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JULY 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
New York artist Irving
Grunbaum is seeing
stars – fber-to-the-home
stars, that is.
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COVER STORY
DEPARTMENTS
2
EDITOR'S NOTE
6
BANDWIDTH HAWK
94
MARKETPLACE ADS
95
ADVERTISER INDEX /
CALENDAR
IN THIS ISSUE
26
FTTH Top 100 List /
A BBC Staff Report
Leaders and innovators in the fiber-to-the-
home arena for 2015
COMMUNITY
BROADBAND
22
Lexington Goes for a Gig /
By Masha Zager,
Broadband Communities
Mayor Jim Gray's fiber optic initiative
puts Lexington, Ky., on a forward-
looking path.
FIBER AND WIRELESS
DEPLOYMENT
76
Holy Cross High School
Graduates to a New Network /
By Masha Zager,
Broadband Communities
A new network infrastructure
in a private high school yields
educational benefits.
OPINION
78
Connecting Cambridge /
By Saul Tannenbaum,
Cambridge Broadband Task Force
Why doesn't Cambridge, Mass.,
have a next-generation network?
THE LAW
80
FCC Connect America
Fund Advances Broadband
Deployment /
By Douglas Jarrett, Keller and Heckman
Competitive providers get ready
to bid on CAF funds for the
underserved areas that the price-cap
carriers turn down.
BROADBAND APPS
84
Distributed Work Centers /
By Michael B. Shear,
Strategic Office Networks
Beyond telecommuting:
Broadband infrastructure offers
the opportunity to redesign the
concept of the worksite.
TECHNOLOGY
90
Optical Fiber in the
Living Unit /
By Anurag Jain and
John George
, OFS
A new solution for installing fiber
invisibly with no disruption to
residents.
FEATURES
PROVIDER
PERSPECTIVE
8
We Can Run Away
With This Market /
By Bryan J. Rader,
Bandwidth Consulting LLC
Paying attention to what
customers want is more
productive than playing
catch-up with competitors.
METRICS
10
Next-Generation
Internet /
By David Daugherty,
Korcett Holdings
Legacy cable and telco
infrastructure was designed
for the pre-Internet world.
Next-generation Internet
needs a new approach.
PROPERTY OF
THE MONTH
14
$25 Gigabit Wows
Residents: Park
Square at Seven Oaks,
Bakersfield, Calif. /
By Masha Zager, Broadband
Communities
The developer of these new
luxury apartments installed its
own fiber-to-the-unit network
and provides Internet service
to residents.
THE GIGABIT
HIGHWAY
96
FTTH Boosts
Home Values /
By Heather Burnett Gold,
FT TH Council Americas
Fiber-delivered Internet
increases home values by up
to 3.1 percent, according to a
new study.
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