What happened to those awarded ARRA funds? We went on a hunt and found one telecom cooperative that will use its $123.8M funding to deploy fiber to more than 21,000 homes in west Kentucky and northwest Tennessee. After reading this case study, we think you’ll agree it was a good use of the money.
After months of negotiating with the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, WK&T finally received approval to begin construction the first week of June, 2011. The company selected 2 exchanges in Kentucky and 1 in Tennessee to begin work. The total route miles are still being calculated, but we expect the final distance to be approximately 2,200 miles, replacing 3,100 miles of copper.
Curtis Ashton is the kind of OSP pro who lives and breathes his profession -- respecting the intensity of power quite literally. (You’ll understand what we mean when you read about his near brush with death as he dodged a lightning strike during a hike at 14,000 feet!) OSP gives a standing ovation to his kind of attitude in the field.
Wonder what the future holds in terms of consumers’ desires for their connected homes? Read this and be warned. Your network is going to experience more growing pains.
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its latest Ethernet and IP MPLS VPN Services report. It provides global and regional forecasts through 2015 for layer 2 and layer 3 IP MPLS VPN services, managed and unmanaged VPN services, wholesale Ethernet services, and retail Ethernet services.
Learn how the ITU Y.1564 standard helps define guidelines for measuring a Carrier Ethernet network’s jitter, latency, loss, and throughput. This standard can even help provide a history of the network, making troubleshooting easier for providers -- who undoubtedly will take any help they can get in today’s competitive world.
What DSL access technology enables 100 Mbps performance and beyond? Vectoring technology does! It can extend very high speed Internet access to deliver multiple high-definition television streams, distance learning, video conferencing, telemedicine, and more -- without incurring the high costs of installing complete FTTH networks.
Today, providers must find ways to destroy those pesky silos that have long existed. Once disparate departments including engineering, planning, construction, sales, marketing, and operations must, uh, work together? Read how technology can make this “work together” thing less painful.
The rise in 4G and LTE service has created tremendous demand for bandwidth. Read how CWDM is a cost-effective alternative to fiber placement and can be a vehicle to provide wavelength service to wireless providers at a cell site. And believe it or not, CWDM optics (SFPs or transponders) can provide 60 km reach or more.
If you're one of the many Americans today braving the job market, you've probably learned that your social media presence can make you or break you. Read on for advice on how to get hired (and avoid being fired!) using social media.
The problem with SMART thinking is that it has a tendency to limit instead of inspire. SMART goals can work against you. To avoid the pitfalls, make sure your goals are both SMART and WISE. Use these criteria to improve your goals and transform them into a more powerful approach.
Ever been in a situation where you hold none of the cards while the person you want to persuade holds all of them? Use the Underdog Edge to your advantage by learning and using these 5 characteristics of winning underdogs.
If you miss the opportunities to reach and influence your target audiences, Time and Money are wasted. Productivity suffers. It's probably time for an Extreme Messaging Makeover.
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