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Opportunities Abound for Gfast and Fixed Wireless Technologies

SYDNEY — The new Connecting Everyone report from French research company IDATE has revealed the real-world challenges in building universal fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) coverage, leaving a massive opportunity ...

OFS's Avon, Connecticut Facility is Now AS9100D Certified

AVON, CT — OFS, a designer, manufacturer and supplier of fiber optic products, has achieved certification of its Avon, CT facility to AS9100D. AS9100 is the internationally recognized quality management ...

Helsinki Seeks a Million Virtual Visitors in 2019

HELSINSKI, FINLAND — Virtual Helsinki is a digital twin of the city of Helsinki that has been created by means of 3D modelling. The aim is to profile Helsinki as a center of VR/AR expertise, as well ...

More IP Traffic Predicted in the Next 5 Years than in Entire Internet History

SAN JOSE, CA — The new Visual Networking Index (VNI) by Cisco predicts that by 2022, more IP traffic will cross global networks than in all prior "internet years" combined up to the end of 2016. In other ...

Congruex Acquires White Construction for Expanded Broadband Construction Capabilities

BOULDER, CO — Congruex, a national end-to-end provider of design, engineering, construction management and maintenance services to broadband service providers, announced the acquisition of White Construction ...

OTELCO Partners with VETRO FiberMap for Fiber Broadband Availability Tool

NEW GLOUCESTER, ME — OTELCO announced a new collaboration with VETRO FiberMap, a Portland, Maine-based GIS and broadband mapping software company, to offer customers a quick solution for determining ...

FCC Green Lights Four Broadband Satellite Proposals

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission approved the requests of four companies — Space Exploration Holdings (SpaceX), Kepler Communications (Kepler), Telesat Canada (Telesat), and LeoSat ...

FTTH Council Europe Warns Against Fake Fiber Marketing

BRUSSELS — The European Parliament gathered in plenary session in Strasbourg approved the new European Electronic Communications Code, which will soon become the new legislative framework for telecommunications. ...

Global Optical Fiber Market to Reach $8.1 Billion by 2025

PORTLAND, OR — Widespread adoption of 5G, increase in implementation of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connectivity, and advent of internet of things (IoT) are expected to propel the growth of the global optical ...

Calix Deepens Smart Home Visibility with New Cloud Release

SAN JOSE, CA — Calix announced new features for the Calix Cloud that will enable communications service providers (CSPs) to generate new revenue streams and enhance the subscriber experience. This release ...

CenturyLink Launches SIMPLE for Small Business

MONROE, LA — To simplify and streamline the purchase of business services for small business customers, CenturyLink (CTL) has launched CenturyLink SIMPLE for Business. The first offering available through ...

About 580,000 Added Broadband in 3Q 2018

DURHAM, NH — Leichtman Research Group (LRG) found that the largest cable and telephone providers in the U.S. representing about 95 percent of the market – acquired about 580,000 net additional broadband ...

Multichannel Sectors Lost 1.2M Video Subscribers in Q3 2018

MONTEREY, CA — Third-quarter results for U.S. multichannel video subscriptions cut short a brief wave of optimism for the sector, according to Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market ...

IDATE DigiWorld Predicts More than 1 Billion FTTH/B Connected Households by 2022

MONTPELLIER, FRANCE — Currently the FTTx market is mainly lead by FTTH, FTTB and VDSL technologies. According to the latest IDATE DigiWorld FTTx report, along the period 2017-2022 it is expected an average ...

AFL Launches Mini DIN Rail Mounted Enclosure

SPARTANBURG, SC — AFL, an international manufacturer of fiber optic cable, equipment and accessories, is releasing the Mini DIN Rail Mounted Enclosure. This new enclosure’s compact design gives it ...

Network Convergence Opportunity Driving 10G PON Deployments

LICHFIELD, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND — The ability to have a converged architecture supporting multiple applications as well as reusing the existing passive ODN are the key drivers for implementation of ...

Ukraine Offers the World's Cheapest Broadband at $5.00 a Month

LICHFIELD, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND — Ukraine offers the world’s cheapest broadband, with an average cost of USD 5.00 per month. The West African nation of Mauritania is the most expensive, with an average ...

Network Convergence Opportunity Driving 10G PON Deployments

ROANOKE, VA — Broadbandtrends, an independent market analysis and consulting firm specializing in the entire broadband ecosystem, recently conducted a global service provider survey of broadband operators ...

Calix Launches the GigaSpire Smart Home System

LAS VEGAS — Calix, a provider of broadband communications access systems, launched the GigaSpire smart home system powered by EXOS with improved Wi-Fi performance and intelligent bandwidth optimization. ...

India and China More Optimistic about Digitization than Americans and Europeans

BERLIN — Europeans are generally less optimistic about digitization and future technologies than people in Asia, according to a study conducted by the opinion research institute Ipsos on behalf of the ...