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Category: Wireless
Verizon 5G: Existential Business Case
The priority of Verizon Wireless’ 5G strategy has never been based on the false, industry-wide narrative of offering its subscribers any unique applications broadly, but…
Crown Castle: Cornering Synergy Combos
Although still considered a REIT play by the investment community, Crown Castle made a bold change in its corporate strategy to become a full-service provider,…
Rockley Headship Legacy: SiPh Hangover
Rockley Photonics’ founder and CEO, Andrew Rickman, could never seem to escape dealing with Silicon Photonics (SiPh) throughout his ventures over the years, paradoxically, representing…
Zayo Had Sought to “Move Cups Around”
In fibeReality’s opinion, a kind of “shell game” seems to be conspicuously occurring at times in the telecommunications market, without always the precisely nefarious connotations…
Google Fiber Won’t Ever Confess Motives
“It’s clear that Google Fiber’s presence in Louisville led other providers to step up and increase investment in Louisville, and that was good news for…
Verizon’s 5G Fronthaul Fiber Sustainability
Proficient, long-time networking engineers and planners comprehend that designing architectures can be really tough, and they realize the main reason Verizon wants to do home-runs…
OFC 2019: Nine Additional Odds and Ends
Before getting to the subject of this article, I need to point out the most significant and outstanding event at OFC: Mitch Fields at the…
CenturyLink/Zayo: Verizon’s Forewarning
While Verizon’s first-mover position with 5G wireless in the US will offer many advantages, including a locality just simply wanting to avoid the negative aesthetics…
Ciena and Ericsson: The Virtualized Merger
The “Nortelization” process at Ciena started several years before the supplier actually bought Nortel Networks’ assets. Former Nortel executives slowly worked their way into the…
