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Happy holidays to you and yours from the FiberLocator team. Enjoy the spirit of the season with family and friends – and do your best to put your work away! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and we’ll be taking a break to enjoy it. Here’s our holiday schedule: Christmas Eve – Thursday, […]

What never sleeps, is usually buried deep under the ground and is always ready to enter your abode if you give it a chance? If you answered “zombies”, you’re ready for Halloween. If you answered “fiber”, then you’re ready for some map updates. Luckily, we have treats for both groups. Our recent FiberLocator map updates […]

There’s an increasingly popular trend in the small cell and wireless backhaul market, one that Zayo continues to benefit from – the use of dark fiber in macrocell deployments. In fact, dark fiber has made up most of the company’s sales in the mobile backhaul sector. Zayo isn’t the only carrier leveraging dark fiber in the […]

Exciting news! Now, it’s easier than ever for you to research fiber routes and on-net buildings online. With this release of FiberLocator 2.0, our users will have access to a new interface, improved security, and more output features – all contributing to a simpler, more intuitive workflow. Our awesome and responsive users chimed in with […]

At FiberLocator, we’re constantly making strides to ensure our data sets are growing and continually updated, and we carry that same commitment to innovation to our online platform and API. FiberLocator is about to be updated with more features, increased security and an easier-to-use interface. We expect to release the updated platform in September, and […]

It appears carriers and fiber providers may have the ability to lay fiber over long distances without repeaters in the future. This innovation should translate into lower implementation costs, and the savings could spill over to users. And it’s all thanks to researchers from the University of California, San Diego. Analysts from this academic think […]

The Edmonton Oilers’s selection of Connor McDavid with the number one overall pick in the NHL Draft was just bound to happen. He’s the “chosen one,” as the hockey media world proclaims. But while he’s the obvious choice, could Jack Eichel be the better selection? Eichel’s a generational talent too, but he just doesn’t get […]