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In a world where digitization now touches every facet of our daily lives, internet connectivity is no longer just a luxury, it’s an essential ...
Posted by Jason Cartwright
We’ve all heard the old saying, “a dollar saved is a dollar earned,” but is this true when deploying a wireless network? For wireless applications, ...
Posted by Jaimie Polanco
The pressure is on for design engineers and manufacturers to develop new, quality products to function in broadband and wireless networks. To ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
PPC Broadband had a memorable 2019, highlighted by three acquisitions and an expansion of our fiber product portfolio. We attended 25+ trade shows on ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
As we move forward to 2019, we're looking back on a few of the highlights of the cable industry and on another successful year for PPC Broadband. ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
For broadband service providers and operators, the pressure is on to bring new, enhanced and high-quality products to market for quicker download ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
Balancing the price of network components against the lifetime cost is an ongoing challenge for broadband service providers as they strive to ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
The rapid development of ultra broadband (UBB) connectivity (defined as provision of downstream data rates of 100 Mbits per second over any type of ...
Posted by Esther Wise
Studies have shown that 40% of all cable broadband service calls are related to issues with the drop network. So if you’re looking to ensure better ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
The telecoms industry has been developing with monumental pace in recent years, as highlighted in the latest Telecoms.com Intelligence Annual ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
Fiber-optic broadband is changing lives around the globe - whether it’s enabling people to work and study remotely, the rise of more clever and ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
Cable manufacturers and suppliers are required to meet specific classifications for the products they sell around the world, and label it as such for ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
The continuing evolution of the internet, and the ever-increasing consumer demand for quality, capacity and speed, means broadband service providers ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
The global broadband market is becoming increasingly mobile. According to data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), mobile broadband ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
In today’s technological world, internet speed is important to everyone. Almost every household has multiple web-enabled devices, and with the ...
Posted by Krista Thresh
TV and Internet service providers are always looking for ways to help improve the customer experience of their broadband network, while keeping costs ...
Posted by Dave Daly
In this post, we explore how you can future proof and differentiate a property through delivering a fiber solution, while also increasing customer ...
Posted by Dave Daly
If you are trying to decide on a product to include in your network design or installation – and you have a choice between several products that meet ...
Posted by Dave Daly
With increased bandwidth beyond 1 GHz, maintaining the correct carrier levels at a subscriber location is becoming more difficult. The challenge is ...
Posted by Rick Haube
In managing the infrastructure of broadband networks, an often underacknowledged element is the coaxial cabling and connectors required to deliver ...
Posted by Dave Daly
Delivering DOCSIS services, whether it is 64 QAM upstream (3.0) or orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) 1024 (3.1), is often possible ...
Posted by Dave Daly
The broadband FTTH market is in its infancy in North America and very little attention has been paid to the last 150’ drop necessary to bring a low ...
Posted by William Crawford
Fusion splicing is often used and is appropriate for trunk portions of a network; it offers low optical and reflection loss and splicing efficiency ...
Posted by Shaun Trezise
The last drop of a subscriber communications network - from the node or tap to the home (also known as the "drop network") - has traditionally been ...
Posted by Rick Haube
As the use of FTTx architectures grows in the MSO community, the selection of a specific delivery architecture and technology should be based on the ...
Posted by Paul Ekpenyong
In our digitally connected world, consumers increasingly require high speed broadband in their homes, whether for leisure, work, education or keeping ...
Posted by Esther Wise
99% isn’t good enough! The cable industry is changing rapidly, with consumers increasingly demanding greater capacity so that they can download and ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
One of the questions asked about fiber to the home (FTTH) networks is simple – what are the applications that will need the high capacity and speed ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
Most people have heard of Moore’s Law, which broadly states that the number of transistors on a silicon chip will double every two years, with a ...
Posted by Shaun Trezise
Fitting connectors to fiber optic cables in the field is a complex and highly specialized task. It is easy for dust and dirt to contaminate ...
Posted by Dave Stockton
In a previous blog I looked at the strong case for NGPON2, a fiber system which offers a minimum of 40 Gb/s aggregate downstream bandwidth, spread ...
Posted by Maxine Frith
Let’s face it - the telecoms industry doesn’t have the best of reputations when it comes to customer satisfaction. But something seems to be ...
Posted by Tim Gigg
On both sides of the Atlantic, we are seeing a growing buildout of metro fiber networks, as well as a consolidation of national fiber, which will ...
Posted by Maxine Frith
Spanish eyes are currently smiling on record growth in the fiber to the home (FTTH) market, as operators compete to roll out super-fast broadband ...
Posted by Joe Byrne
Fiber to the home (FTTH) deployments are set to ramp up significantly over the next two years. Especially in the US, we are now moving from the early ...
Posted by Shaun Trezise
To the layperson, all fiber cables can seem the same, with the only potential difference being in their dimensions. But look closer and there is a ...
Posted by Dave Stockton
At first sight, a mobile network and a modern, optical fiber-rich, fixed line network have little in common. They might be seen as competitors. After ...
Posted by Simon Roberts
When rolling out a new fiber to the home (FTTH) network operators have to take into account multiple factors, including potential demand, deployment ...
Posted by David Stockton
When deploying a fiber network, one of the key factors used to calculate ROI is how long it will operate. After all, some copper networks have lasted ...
Posted by Simon Roberts
Deploying an entirely new fiber network, while meeting tough budget constraints - all within tight timescales - is a challenge for any operator. Add ...
Posted by Rich Contreras
Across the world, people are increasingly demanding faster broadband - and it is often one of the factors they take into account when choosing where ...
Posted by Joe Byrne
In previous blogs, we’ve looked at what will drive demand for the increased bandwidth that fiber to the home connections provide. One of the biggest ...
Posted by David Stockton
In a previous blog I explored the move from GPON to NGPON2 fiber architectures, as telcos look to deliver gigabit speeds to their users. Things have ...
Posted by Paul Ryan
Today we are almost completely dependent on our connectivity. Thanks to the web, we are surfing, streaming, working more flexibly, and turning our ...
Posted by Paul Ekpenyong
Many years ago when I was in Japan on business, I had the pleasure of travelling on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka. It ...
Posted by Dave Stockton
When deciding the best fiber architecture for their network, planners have to make the choice between point to point (P2P) or a passive ...
Posted by Paul Ryan
The Irish government has announced an ambitious National Broadband Plan (NBP) to intervene in the provision of broadband services covering 700,000 ...
Posted by Dave Stockton
Even in the midst of current fiber network rollouts, research and development is continuing on the next generation of optical technology, looking to ...
Posted by Joe Byrne
Previously, we’ve looked at the applications that will drive the need for Fiber to the Home (FTTH) networks. One of the areas mentioned was the ...
Posted by Dave Stockton
In a previous blog, I looked at Standards Organizations, what they do and how they relate to each other. As a follow up this post looks at how ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
Earlier in February, I attended the 2015 FTTH Europe conference in Warsaw, where there seemed to be greater optimism around the European fiber market ...
Posted by Larry Malone
In a previous blog post, my colleague, Tom Carpenter gave his views on the global Fiber to the Home (FTTH) market, and discussed the ongoing "net ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
Following on from my half year report back in June 2014, I thought it is worthwhile to share my views on what has been happening across the Fiber to ...
Posted by Dave Stockton
In the high-tech telecoms world, the credit for new advances often goes to smart scientists and busy entrepreneurs. However, there is a group of ...
Posted by Shaun Trezise
If you live in a rural location, super fast broadband roll-outs can take a long time to reach you - but if you're still waiting to be connected to ...
Posted by Jonathan Este
There were raised eyebrows among digital natives in Australia recently when Netflix announced it would open for business in Australia in March 2015. ...
Posted by Dave Stockton
It is one of life’s ironies that the equipment used to establish ultra-fast communication links, the telecommunications fixed network, has lived up ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
How did the universe begin? Does it have an end? Answering these questions is the aim of the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), which will be ...
Posted by Joe Byrne
The introduction in the United States of gigabit Fiber to the Home (FTTH) connectivity made me wonder what this extra speed could be used for. After ...
Posted by Joe Byrne
Currently operators in countries around the world are investing heavily in rolling out fiber broadband to subscribers, either directly with Fiber to ...
Posted by Colin Dennison
Today’s cars are full of the latest electronic toys, making them a moving office and entertainment center all in one. We have CD players, iPod ports, ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
In business, everyone expects high quality products and services, meaning that praise from customers is pretty rare. So, when our US partner Core ...
Posted by Simon Roberts
Recently I visited Thailand on business, providing me with a vivid reminder of my back packing days twenty years ago. Then my adventure was raw, ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
As we approach the halfway mark of 2014, I thought it worthwhile to share my views on the trends we are seeing in the FTTH and pushable fiber market ...
Posted by Colin Dennison
I’ve just come back from sunny Moscow, where I attended a very busy Sviaz-Expocomm show. Officially titled the 26th International Exhibition for ...
Posted by Simon Roberts
Currently one of the fastest growing markets for fibre is in Africa, with huge communications infrastructure rollouts underway across the continent. ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
Amidst all the high speed network rollouts that are happening across the world, there’s an ongoing discussion about the relative balance between ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
The deployment of high speed fibre broadband has the ability to regenerate whole regions, boosting business competitiveness and creating jobs. ...
Posted by Larry Malone
The news that Los Angeles is planning a gigabit fiber network to connect every business and home within the city limits is a further demonstration of ...
Posted by Dave Stockton
This week sees the 80th birthday of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, the pioneering electrical engineer who has been described as the Father of Fibre Optics and ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
In a previous post we discussed the options consumers and businesses have when it comes to high speed broadband in the UK. In this follow on piece, ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
Over half of us now have a smartphone and we’re using mobile devices for more and more data intensive applications. It is predicted that by 2014, ...
Posted by Paul Ekpenyong
Given the overwhelming success of British Cycling, both at the Olympics and the Tour de France, businesses have naturally been looking at how such ...
Posted by Dave Stockton
In the telecoms market innovation is constant as new standards and technologies are developed and rolled out around the world. The pace of change in ...
Posted by Martin Gossling
The move to the Cloud and explosion in Big Data is driving unprecedented growth in the data centre market. Analyst company TechNavio forecasts a ...
Posted by Martin Gossling
The equipment used in oil and gas extraction has to be able to cope with the harshest of environments. From the sub zero temperatures of Alaska to ...
Posted by Martin Gossling
Like many countries France is moving rapidly to a fibre optic future. Latest figures from telecoms regulator ARCEP found that there were 50,000 more ...
Posted by David Stockton
It is sometimes difficult to comprehend the explosive growth in data transmission rates over the last thirty years. We’ve moved from 56k dial up ...
Posted by Martin Gossling
Cars have evolved rapidly over the last decade, moving from the analogue to the digital world. Technology such as video and audio entertainment ...
Posted by Martin Gossling
PPC’s products are designed to protect optical fibre in the toughest surroundings. And while conditions on Earth can be difficult, venture into space ...
Posted by Martin Gossling
Like many countries around the world, the UK government understands that superfast broadband is crucial to competing in the global economy. Whether ...
Posted by Paul Ekpenyong
Operating in harmony with the environment around us is fundamental to the longer term future of the planet. Organisations are therefore increasingly ...
Posted by Tom Carpenter
Smartphones are driving a massive increase in mobile wireless data usage across the globe, which is only accelerating as technologies such as LTE and ...
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