Fiber for Breakfast Week 32: Beyond the Build: Monetizing Fiber for Long-Term Advantage For many fiber providers, the first challenge…
The demand Artificial Intelligence (AI) is putting on networks is “dramatic” and is already changing the way individuals and businesses…
For tribal nations, sovereignty and the preservation of indigenous cultures is fundamentally intertwined with the scrutiny, acceptance, and adoption of the latest technologies. This path provides a sustainable bridge between generations while creating jobs and strengthening ownership and self-governance.
Alabama-based Dragonfly Internet is a relatively new service provider but traces back its leadership and experience roots to owner ITC Holding Company, LLC, a venture and management firm with decades of involvement in wireline, cellular, and internet service providers.
EPB started installing the first parts of its smart grid in 2009, leveraging an investment in fiber optics to ultimately connect 1,200 automated switches across its electrical plant along with over 200,000 smart meters across its 600 square-mile Chattanooga, Tennessee, service area. In its 15 years of operations, the smart grid delivered considerable benefits to EPB customers, including a 50-60% annual decrease in outage minutes that translated to up to $55 million in savings per year by helping them avoid spoilage of food, lost productivity due to the shutdown of equipment and ecommerce, and other negative impacts.
Fiber for Breakfast Week 26: The Quantum Edge – Why Fiber Providers Should Pay Attention Now Quantum networking can sound…
One of the ill-kept secrets of the data center world is the expanding construction and ownership of fiber to connect geographic sites. While building fiber miles is more expensive up front, owning a long-term asset with distinct control of the operating environment and costs for 30 or more years is a significant advantage, while also providing the opportunity for additional revenue through leasing dark and lit fiber to third parties.
Fiber for Breakfast Week 25: Building AI-Ready Networks: The Next Evolution of Broadband For decades, broadband providers have built networks around people. People streaming video. People working from home. People browsing the…
One of the ill-kept secrets of the data center world is the expanding construction and ownership of fiber to connect geographic sites. While building fiber miles is more expensive up front, owning a long-term asset with distinct control of the operating environment and costs for 30 or more years is a significant advantage, while also providing the opportunity for additional revenue through leasing dark and lit fiber to third parties.
Fiber for Breakfast Week 24: Fiber Technology Trends For years, the broadband industry has debated which technologies would ultimately win. Cable or fiber….
Mastering the complexities of quantum to move it from lab bench to commercial deployment is not for the faint-hearted, but everyone from determined startups to telecommunications equipment manufacturers and Tier 1 service providers are working to develop the building blocks for real world use. Companies have been able to build stand-alone quantum sensors and quantum computers, but connecting and networking them together, especially at long distances, is a challenge that is just now starting to show steady progress.
Fiber for Breakfast Week 23: State of I&O Strategy in AI Era 2H 2026 For the past two years, AI…