AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Broadband. Is Your Fiber Network Ready?
It’s not quite Abby Anderson or Danny and Sandy but AI and Fiber are having a togetherness moment. Like video before it, AI applications are driving a need for increased internet speed and capacity for which fiber is uniquely suited. Internet users on fiber networks...
Dumb Pipe? Agentic AI Operations Are Making Broadband Networks Smarter Than Ever
Who’s calling broadband “dumb pipe” now? Not two decades after the phrase conjured up images of networks in dunce caps, broadband infrastructure is at the top of the class. As operators and their vendor partners are harnessing the power of AI, a new category of...
Helping Rouzbeh’s Baby Take More Giant Strides
When you’re blazing new trails, it can be enlightening to speak with someone who has trod a similar path. So my recent chat with Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, whose innovation of the cable modem catapulted cable from entertainment to communications, was timely – especially...
Au revoir, AOL dial-up. We’re off to power the broadband future
When AOL dial-up service is discontinued next Tuesday, the date couldn’t be more fitting. As the beeps, the boops, and the screeches of modems connecting to the Internet are silenced for the last time September 30, many of the biggest names in telecommunications will...