New Street Research says Verizon should follow its play for Frontier by courting Lumen, believing such a pair of transactions would help to fuel Verizon's expanding fiber/wireless convergence strategy.
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Editor, host of 'The Divide' podcast
Editor, host of 'The Divide' podcast
"Yes, you can do things like network slicing and all of that, but to have that, you first have to have a network in place, and we don't have that on those farms."
Nearly six years after setting its ambitious 10G target, the cable industry is closing in on its goal of delivering symmetrical 10 Gbps speeds over its hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) networks. After conducting numerous lab and field trials on several continents over the past few years, operators are now beginning to deploy next-gen versions of both DOCSIS and PON technologies to deliver blazing-fast speeds to tens of millions of broadband subscribers.
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