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5 days ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
NASHVILLE—While middle-mile networks play a crucial role in delivering fast, affordable, and equitable broadband access to communities across North America, a new study by the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) notes that rural areas face a significant shortage of middle-mile infrastructure, which drives up the cost of internet access. A middle-mile network is defined as a network that connects two or more networks.
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5 days ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
In Lightwave’s day two daily podcast for Fiber Connect 2025, we're breaking down the key announcements, presentations, and conversations at the Nashville show.
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5 days ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
NASHVILLE—During this week’s Fiber Connect show, several Fiber Broadband Association members showcased new product developments. These products highlighted various aspects of fiber broadband deployments, MDU broadband, PON, network powering, and terminals. Fiber terminalsGiven the various deployment scenarios service providers are implementing with their fiber broadband builds, the need for flexible terminals is crucial. One vendor that’s responding to that call is Clearfield.
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6 days ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
In the first episode Lightwave’s daily podcast for Fiber Connect 2025, we're breaking down the key announcements, presentations, and conversations at the Nashville show.
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6 days ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
AT&T remains the dominant service provider with fiber-lit buildings, reflecting the service provider’s gain in new business fiber installations. The service provider has retained the #1 position on Vertical Systems Group’s U.S. Business Fiber LEADERBOARD for a ninth consecutive year. AT&T’s standing was reflected in its first-quarter results.
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1 week ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
Lumen looks to fulfill its business-centric services dream by selling its FTTH business to AT&T. Meanwhile, Dycom sees opportunities in service provider consolidation, and Altice USA sets an MDU broadband plan. Sean Buckley, editor in chief of Lightwave, breaks it down in this new Friday Five video.
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1 week ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
A group of broadband-related industry advocacy groups is calling on the Trump administration to lift the delay in administering funds from the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.
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1 week ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
Brightspeed, Comcast, Fidium, GTA, GoNetspeed, Metronet, Texas, RightFiber and United Communications are all expanding broadband in various communities through a mix of venture capital and state funding sources. Brightspeed lights 10K Beaufort, South Carolina, with fiber internet serviceBrightspeed has connected 10,000 homes and businesses in and around the city of Beaufort, with more locations coming online every day.
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1 week ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
FTTH, data center rampingWhile the outcome of the new deals won’t be clear until these deals close next year, Dycom remains bullish about fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and data center network builds. During the recent quarter, several service providers, including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen, all experienced an increase in FTTH subscribers and locations. Both AT&T and Verizon will scale their fiber reach further when they complete their acquisitions of Lumen’s fiber business and Frontier.
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1 week ago | 
lightwaveonline.com | Sean Buckley
FiberLight has relocated its corporate headquarters to the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex, positioning it to capitalize on the explosive growth of data center operations and defining a new era for Texas as a key player in the accelerating demand for AI infrastructure.
