Similar to the classic question on “Get Smart”: “Would you believe that a wall box can support 5G small cell densification with a very compact footprint, extreme fiber density and ease of use?” In…
A popular belief in the fiber optic industry is that for every three skilled technicians who retire, only one person is replacing them. The difficult reality to this belief is that when that one new…
So why am I thinking about rural broadband as I bite into the Impossible™ Whopper®? I was listening to a Dope Labs podcast (https://www.dopelabspodcast.com/) the other day, where Zakiya and Titi…
In most fiber optic construction builds, labor/construction accounts for 70% of the cost of deployment. Equipment costs account for the remaining 30%. Since labor/construction is, by far, the single…
If you’ve been in the telecommunications industry for a few years (like me), when you drive around, you notice every communications enclosure on your route. You may see many different sizes and shapes…
When I grew up in rural Ohio, my brother and I played cops and robbers with neighborhood kids in the fields and woods that surrounded our property. We were about the same age and it was big fun for us…
