Thought Leadership

Data Center Frontier Special Report - The Importance of Digital Customer Experience

In this report, AFL's Jaxon Lang highlights evolving customer expectations in the data center industry, stressing the need for innovation to stay competitive.

[UTC Sponsored Content] Leveraging the Supply Zone to Enable Broadband Deployment

In this UTC sponsored article, AFL explores the advantages of leveraging Fiber to the “x” (FTTx) buildouts for grid modernization and discusses the benefits of ADSS fiber optic technology.

Hyperscale: The AI Tsunami

In the March 2024 Data Center Frontier issue, AFL's Keith Sullivan and Alan Keizer explore how Artificial Intelligence is driving change and creating challenges for data centers.

Hyperscale Rising

In the February 2024 Data Center Frontier issue, AFL's Keith Sullivan and Alan Keizer dive into the evolution of hyperscale technology and explore how it went from an amenity to a necessity.

What is Hyperscale?

In the January 2024 issue of Data Center Frontier, AFL's Keith Sullivan and Alan Keizer explore the world of hyperscale data centers and explain how they are the true champions of the cloud.

Are You Meeting These Critical Fiber Deployment Objectives?

ISE Magazine features insights from David Tanis, Senior Product Manager at AFL, on how service providers can aim to achieve through all stages of fiber deployment and activation.

Fiber-Through-the-Grid (FTT-Grid™): Pioneering the Future of Grid Modernization

AFL article featured in T&D World on how our Fiber-Through-the-Grid (FTT-Grid™) concept offers the flexibility, expandability and future accessibility required to support the grid’s evolving needs.

UTC Sponsored Content: AFL's SOLO HD® Compression System

In this article, appearing in an issue of the UTC Journal, AFL explains the benefits of using the the SOLO HD compression system.

Unleashing the Power

AFL contributes an article to the September 2023 issue of Inside Networks exploring the advances of fiber optic cable technology in data center interconnects (DCI).

BICSI - ICT Today - The Key to Achieving a Connected World

An article by AFL published in ICT Today on colocation fiber infrastructure design and what one's options are for expanding their fiber network.

De punto a punto: líder en México en soluciones de fibra óptica

In this article, Contenidos Editoriales KHE provides a summary of AFL's presentation at ICT Forum México 2023 on Smart Buildings and Edge: Building Blocks for Smart City Infrastructure.

Ask The Expert: A Network for Generations

Josh Simer, market strategy and information manager at AFL, offers his perspective on what this converged access network needs to look like.

Considerations for WhiteSpace Fiber-Optic Network Design

In this article published in the Spring 2023 issue of 7X24 Exchange, AFL details how four key characteristic can be the solution to solve the problems of managing and connecting high fiber counts.

Facing the Challenges of Today’s Modern Data Center: Standing at the Edge

AFL’s thought leadership team contributes to Data Center Frontier with how edge data centers are key to unleashing advanced use cases resulting in new user experiences and new business opportunities.

Data Center Frontier Special Report - Reshaping Network Architecture

Special report from Data Center Frontier based on interviews with AFL subject matter experts and a case study on infrastructure solutions from AFL.

Facing the Challenges of Today’s Modern Data Center: Enabling Deployment and the Workforce

AFL's Kevin Byars contributes to Data Center Frontier's Voices of the Industry column with advice on how to build a modern data center.

Connecting the Future - From Cloud to Edge

On Topic: 5G and Converged Networks

On Topic report from Lightwave examines the drivers for converged networks and AFL's take on how 6G presents opportunities for access network operators.

Facing the Challenges of Today’s Modern Data Center: Know Your Site– From Hyperscale to Edge

AFL's thought leaders contribute to Data Center Frontier's Voice of the Industry column discussing how data center infrastructure is impacted by rising data rates and fiber consumption.