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7 Top Trends for 2025 in Telecommunications and Tech

7 Top Trends for 2025 in Telecommunications and Tech

2024 was a year full of innovation as the world moved farther into the digital age. From shifts toward renewable energy to the rise in data transmission to major hyperscalers […]
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Restoring Privacy through Fiber Optics

Since Edward Snowden left the United States with four laptops containing some of the government's most highly classified secrets, no one has looked at Internet communications and data transmissions the same. The extent of the NSA’s snooping and the level of compliance...

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GIS Assists Designing & Expanding Fiber Networks

In early December, Alabama-based 3-GIS announced a contract with Atlantic Engineering Group. The aim of this relationship is to use 3-GIS’s cloud based solution to design telecommunication networks throughout major US cities and then have AEG build out the network....

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Alabama’s First Fiber Network Smart Grid System

Alabama’s First Fiber Network Smart Grid System

It took over five years filled with debates, false claims by competitors that coax is more reliable than fiber, and even a special election, but the Opelika City Council finally approved rates for the city’s new fiber optic system, putting it one step closer to...

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Fiber Optics Part of Hurricane Sandy Recovery

When Hurricane Sandy ripped through the New York area, much of the decades-old copper wires were damaged. By Christmas, Verizon had already laid more than 5,000 miles of fiber optic cables across Manhattan to assist in the recovery efforts. Yet Fire Island, a popular...

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Government Legacy Regulations Need Updating

In a 45-page analysis titled, “Telecommunications Competition: The Infrastructure-Investment Race,” Dr. Anna-Maria Kovacs examines the United States’ regulations that are forcing companies to build and maintain copper-based legacy telephone networks and the impact...

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Counties Work Together for Fiber

For years, Southeast Missouri had been looking for ways to attract businesses to the region, and they finally found the answer through fiber optics. With the help of AT&T, the city of Bonne Terre, Missouri will now be home to an 84-acre fiber-lit business park...

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Fiber Connectivity Boosts Business

Mid-Atlantic managed fiber connectivity and cloud communications service provider Telegia Communications recently relocated their corporate offices to a fiber rich technology park in Frederick, MD. Telecom and network upgrades were major motivators behind the move. At...

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Fiber Optic Companies Are the New Hot Stock

On September 17, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day with a 35-point gain, but that wasn’t the end to a good day for Alliance Fiber Optic Products. The California-based technology company continued to be a hot stock in after-hours trading. The rise occurred...

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