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Jimmy Ray starts off easy with some interesting history but then dives right off the deep end like normal explaining like only he can. Read More »
Tags: fiber, fiber network, Jimmy Ray Purser, TechWiseTV
By Steven Shepard, Contributing Columnist
I have always loved trains. Never knew why, but I think I just discovered the reason. They’re part of the industry I work in – or at least played a founding role here in the United States. And, they gave us much of the terminology that infuses our telecom vocabulary: switches routers, hubs, trunks, lines, etc.
But one railroad in particular played a fundamental role in the development of the industry and, more importantly, in the development of a truly competitive U.S. telecommunications industry.
Tags: fiber, investment, network infrastructure, Service Provider, telecommunications
By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist
Wireless bandwidth has been on my mind a lot recently. Computerworld recently published my article, Wireless Bandwidth: Are We Running Out of Room?, which led to a stint on NPR’s “To The Point” on the topic. But until I tuned into one of the latest Broadband Breakfast presentations, The Wired Home and Wireless Policy – Convergence Legislation and Consumer Adoption, I didn’t realize that I’d been thinking about wireless in a way that technology people are supposed to avoid: in a silo.
Tags: broadband, fiber, policy, Service Provider, wireless network, wireline network
By Steven Shepard, Contributing Columnist
Telecommunications infrastructure is so pervasive that we sometimes don’t even see it — one of those blind spots that fade from consciousness due to overexposure. Cables run from pole-to-pole; cell towers spring up; utility boxes on sidewalks, sometimes painted to match the wooden fence behind them — hidden within plain sight.
Tags: fiber, infrastructure, internet, Service Provider, sewer, superfast broadband
I’ve been working on a future-oriented economic growth program with the US Conference of Mayors and we have identified Chattanooga as a location to demonstrate some of these ideas because it has, by far, the largest and fastest deployment of fiber in any metro area in the US — enabling every home and other building to have a gigabit connection.
Tags: #economic growth, Chattanooga, economic development, fiber, gigabit, mayors, network
