Dark Fiber & U.S. Stimulus - How New Fiber Drives Broadband VoIP

Everyone in telecom is a buzz about Broadband Technologies Opportunity Program.

 

But exactly how will wide-scale broadband deployment spur the VoIP industry’s growth over the next five years?

 

Allied Fiber CEO Hunter Newby (News - Alert) - whose Manhattan-based company is working to pave the way for wide broadband access, wireless backhaul and lower latency through next-generation long haul dark fiber construction - sheds some light on this question at his ITEXPO West 2009 panel, “How New Fiber Drives Broadband VoIP,” on Tuesday, at 12:45 p.m.

 

Newby will give ITEXPO (News - Alert)-goers an overview of the current status of the ARRA BTOP, and valuable insight on the opportunities that come from wide-scale broadband deployment.

 

“By putting high-count dark fiber in place with integrated cell towers and colocation facilities between undersea cable landing stations touching the Atlantic, Pacific and Caribbean we will make this country a much smaller place from a network-geography perspective,” Newby told TMC (News - Alert) President Rich Tehrani in a pre-show interview. “Buyers will very easily be able to get on, around and out to where they need to go in a cost effective and predictable manner much like they do in parts of Asia and Western Europe.”

 

Newby will be joined by John R. Savageau, chief technology officer for Pacific-Tier Communications, and Eric Bender, president of Wilshire Connection LLC., for the follow-up session “Fiber & Wireless Backhaul – Two Technologies That Actually Feed Each Other” immediately afterward.

Representatives from fiber/wireless carriers and VoIP carriers to VoIP/transport hardware vendors will benefit from both sessions.

 

According to Newby, “wireless and fiber are actually complimentary and not polar opposites as many have believed, or were made to believe.”