By Jim Kane – The passage of time is marked by significant historical events: JFK, Y2K, 9/11. Most recently we have entered the post-COVID era. In some cases, such as Y2K, service providers were able to prepare for possible disruptions caused by equipment that would interpret the two-digit year (00) as 1900 rather than 2000.
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Mike Whitley – DOCSIS PNM, embedded into every subscriber’s cable modem, offers the potential to empower technicians to monitor the performance of the plant and identify issues with even more granularity than an amp-located transponder would yield – without the additional power draw or cost. Better leveraging PNM as an alternative to adding additional costs to individual amps is, at the least, worthy of consideration.
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By Dave Wachob – As estimated deployment dates of extended spectrum DOCSIS networks loom closer and larger, the prospect of widely available multi-gigabit data service tiers now seems not only possible, but predictable over the next several years.
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By Joe Sayakumane – Amphenol Broadband Solutions expands fiber capacity with DWDM solutions that combine simplicity, security, and reliability. Its AOM (Advanced Optical Module) has been designed to handle high channel counts in a form factor that is appropriate in both inside and outside plant settings.
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By Robin Fenton – We work with industry leadership to solve real-world challenges. Curriculums are based on current job roles, specific job tasks, and required practical behaviors to empower future technologies.
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By Agnes Francis Adolphine – Adult learning principles used to engage technical professionals in continuous development, upskilling, motivation, and learning application are the foci for invigorating learning cultures in corporate environments.
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By Abbie O’Dell – Video tutorials, online resources, and quick reference guides offer significant benefits to organizations as we seek to increase the pace of our work and elevate the support we provide our customers — but alone they will not produce results.
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Pasi Järvenpää – The insatiable demand for bandwidth, the growing need for reliability, competitive dynamics, and the need to expand their footprint are driving operators to massively invest in their network infrastructures and operations.
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By Mark Poletti – We are seeing an industry trend of virtualization and cloudification of 5G core and radio access network (RAN) functions onto a shared compute platform architecture. This is all happening while mobile operators are transitioning from 4G to 5G.
Read MoreBy Dr. Curtis Knittle – Equally important will be defining coherent solutions in a point-to-multipoint topology, known as coherent passive optical networking (CPON), in which case the active component is replaced with a completely passive optical splitter/combiner.
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