Executive Summary: Building a SAFER Access Network
In this Executive Summary, AFL's Josh Simer explains challenges and opportunities in network operations today and discussed ways to install and maintain a SAFE fiber network.
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Converged Access Network
AFL’s Converged Access Network solution helps network operators build expandable, flexible and accessible networks for 5G/Wireless Fronthaul/Backhaul; Fiber-to-the-Home/Business; Multiple Dwelling Units/Multiple Tenant Units (MXU); campuses and venues; enterprise; and central office.
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Converged Access Network Solutions & Interactive Map
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Building for Generations: The SAFER Approach to Fiber Infrastructure
This T&D World article from October 2024 features insights from AFL's Josh Simer on the importance of building fiber networks that last for generations.
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5 Characteristics of a SAFER Access Network [Infographic]
This infographic shows the five key characteristics of AFL's SAFER™ Access Network: Sustainability, Accessibility, Flexibility, Expandability and Reliability.
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QuickChat with AFL at the BTR Summit: A SAFE Network For Generations
In this QuickChat session from the 2023 BTR Summit, AFL's Josh Simer chats with Stephen Hardy of BTR about how operators can create SAFE networks as the demand for sustainable practices rises.
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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.
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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.
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Preparing for the 6G and “Extreme Edge” Future
In this blog, Josh Simer, AFL Market Strategy and Innovation Manager for Service Providers, explains how wireline operators can build access networks today which will be able to handle the 6G future.
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6G or not 6G? That is the question.
Josh Simer, AFL Market Strategy and Innovation Manager for Service Providers, approaches the subject of 6G and its future requirements and goals.
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(Re) Introducing the Generations Blog!
AFL is renaming its “5G Blog” series to the “Generations Blog.” The reason for the change and what it means for access network technology will be explained in this first entry.
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The Collision of Cloud and the Edge
To understand why C-RAN and Edge Computing are happening, we need to look at the drivers of each, and when we do, we’ll see there isn’t necessarily an inevitable “collision.”
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Interactive Map for 5G/Wireless Access Network
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Interactive Map for Campus/Venue Networks
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Utility FTTA/FWA and Small Cell Solutions
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The Collision of Cloud and the Edge, Part 2: Preparing for Impact
Josh Simer, AFL Market Manager for Service Providers and MSOs, outlines a likely-to-be common scenario for network operators when developing C-RAN and Edge data centers.
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Black Swans and Fiber Networks
AFL solutions for building a service provider network with expandability, flexibility and accessibility to help combat black swan events, like COVID-19.
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Optical Fiber is the Key to Future-Proof Networks
AFL's Seán Adam explains how optical fiber is key to ensuring "future-proof networks," a crucial element in maintaining this growing rate of connectivity.
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5G Fronthaul Backhaul Brochure
Explore this brochure to see how AFL’s fiber and equipment solutions can help you build an expandable, flexible and accessible network in a range of application areas.
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Achieving a Connected World
In this blog, AFL discusses what it will take to Achieve a Connected World, including a skilled workforce and a network that has flexibility, accessibility and expandability.
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Webinar Recording: Network Convergence for Everyone
AFL webinar that covers why network convergence is a critically important concept for all network operators and what a converged access network looks like.
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Let There be Light
Seán Adam, AFL's VP of market strategy & innovation, kicks off a new 5G blog series that will focus on the emerging 5G ecosystem and infrastructure elements needed to transition to 5G.
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The Economic Drivers of 5G
Josh Simer, AFL's Service Provider Market Manager, continues the 5G discussion by reviewing the economic drivers of 5G.
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