves. Fiber network planning and baking cakes both need the right...
WHAT IS FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY?
Google Fiber recently announced in the news that they will be bringing their gigabit Internet service to Huntsville, Alabama. This will...
HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR NEXT PROJECT MANAGER
While you’re busy pushing tasks their way and asking for status updates, your entry level employees are slowly working toward becoming...
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