ISE Magazine, August 2018

4 CONTENTS FEATURES 14 ISE EXPO 2018 Keynote Interview With Jack Waters CTO and President of Fiber Solutions Zayo Group Attend his interactive keynote on Wednesday August 15 2018 Get a sneak peek into the issues Jack feels are critical to the ICT industry Then brainstorm some questions of your own for the audience questions via text segment of the presentation Register today at www iseexpo com 14 ICT SOLUTIONS EDUCATION EXPO 35 ISE EXPO 2018 Show Issue Make your time onsite efficient and valuable with this handy dandy guide to everything at ISE EXPO 2018 20 Insider Insights With Ken Paker CTO and SVP of Information and Network Technologies TDS Telecom A Q A With One of Our ISE EXPO 2018 Tech Talk Presenters By Sharon Vollman ISE Before you see him as a Keynote Tech Talk presenter get a behind the scenes look at TDS Telecoms Ken Paker and what he thinks is important to our industry 22 Can PoE Take the Heat 4 Pair PoE and Your Cabling Plant By Mark Mullins Your customers are demanding higher levels of Power over Ethernet PoE Heres what you need to know about its heat tolerance 32 Danger Zones 5 American Cities Need Major Network Upgrades By Issa Asad Which 5 cities need serious upgrades in their wireless infrastructure 102 Its Time for a Switch Solving Challenges of Class 5 Switch Replacement By Scott McIsaac and Tod Brinkerhoff Its time to say goodbye to your trusted Class 5 Switches Forget the tears Instead learn how to leverage existing Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier NGDLC systems 106 Same Ol Same Ol How to Resolve 5 Recurring Problems By Lee Kellett Why do certain issues keep occurring in the field and how can we resolve them 110 The Copper Bridge to a Multigigabit Future Providers Like Frontier Embrace G fast By Zsolt Adamy Learn why the newest technological updates for G fast will help it move toward G mgfast 114 Windstream Plays the Perfect Round A Hybrid Event Combining Education and Golfing for Charity By Jennifer Boone and Sharon Vollman ISE When Windstream thinks education they also act on giving back Enjoy this photo essay of the Windstream Spring Live TechSeries Event I S E I C T S O L U T I O N S E D U C AT I O N IN EVERY ISSUE 8 Editors Note Janice Oliva 10 OSP Expert Don McCarty 132 Tools 134 Advertiser Index Classified 136 Human Network Online Bonus WEB EXCLUSIVE @ www isemag com Network Maintenance Corner Enjoying Thunderstorms Again Reflections From the Field By Vernon May Reflections from a veteran telecom technician CORRECTION The Fiber Expert column Pay Now or Pay Later in the July 2018 issue in the WDM Begins section on page 16 had this paragraph with an incorrect final sentence Later in the new millennium another version of WDM called coarse WDM CWDM allowed for up to 18 channels Each had 20 nanometer channels specified by the ITU T G 694 standard However 5 of these channels fell into the high water peak window centered around 1483 nm The correct final sentence is However 5 of these channels fell into the high water peak window centered around 1383 nm