FBA Presents – Trusted Fiber White Paper: Help Protect Our Nation’s Critical Broadband Infrastructure

Join the Fiber Broadband Association to explore the “Measures to Define and Deploy Trusted Fiber” white paper, published by FBA’s Trusted Fiber Working Group, that outlines recommended measures to advance the deployment of fiber in the U.S. The whitepaper provides a complete checklist of critical factors that service providers and government purchasers can leverage to ensure the fiber they are procuring is, in fact, “trusted.”

While the fiber broadband industry has embraced quality standards and improved performance specifications over the years to create a well-deserved reputation for long-term reliability, global fiber standards specify only minimum levels of performance. The Trusted Fiber white paper makes suggestions for higher levels of performance beyond global standards and provides background on important guidelines that fiber purchasers should consider to ensure that the fiber they are procuring is trusted. The Trusted Fiber report contains recommendations in the following critical categories:

• Fiber Quality, Reliability, and Long-Term Performance
• National Security
• Corporate Governance
• Dumping and Subsidies
• Labor and Worker Rights
• Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability