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CPO Market Data Center Project

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... Read More

Hyperscale Data Center Project Pulling Huge Fiber Under Potomac River

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... Read More

A Recession Won’t Stop Telecom M&A in 2023

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... Read More

Working the Fiber Technician Workforce Crunch

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... Read More

Cable’s Slow Ride to Fiber

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... Read More

EPB Goes 25G PON

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 ... Read More

Can Plug-and-Play Fiber Tech Bridge the Broadband Labor Shortage?

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... Read More

TPG Reaches New Speeds with Adtran Gfast Fiber Extension Portfolio

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... Read More

The Big Fiber Rollup is Coming – The Question is When

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... Read More

Adtran Thinks Wavelength Overlay – Not 25G – Will Be PON’s Next Step Forward

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. Ryan McCow... Read More

Horizon Expands Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) into Athens, Ohio

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... Read More

FCC on Chinese Telecom Ban, NTIA Map ‘Limited,’ New Proposal to Close the Digital Divide

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... Read More
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