i3 Broadband wins coveted recognition in Rockford, Illinois
News Local provider i3 Broadband is reminding the industry that small-town sentiment is just as...
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What were fiber’s 2025 gains? Will we see 2026 acceleration?
Viewpoints There are 84.6 million unique addresses that have fiber but there’s still plenty of...
Read MoreGoogle’s Kansas City Gbps Fiber Installation Kicks Off
Kansas City, KS – Google announced that, after months of building its new fiber infrastructure as part of its Kansas City fiber initiative, it is now starting to connect homes. The company has informed Kansas City residents that...
Read MoreDanville Mutual Chooses Calix Unified Access Portfolio for Fiber Buildout
DES MOINES, IA – Danville Mutual Telephone Company, a small cooperative telco in Iowa, has selected the Calix Unified Access portfolio for its active Ethernet FTTH buildout. For more than a decade, Calix has been serving...
Read MoreMcDowell County, WV, Gets FTTH Upgrade From Shentel
EDINBURG, VA – Beginning this fall, Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel), a leading provider of telecommunications services to parts of West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland, will be bringing its FTTH technology...
Read MoreOhio Cooperative Switches to ADTRAN for Rural FTTH Network
HUNTSVILLE, AL – Arthur Mutual Telephone Company (“Arthur”), a cooperative telephone company serving rural northwest Ohio, has selected ADTRAN, a global provider of networking and communications equipment, to power its...
Read MoreLumbee River EMC Awards Fiber Contract to Allied Telesis
LAS VEGAS, NV – Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation (LREMC) has selected Allied Telesis, a global provider of secure IP/Ethernet switching solutions and deployer of IP triple-play networks, as the vendor of choice to...
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Calix Residential Gateway Extends Access Network into the Home
LAS VEGAS – With the addition of the 836GE Residential Services Gateway (RSG) to Calix’s...
Read MoreNeoPhotonics Announces Embedded OTDR for PON Transceivers
SAN JOSE, CA – NeoPhotonics Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuits, modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-speed communications networks, announced an optical line terminal...
Read MoreQnbn Partners with Ericsson to Bring Fiber to Qatar
QATAR – Qatar National Broadband Network Company (Qnbn) and Ericsson announced an agreement to empower Qatar with high-speed broadband fiber access to citizens and businesses alike. The rollout of competitive, high-speed...
Read MoreWith Boost From FiOS, Verizon 3Q Results Cement Growth Trend
NEW YORK – Verizon Communications Inc. followed up its strong 2Q results with a third consecutive quarter of double-digit percentage growth in year-over-year earnings, as Verizon Wireless generated a second consecutive...
Read MoreAlcatel-Lucent Introduces Embedded Monitoring Solution for GPON
AMSTERDAM – Alcatel-Lucent has introduced a network monitoring solution designed to save service providers time and cost in maintaining fiber broadband access networks by using optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR), a...
Read MoreZTE Unveils Next-Gen PON Prototype
AMSTERDAM – Network equipment provider ZTE Corporation unveiled a time- and wavelength-division multiplexing passive optical network (TWDM-PON) prototype along with a solution for building pay-as-you-grow, flexibly...
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Fiber Broadband Gains Global Momentum in 2012
AMSTERDAM – According to the latest figures published by the Broadband Forum and prepared by...
Read MoreHyperoptic Delivers Hyper-Fast Broadband to Property Sector
LONDON – FTTH services provider Hyperoptic announced that it is working with building owners and management companies to install fiber broadband directly into property developments. This strategy is enabling broadband...
Read MoreKNÖV-NetT Selects PBN for FTTH Network in Germany
ALMERE, THE NETHERLANDS – KNÖV-NetT, a municipal broadband utility, has selected PBN’s AOCM6000 product family, including its HFC-overlay solution, for the future deployment of its high-end FTTH network in and around...
Read MoreUK Housing Development to Deploy Calix Gear for FTTH
DERWENTHORPE, YORKSHIRE, UK – A visionary, award-winning housing development under construction in Yorkshire will deploy gigabit fiber broadband to more than 540 homes using the Calix E7-2 modular Ethernet Service Access...
Read MoreFTTP to Reach 13.2% of Total Fixed Broadband by End of 2012
SINGAPORE – The fixed broadband market continues to grow worldwide and will increase 7.3 percent this year to reach 618.7 million subscribers at the end of 2012 – more than one-third of the world’s total...
Read MoreNext Generation of FTTH on Hold Due to Mobile Broadband Rollout
CAMPBELL, CA — The transition to the next generation of fiber-to-the-home technologies is being slowed by the rollout of mobile broadband, according to a new study by market research firm Infonetics Research. “It’s become...
Read MoreOKI Research Makes FTTH Systems More Efficient and Less Power Hungry
TOKYO – OKI announced that it has developed a new bandwidth allocation control technology to enable OLT drive control for optical access systems. The technology controls the number of OLT drive units in response to traffic...
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