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DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note:
Let’s Gigafy America
By Masha Zager, Broadband Communities
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Bandwidth Hawk
Make Public Broadband An Option in All States
By Steven S. Ross, Broadband Communities
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IN THIS ISSUE
Provider Perspective
Fuel for Thought
By Bryan Rader, Bandwidth Consulting LLC
Highway convenience stores all sell the same gas, but they compete on the extras. Private cable operators can learn a lesson from this.
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Property of the Month
UP at Metroplex: ‘New Benchmark for Student Housing’
By Masha Zager, Broadband Communities
A student housing complex serving Binghamton University provides top-of-the-line wired and wireless broadband.
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The Gigabit Highway
Fiber Builds Communities
By Heather Burnett Gold, FTTH Council Americas
Communities can expect fiber networks to yield benefits in terms of economic development and tax revenues.
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COVER STORY – INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
Deployment Strategies for FTTH Networks
By Albert Domingo and Miquel Oliver, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, and Marlies Van der Wee and Sofie Verbrugge, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium
There’s more than one strategy for succeeding with an FTTH deployment – and more than one way to run into trouble.
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FEATURES
FTTH Deployments
The Role of the Local Transport Provider
What does the network operator actually do in an open-access network?.
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Broadband Policy
Harnessing the Potential of Gigabit Cities
By Denise Linn, Harvard University
Cities are finding new ways to take advantage of next-generation broadband infrastructure.
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Introducing Next Century Cities
By Deb Socia, Next Century Cities
A new coalition of cities is raising the bar for fast Internet service across the U.S..
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Hot Products
BROADBAND COMMUNITIES 14th Annual List Of Leading Broadband Technologies and Services
The latest offerings from top broadband hardware and software suppliers, distributors and service providers.
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Technology
Deploying In-Building Wireless Systems / Q&A With Kunal Hinduja, ARQ
Property owners need indoor wireless infrastructure that offers great coverage and capacity, looks good and comes at a reasonable cost. Balancing these objectives is a complex undertaking.
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A New Solution for RF Return
By Masha Zager, Broadband Communities
Cable companies transitioning to fiber find a new low-cost option for combining GPON with traditional cable video.
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Rethinking Drop Fiber
By Johnny Hill, Clearfield Inc.
Rethinking the protection requirements for drop fiber led Clearfield to develop a new type of drop fiber cable.
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