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Ethernet business services including cell site backhaul, internet access, and all the flavors of virtual private networks are among the most profitable and fastest growing services at many communications service providers. The best operations teams take great care to ensure business services are high quality on delivery to eliminate costly customer disputes. Here’s a list […]

Data centers are facilities that store and distribute the data we find on the internet. With more than 100 billion web pages, as well as a growing amount of high bandwidth video, it’s easy to understand why giant warehouse-sized data centers have hundreds of thousands of servers, switches, and storage and up to a million […]

Much of the world’s digital information is moving to the cloud. Cloud technology is proving invaluable to a variety of businesses and organizations. Most companies today use the cloud in some way, from productivity apps to data storage. The level of performance provided by the cloud highly depends on the quality of the internet connection, […]

The fifth generation of wireless technology, or 5G, is expected to be widely implemented throughout the world beginning from the year 2020. By the end of 2025, this new network is expected to attract 2.6 billion subscriptions, as predicted by Ericsson Mobility Report 2019. Many countries all over the world are competing against each other, […]

The adoption of newer technologies such as 5G will not only act as a positive catalyst for opportunities in the telecom sector, but it will have a ripple effect across many industries. It will unleash an unprecedented level of change in the workplace – from transforming employee interaction to banishing the traditional 9-5 job, the […]

Hey Bennu, TAG! Four years and roughly 2 billion miles ago, on a planet far, far away, a bold mission was initiated. NASA launched the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, known as OSIRIS-REx, to analyze and sample the asteroid Bennu. Traveling onboard the spacecraft is a tiny, but highly sophisticated VIAVI optical filter array that is […]

The citizen band (CB) radio was invented in 1945, but really gained popularity in the 1970s. CB radios were mainly used by emergency personnel until the oil crisis of 1973. This crisis helped push CB radios into the hands of everyday citizens to notify drivers which gas stations had fuel. President Jimmy Carter declared October […]

Where’s the problem? The basic function of a TDR is to test a cable to either verify its length and quality, or to identify points in the cable that are causing problems. Traditionally the user would look at the trace, in which reflections are indicated by positive or negative deviations, and place a marker on […]

Fiber is being pushed deeper and deeper into access networks worldwide as service providers continue to address subscriber demands for higher capacity services. Going “fiber deep” could be part of G.fast deployments for telco operators or Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) upgrades for cable companies, but the next step (or end step) is full fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) […]

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