For service providers, there are challenges and opportunities that go along with today’s increased deployment of FTTH network architectures. The realities of this are also creating new trends that may change how service providers engineer, design, and deploy the infrastructure across the OSP. Read about six trends to watch for in the near future.

At this year’s OSP EXPO, attendees soaked in a new Summit sponsored by ADC. Through interactive group discussion, participants had the unique opportunity to share, learn, and discuss ideas relative to specific challenges and strategies surrounding rural FTTP deployments and emerging network issues and technologies.

The ONT may be the last piece of the outside plant deployment, but it is the equipment which the customer is most familiar with, and is critical in ensuring the customer’s expectations are fully met. The good news is this: choosing the right ONT is as simple as A, B, C.

A new study from ABI Research forecasts that in 2011, some 20 million TVs offering wireless connectivity will be shipped worldwide.

It’s been said that the hardest part of a broadband network is The Last Mile to the customer premises. But with in-home networking becoming a norm for service providers, all bets are usually off when it comes to consistency in deploying that increasingly important home network.

Line Systems, Inc. was looking to add Ethernet business services to their portfolio. Their current network was a series of SONET rings located in the Philadelphia Tri-State area that extended through Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs and Southern New Jersey out to Atlantic City. Learn how Line Systems’ Director of Engineering, Anthony Abate, achieved his goals by leveraging the existing fiber infrastructure without a costly physical build.

Many work on the incorrect assumption that wireline and wireless networks are entirely separate. Little do they know that those snazzy Smartphones are extra super smart BECAUSE they connect to the PSTN via high bandwidth digital communication links. They also don't realize that those base stations and roof-top towers are detestable lightning suckers ready to sap the life out of providers' profits when a lightning strike zaps them. Is there a hero out there somewhere who can defeat this villain? There just might be.

In the same way that what look like plain old fireflies are actually comprised of more than 2,000 known species, employees are far more complex and unique than they might appear at first glance. Unearthing the hidden talents your employees possess is the first step toward using these areas of hidden development to your team's advantage. Here, learn 9 ways to ignite the fires of innovation in your company.

The secret to succeeding has little to do with an impressive degree (or pedigree) or with knowing the right people. In fact, it's not a secret at all but something society seems to have almost forgotten about: hard work.