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The Fiber Broadband Association and its members offer learning opportunities through webinars, which are open to the public unless otherwise specified. If you are interested in presenting a webinar, please click here.
Using Connected RFID Marking to Simplify Fiber Infrastructure Management
April 26th, 2 PM EST
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Marking, mapping, and locating fiber infrastructure can be challenging and costly. This webinar highlights how a connected RFID marking solution can be deployed to track cable lines and critical asset points in the field while providing easy and rapid integration into a customer’s GIS. Attend this presentation to experience tangible use cases where an easy to use field app, coupled with RFID enabled markers are transforming the future of underground asset management.
Key takeaways:
How to apply a connected RFID marking solution to ease underground asset challenges
What an intuitive mobile app can do to optimize field asset locating
How to use mixed marking to enhance fiber infrastructure marking
Presenter: Thomas Tym
Senior Technical Consultant, Berntsen International, Inc.
Prior to being a Senior Technical Sales Consultant at Berntsen International, Thomas spent 29 years at a WI civil engineering firm where he initiated the company’s GIS division in 1989. From parcel mapping and database design, to GIS application development and the implementation of asset management solutions for municipal clients, Thomas’s surveying, engineering design, and technical skills helped the company become a leader in GIS and Asset Management services. At Berntsen, Thomas manages customer accounts and promotes the company’s connected infrastructure asset management solution, InfraMarker.
About Berntsen: Madison, Wisconsin-based Berntsen International Inc. provides innovative marking products and solutions to the utility, survey and construction industries. Founded in 1972, Berntsen’s high-quality product line of 1,000 markers can be found in more than 100 countries. Berntsen’s patented InfraMarker solution received the Geospatial World Excellence Award for Technology Innovation in 2017 and the RFID Journal Award for Best Use of RFID to Enhance a Product or Service. For more information, visit www.BerntsenInternational.com.
The Impact of 5G on Fiber Requirements
May 10th, 2 PM EST
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This webinar will review what 5G network deployments might look like, in addition to the key variables to consider in their design. We will discuss the factors which have the largest impact on the cost of a deployment and examine how much fiber is required to implement a future-proof 5G deployment.
Hypothetical 5G deployment scenarios (5G fixed vs. 5G mobility, Aerial vs. buried, fiber lean vs. fiber rich, etc.) will be described and we will review key factors impacting the fiber needs for 5G radios (CPRI vs Ethernet, fronthaul vs. mid-haul vs. backhaul, future impact of massive MIMO)
Presented by Members of the Fiber Broadband Association Technology Committee:
Kevin Wynne, Manager, Americas, Comsof
Joe Jensen, Americas FTTH Market Development Manager, Corning Cable Systems
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We offer members a variety of learning opportunities through our webinar series, which are open to the public unless otherwise specified. If you are interested in presenting a webinar, contact Ancilla Brady at abrady@fiberbroadband.org.
Gimme Fiber Day
On November 4th we celebrate Gimme Fiber Day to showcase how fiber has positively impacted communities across the world and what policymakers around the globe can do to help advance the roll-out and take-up of fiber optics. The date is the birthday of Professor Charles Kao.
