For Our Readers

OSP™ offers service providers How-To solutions
for making effective and cost-efficient technology decisions at the network's edge. Unique deployment strategies are shared via tutorials, case histories and technology trend updates. OSP™ equips telecom professionals with the educational content necessary to meet their network objectives in a continually evolving marketplace.

OSP™'s trusted content is delivered to readers in three different forms:

  1. OSP™ Magazine and Digital Edition
  2. OSP EXPO™ Exhibits and Educational Offerings
  3. E-newsletter and www.ospmag.com

Editorial Synopsis: OSP™ focuses on content areas that cover the planning, engineering, deployment, maintenance and restoration of the service providers' converging networks:

  • FTTC/FTTN/FTTP Architectures
  • IPTV and Home Networking Upgrading Copper for The Triple Play
  • Installation and Maintenance (Underground and Aerial Update)
  • Wireless/Wireline Infrastructure Convergence
  • Field Testing and Asset Management
  • Buyer's Guide: Annual special section highlighting the infrastructure products providers will purchase for their broadband networks.


OSP™ provides monthly columns written by industry experts emphasizing hot topics of the OSP.

  • Editor's Note - Sharon Vollman (Monthly)
  • OSP™ Expert - Don McCarty (Monthly)
  • Telcom Giants - Bob Stoffels (Quarterly)
  • OSP™ Safety - Carl and Deb Potter (Quarterly)


Why OSP™'s content and expertise stands apart from news-oriented telecom trade magazines:

  • OSP™'s editorial content focuses on How-To education: emerging technology tutorials, case histories and new product information that providers trust.
  • Credible authors submit educational content across all of OSP™'s delivery vehicles: print, e-newsletter, www.ospmag.com and educational offerings.
  • Webinars, Webcasts and Service Provider Roundtables are facilitated by industry veteran Sharon Vollman, Editorial Director.
  • Readers rely on OSP™'s print and Interactive Buyer's Guides to research the infrastructure products they plan to purchase for their broadband networks.