ISE Magazine, January 2019
ISE ICT SOLUTIONS EDUCATION 26 PREDICTIONS What I do expect more demand for the higher speed DSL services Satisfying this demand with better use of the existing copper infrastructure Using bonded and vectoring with minor adds to the OSP What I dont expect huge and expensive overbuilds of fiber and PON Bill Bouman Sr Field Service Tech Network Services TDS Telecom I expect realistic solutions for SDN and automation within the small rural service providers networks In turn delivering services with greater ease and speed of delivery for the consumer I do not expect the consumers need for speed to slow This need will drive service providers to build the most reliable speedy and transparent networks possible Ease of use is a must We must be more innovative over our competition We live in a Amazon world and can not continue with the old customer service models Consumers want to order service over Facebook messenger and not wait in a 10 minute phone queue Lee Rutherford Network Operations Assistant Manager Horizon I expect the demand for fiber from small businesses to grow exponentially They are demanding higher and higher speeds to run their businesses whether in a urban suburban or even rural setting I dont expect my cable bill will get smaller Which is why I expect more people to move toward streaming services Patricia Moore Senior Engineer CenturyLink We are a small Cooperative in Northern New Mexico and we continue to see the demand growing for bandwidth In 2019 I see us having to complete a bandwidth upgrade sooner than we anticipated Networks are jumping from 10G to 40G and 100G networks I have also seen locations at 400G 5G is huge and will also require us as providers to deliver bandwidth and at multiple locations It is going to be very difficult and expensive for small ISPs I dont see a lot of funding coming down to help connect residential customers in rural areas It is very expensive we are having trouble keeping up with the bandwidth requirements for school IPTV distance learning telemedicine etc We need to find a way to help continue to bring down costs Jose Lovato Fiber Optic Systems Engineer Manager Kit Carson Internet
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