Choosing a cable management system that blends with home moldings
In a perfect world, all buildings had a structured wiring network installed while construction was underway. This way, all cabling could be hidden within walls, floors and ceilings. Unfortunately, most older buildings lack structured wiring and, even newer smart homes …
Everything a Broadband Installer Needs to Know about Streaming Content
Have you ever installed broadband and a homeowner starts to quiz you on topics like streaming content? These days, consumers are turning to the Internet to satisfy all of their entertainment needs. With a dizzying amount of programming choices and …
Fiber-to-the-Home Installations, Made Easy
Fiber to the home continues to grow in popularity, which means more and more Brownfield installations of fiber optic cable are being undertaken. If you’ve ever had to perform one of these installations, you already know some of the pain …
Telco Trends in 2016
High Speed Networks in 2016 Last year saw significant increases in smart homes and devices as the Internet of Things continued to grow. Along with video streaming, this has caused greater demand for high speed broadband and networking. We look …
How Secure is Your Internet?
For millions of commercial and residential customers, their connection to the Internet is an essential service. So it would probably come as quite a shock to discover just how vulnerable their connection is. For most businesses, a loss of service …
Tips for Fiber Installers
As the rate of fiber to the home (FTTH) deployment accelerates broadband installers will need to become familiar with some new requirements. Here are some tips to get you started. Quality To begin with, make sure to use high-quality fiber …
How Point-to-Point and Passive Optical Fiber Networks are Different
Every broadband installer should know about the different types of fiber networks. The two main ones are: point-to-point and passive optical network (PON). Think of how a phone call works and you’ll get the gist of a point-to-point network. There’s …
What is Gigabit Internet and How Do You Get It?
You may have heard the term Gigabit Internet a lot lately, usually in connection with the rollout of fiber broadband across North America. But what is it exactly? Simply put, it means Internet access running at speeds of 1000 megabits …
What is 4K or UHD Video?
Yet another reason to get fiber to the home! Meet 4K – the next video standard, named on its approximately 4000 pixel wide resolution. Sometimes it’s called UHD or ultra-high definition, but that doesn’t mean they are same. Like previous …