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Running The Numbers

“Datapoints” is researched and written exclusively for Broadband Library by MS Consulting LLC”

Leading Education for Industry Leaders

By Chris Bastian – You can learn more about the Leadership Institute programs developed to strengthen current and upcoming leaders in your organization, and the discounts your organization may receive as a Corporate Alliance Partner, by contacting SCTE.

Is Open RAN Ready?

By David Debrecht – With CableLabs’ efforts in addition to the 5G Challenge, it has worked with more than 15 different vendors’ Open RAN solutions and developed methods for testing and evaluating compliance prior to connecting systems together and attempting multi-vendor systems integration.

I See Fields of Green

By Derek DiGiacomo – Finally, how can we become more invested in the power marketplace? The launch of Gridmetrics is a strategic venture to obtain information about the supply of electricity. How will we take that to the next level with more intelligence, critical decision aids, and influence over where we secure power?

Cross Sector Resilience Forum

By Andy Scott – Now in its third year, the Forum continues to provide the nation’s leading communications providers and electric companies, and their major trade associations, an effective venue for collaboration on resiliency.

Telecom for Wellness

By Chris Bastian and Dr. Sudheer Dharanikota – The strength of the Standards Program is that it fosters open information sharing and collaboration between network operators and vendor partners. With the Explorer initiative, this ecosystem of collaboration has expanded to include service developers and service users.

The Build Impossible

By the PHANTOM – Man, and you think you got it tough? Me, I really got it tough, working in this ever-changing industry with no sense of how to deal with a haunt in their midst. But how about building an all-fiber system in a sparsely populated area where it is cold.

Beyond the Cheetah

By Brady Volpe – The cable industry hopes to deliver Internet so fast even your dog can’t catch it. Beyond fast broadband internet services. DOCSIS 3.1 has a lot of potential and we haven’t even scratched the surface yet, but DOCSIS 4.0 is fast on its heels. Let’s take a closer look.

Running The Numbers

“Datapoints” is researched and written exclusively for Broadband Library by MS Consulting LLC”

Cloud-Powered PON

By Steve Harris – Today, most operators are on the path to a passive optical network (PON) deployment. Many operators are only focused on upstream and downstream bandwidth in their deployment of FTTH or migrating their old PON technologies to a new more robust PON solution. Migration is not easy, often laborious, and complicated, presenting service interruptions for subscribers.