By Matt Polka – The just-enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), with $65B in funding for broadband, holds out the promise of closing the availability and adoption gaps. But that will only occur if the money is spent wisely. What will the federal and state agencies need to do to make this happen?
Read MoreBy Dr. Mario Di Dio – In today’s digital world, our mobile devices have become a natural extension of our bodies. No matter where we are, whether in the car, on vacation, at work, out running errands or at home on the couch, we expect continuous connectivity — to everything, everywhere, all the time.
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By Timothy Cooke – Hybrid cable can be broadly defined as two (or more) different types of cable contained within the same sheath. Perhaps most common is a combination of optical fibers along with copper power cable.
Read MoreBy Mike Venter and Monica Hue – Unlike backhaul networks that often employ amplifiers and other active devices, 5G fronthaul DWDM networks are designed to be less complex.
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By Rick Sullivan – The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) promises to bring true broadband connectivity to America’s wide-open places and small “off the beaten path” spots.
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By Jason Rupe – The proactive network maintenance (PNM) community has a culture of being meta-proactive by quickly improving itself. Take for example how the PNM working group (PNM-WG) at CableLabs and SCTE’s Network Operations Subcommittee Working Group 7 (NOS WG7).
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By Doug Jones – Over the years there have been many different splits which recently have been standardized by the DOCSIS specifications as sub-split, mid-split and high-split. The accompanying table translates each split to the available broadband capacity using DOCSIS 3.1.
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By Srilal Weera, Ph.D. – Trained teams manually examine tens of thousands of ads a month and quarantine the failed ones. The challenge for AI is how to automate that process with a machine learning engine embedded within the ad ingest workflow.
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By Ron Hranac – The days of designing, building, and operating service provider networks in silos has finally sunset. Make way for converged IP networks where the “network” is truly an end-to-end solution integrated and automated for networking, security, and compute.
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By Jim Kane – The ideal fiber management system should start with a diverse portfolio of basic building blocks; medium to high-density, Layer 1 modules.
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