LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

An Access Network Evolution with DAA

By Steven Harris — For all the folks supporting the traditional telecommunication access network, or the network connecting our subscribers, the evolution has begun! The priority of reliability, capacity, service quality and reduced latency for the customer experience is top of mind for operators.

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10 Gbps Symmetrical with XGS-PON

By Steven Harris — Nowadays there are two symmetrical choices in the GPON roadmap for 10 Gbps: XGS-PON (ITU-T G.9807.1) and NG-PON2 (ITU-T G.989). In XGS-PON, the “X” refers to 10 Gbps while the “S” refers to symmetrical.

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Live Long and Multiplex?

By Steven Harris — This article was written to get you started on your journey to learn about the latest fiber optic technologies, protocols, and architectures leveraged in our networks.

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Grasping the Theory of Fiber Optics

By Steven Harris — The transport medium of choice for these future cable access networks and next generation services will be fiber optic cabling. As I shared in my previous articles, operators are focused on improving the quality of the network and transforming them with new fiber deep, FTTx, and distributed access architecture.

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Exploring SCTE ISBE’s VirtuLearn Ax4

By Reni Gorman – With this feedback in mind we took a critical look at our learning programs. They really were very rich and thorough — should we cut away at the depth that explains the hows and whys? If we do keep the depth we have to make it easier to learn from by making it engaging and interactive, and we have to make sure we also teach how to apply what they’ve learned on the job, and keep from forgetting important technical details that often cause problems downstream.

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