BROWSING: Fiber

Continuing its back to the basics approach, AT&T highlighted long-term growth opportunities from fiber and wireless Following its divestiture of the Warner Media assets and under the leadership of CEO John Stankey, AT&T appears to be a much more focused organization. And that focus, according...

Lumenisity makes hollow core fiber for data centers and ISPs Microsoft has acquired U.K.-based Lumenisity, a start-up that makes hollow core fiber (HCF) solutions, primarily for data centers and internet service providers (ISPs). Microsoft has said that the acquisition of Lumenisity’s technology will better help...

The global market for fiber infrastructure is exploding. This is fueling a rise in specialized fiber companies including telcos who are now separating off their fiber business to increase market value. To succeed, legacy IT systems must be replaced with a lean, cloud-based IT...

As part of the acquisition, BAI obtains ZenFi’s portfolio of assets, including over 1,100 route miles of fiber network throughout the New York and New Jersey metro region Communications infrastructure provider BAI Communications announced the close of its acquisition of ZenFi Networks, which serves parts...

Greetings from New York City (pictured), Lake Charles (Louisiana), Nevada (Missouri), and other points across the Midwest.  It’s been great being out on the road and seeing fiber deployments finally coming into shape (Fastwyre’s recent 9-area fiber expansion coverage from Diana Goovaerts at Fierce...

T-Mobile US is looking into the possibility of building a fiber network, either as part of a joint venture or a commercial partnership, according to reporting by Bloomberg. AT&T and Verizon have significant fiber networks, both to support fiber-to-the-premise enterprise and residential services...

The project, led by China Telecom and Singtel, will add 18 TBps of regional capacity A group of Communication Service Providers (CSPs) servicing the Asia Pacific region announced Tuesday a shared investment of $300 million to develop a 6,000 kilometer (km) submarine cable system in...

As Altice USA's new CEO takes over, the company faces pressure from other fiber network operators and new Fixed Wireless Access services, the possibility of a sale of some assets and a continuing focus on selling high-speed fiber broadband services. New CEO Dennis Mathew,...

‘Customers are unwilling to pay more’ for 5G: Omdia; analysts see 5G and fiber adoption increasing but ARPU dropping in the next five years Since 5G was commercialized in 2019 (2018 if you count pre-standard offerings), operators have been looking for ways to not only...

Vodafone and Altice will each own 50% of the 7-billion-euro joint fiber venture Vodafone has partnered with Amsterdam-based Altice to launch a 7-billion-euro ($6.8 billion) fiber broadband network in Germany. Each company will own 50% of the joint venture, which they are calling FibreCo. According to Vodafone,...

AT&T is expanding its fiber and wireless networks while planning for multi-service edges and distributed Standalone 5G cores DALLAS--AT&T CTO Jeremy Legg last week at the company’s headquarters met with members of the trade press to lay out a phased, one- to two-year strategy that’s...

Open RAN one of many vectors of network transformation focused on service differentiation, operational efficiencies In the process of building out, expanding and advancing its 5G network, Verizon has for several years gone through a very material network transformation. In the two previous installments in...

Editor’s note:  We are very thankful for friends like Jennifer who are there when parental moves come into the picture.  Today’s opening picture was snapped last night as we prepared for the last leg of the “Planes, Automobiles, Hurricane, U-Haul, Trains” variant of the...

California-based wide-area IoT network provider Actelis Networks has claimed it has received $312,000 in orders since reporting a major multi-year deal with an unnamed provider of airport operations management systems to “modernise and digitise networks”. Actelis Networks said the contract, announced on a recent...

Zayo CEO sees edge as requiring data center capacity, networking and other service support Multiple mega-trends impacting how telecommunications operators strategically evolve their own businesses while delivering solutions for the digital transformation of their customers depend on access to fiber optic infrastructure. Whether that’s network...

AT&T commitment to fiber deployment prompts major manufacturing investment by Corning AT&T is working to deploy fiber at a massive scale with plans to cover 30 million locations by 2025. Fiber manufacturer Corning, based on a commitment from AT&T, today announced it will open a...

New Corning fiber manufacturing facility to open in 2024 Based on a long-term arrangement with AT&T, Corning today announced it's opening a new fiber manufacturing plant in Gilbert, Arizona. The company said the new plant, set to open in 2024 and employee 250 workers, is...

Clearfield's CEO Cheri Beranek discusses how ongoing supply-chain constraints are impacting the fiber industry and explores to what extent federal funding will help address this and other challenges related to building out fiber assets and closing the digital divide.

Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and approximately 85,000 route miles of fiber Crown Castle expects to double the rate of small cell deployments next year compared to the 5,000 nodes the firm expect to put on air this...

AT&T will provide its fiber internet solution to more than 750 McDonald’s restaurants across the U.S. In anticipation of a big change to the restaurant experience, McDonald’s USA has tapped AT&T to provide its fiber internet solution to more than 750 of its locations across...

Cincinnati-based solution integrator, Powernet, has installed big iron DAS in large commercial facilities and multi-dwelling units. While valuing the robust and reliable QoS of this technology, integrators have to frequently overcome the challenge of a costly solution & lengthy installation time of traditional active...

Nokia exec: 'Fiber is the ultimate broadband infrastructure. It has almost unlimited capacity' Nokia’s research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, has announced that it has achieved a record-breaking 100Gb/second on a single passive optical network (PON) wavelength using 100G PON technology. The prototype, which is said to “mimic real-world...

Nokia said it has set aside 25 network in a box FTTH kits with everything rural broadband operators need to hook up to 1,000 homes.

Always a crucial aspect of business, the importance of connection was highlighted when the pandemic hit. Our guest this episode, Kevin Coyne of Summit Broadband, strives to be an instrument in building a connected community of tomorrow with Summit Broadband's products and services. With...