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Articles Frontier sees long upgrade path for XGS-PON Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/24/2021 Future-proofing the network well beyond 10-Gig is one of the reasons Frontier Communications is bullish on XGS-PON as the company pursues a major, multi-year fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) upgrade initiative. Frontier sizes up 10-Gig future with XGS-PON rollout Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/23/2021 Frontier Communications has hooked up with Nokia to connect about 100,000 homes to XGS-PON technology, a move that puts the telco on a path to eventually deliver symmetrical 10Gbit/s broadband services. AT&T may go even bigger with fiber Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/22/2021 AT&T could consider raising its fiber buildout beyond 30 million residential and business locations by 2025, under the right circumstances, according to company CEO John Stankey. Experimental 'RFoF' broadband goes live in rural Missouri Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 9/21/2021 Residents of Turney, Missouri - a village in Clinton County - have a new way to connect to the Internet. And stakeholders hope the experiment will help tackle the digital divide in the rural area. 'GAP' node standards are cleared for takeoff Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/21/2021 Taking a step toward network and service convergence, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) recently approved two standards for the Generic Access Platform (GAP), an initiative focused on the development of standardized nodes for access networks. Vodafone, ITU launch initiative to connect 3.4B people to mobile Internet Broadband World News, , 9/20/2021 Vodafone and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are embarking on a "major new initiative" to address the global digital divide - with the aim to give an additional 3.4 billion people access to the Internet through a smartphone by 2030. Who should pay for the bridge across the digital divide? Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/17/2021 The Biden administration's massive infrastructure bill - which would allocate fully $65 billion for broadband - appears to be nearing the finish line. As a result, policy pundits across the country are debating how to overhaul to a decades-old program designed to finance bridges across the digital divide. FCC stamps another 466 winning RDOF bids Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/17/2021 Another 466 winning bids from phase I of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) have been blessed by the FCC. ISPs suffer losses and make plans in face of climate crisis Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 9/16/2021 Just as COVID-19 ushered in an acceptance that broadband is essential, the concurrent era of a worsening climate crisis is also making clear just how vulnerable that critical infrastructure is. The Divide: How Uprise Fiber seeks to solve what you hate about your ISP Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 9/16/2021 On this episode, Sam Sanders, CEO of Uprise Fiber, discusses his company's goal of serving as a new high-speed, affordable Internet option for customers who aren't happy with or are left out by incumbent service. North Africa has world's slowest broadband speed Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 9/15/2021 North Africa has the world's slowest broadband as a collective region followed by sub-Saharan Africa which is the second slowest in the world. Comcast shares slip on broadband growth warning Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/14/2021 Comcast shares closed down 7.3% Tuesday after company CFO Mike Cavanagh warned that subscriber growth in broadband, now considered the cornerstone of Comcast's cable business, is showing signs of slowing when compared to pre-pandemic levels. Load More Articles + All Articles All Articles Perspectives: Opinion & Commentary Texas should adopt a statewide comprehensive approach to tackling the digital divide Heather Gate, Vice President, Digital Inclusion, Connected Nation and CN Texas, , 5/6/2021 For most Texans, life without Internet access is unimaginable. The Internet has become embedded in every aspect of our daily lives - from streaming movies, working, running small businesses, attending virtual classrooms and taking part in telehealth visits. It has become impossible to efficiently access economic opportunity and basic resources without ... More Perspectives		Industry Announcements Calix helps CTC Telecom cut call volumes and truck rolls Thursday, September 23, 2021 Frontier, Nokia connect 100,000 homes to XGS-PON Thursday, September 23, 2021 Honeywell expands small-satellite product offerings Wednesday, September 22, 2021 InCoax unveils its D2501 to help solve last-mile challenge Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Comcast expands Internet Essentials to Pell Grant recipients Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Kinetic bringing fiber to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Monday, September 20, 2021 DZS, Freedom Fibre deliver fiber access to TalkTalk subs Thursday, September 16, 2021 More Industry Announcements Twitter Feed Tweets by Broadband World News Information Resources >> Drive Down Costs, Drive New Services Forward: Discover the Freedom of Disaggregation in Your Network >> The Synergies of Disaggregation >> eBook: Make Your Help Desk Data Work for You >> White Paper: Routing at the Network Edge >> Delivering on the promise of broadband >> FTTx Case Study Series eBook >> Broadband networks case studies - Innovating the future of FTTx and HFC networks >> Virtualizing the cable headend >> Network Convergence - Building a smart, simple infrastructure with advanced network capabilities >> Network Capacity: Why You Should Be Concerned All resources Webinars Wednesday, October 6, 2021 11:00 a.m. New York / 4:00 p.m. London Cloud-Native Containerized Solutions for PON: How to Make Them Work and Why You Should Consider Them The demand for high-speed broadband services and hyperconnectivity has driven massive surges in network data usage like never before. Due to this trend, the networks of communications service providers (CSPs) are increasingly overburdened. Service providers need to optimize their networks to scale service delivery efficiently, while maximizing the opportunity to innovate at a rapid pace. Learn how cloud-native containerized solutions can position CSP networks for long-term evolution and sustainable growth. Hear practical steps and flexible options for implementing a cloud-native PON solution in your network. Discover how to maximize operational resources and make way for enhanced applications, innovations and new use cases. Topics to be covered include: Microservices Containerization How to implement cloud-native containerized PON The convergence of fiber and mobile networks More Webinars Webinar Archives