Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 12/3/2020
The World Economic Forum recently named 36 cities to its G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance, or what it describes as "a global effort to advance the responsible and ethical use of smart city technologies."
Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 10/23/2020
Also in this roundup: USDA ReConnect Program commits over $560 million in second round broadband grants; Verizon, AT&T celebrate broadband subs; Virgin Media, Google bundle up.
Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 10/2/2020
Also in this roundup: Cable One's stake in MBI; high valuations for rural broadband; Starlink plays recovery role; Belgium gets more fiber.
Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 8/18/2020
The global "smart mobility" market - encompassing transportation apps, smart parking solutions and the infrastructure that supports them - is estimated to reach $70.46 billion by 2027, growing between now and then at a CAGR of 20.2%.
Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 8/6/2020
This week Virgin Media connected nearly a million additional homes in Leeds, Bradford and Glasgow to its Gig1 network, allowing the ISP to claim 3.6 million premises passed and therefore making it the "largest gigabit broadband network" in the UK, surpassing BT's Openreach.
Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 7/21/2020
Dublin, Ohio, is home to a new Smart Parking project, courtesy of technology from Fujitsu and as part of the city's burgeoning Connected Dublin initiative.
Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading, 7/1/2020
The pandemic has been a wake-up call to broadband's overall importance in the US economy. While some big telcos are waiving data caps and other penalties to make it easier for consumers to stay connected, those companies are not necessarily speeding up their efforts to connect underserved and rural communities.
Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading, 6/25/2020
Virgin Media said it has fixed an hours-long broadband network outage in London and surrounding areas affecting several thousand customers and keeping many of them from work all day. And that wasn't even the only outage affecting Virgin's UK network today.
Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 5/8/2020
Also in today's roundup: OpenVault reports COVID-19 Internet usage numbers; US House Democrats propose $86 billion broadband bill; ExteNet, Nokia help Cal.net reach rural Californians; and Google bails on Toronto smart city project.
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Today’s access network architecture is under mounting pressure due to a continued surge in the number of connected devices, a proliferation of bandwidth-intensive customer applications and dramatic shifts in usage patterns related to the pandemic, such as work-from-home and e-learning.
Learn why now is the right time for cable operators to build greenfield networks or expand their existing networks with 10G PON, arming customers with high-speed symmetrical broadband. Gain a clear understanding of the drivers impacting the access network and the various approaches being considered to deliver higher speed services. Plus, find out the best practices that operators are employing as they leverage the latest in passive optical technology to future-proof their networks.
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- Node + 0 (Fiber Deep)
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- FTTP and 10G PON
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- Provisioning 10G PON within a DOCSIS B/OSS environment
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