Tag: RDOF
May 5, 2021
Why the Time to Futureproof your Network is Now
By Dan Whalen, ATX President & CEO | Regrettable spend, roughly defined as technology investments with short lifespans or absorbing unnecessary operational costs to retread the same ground, keeps cable execs and engineers up at night as much as anything else. Some potential bad news for cable operators is that they may be losing more [...]
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April 28, 2021
ATX Networks Unveils Next-Gen Digital Optical Amplifier for Long-Reach Deployments
New field-hardened EDFA platform empowers operators to pursue publicly-funded broadband initiatives “Our new digital optical amplifier platform can play a big role in enabling service providers to affordably and economically deliver broadband to remote regions.” SAN DIEGO, April 28, 2021 – ATX Networks, a global leader in broadband access and media distribution solutions, introduced the [...]
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March 4, 2021
The Digital Divide is Wider (and Deeper) than you Think
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | The Digital Divide and efforts to overcome the disparity in broadband services available to urban and rural communities through government subsidies have been much in the news recently. Just a few weeks ago, ATX’s CEO Dan Whalen penned a blog post highlighting the importance of the Rural Digital [...]
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January 15, 2021
RDOF and the Dawning of Smart Farming
By Dan Whalen, ATX President & CEO | The broadband industry exited arguably its craziest year with what sure feels like some very promising momentum toward closing the digital divide. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in December unveiled the winning bidders in phase 1 of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) reverse auction, a process [...]
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