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It’s always mergers and acquisitions season in the world of fiber. Last month, Lightower and Crown Castle added thousands of miles of fiber in billion-dollar acquisitions. But Charter’s acquisition of Time Warner Cable just dwarfed those figures. Luckily, FiberLocator is always prepared for the next $56.7-billion acquisition – take a peek at our process. Pending […]

In case you haven’t heard, commercial bandwidth availability is on the rise. According to Vertical Systems Group, business fiber penetration climbed from 10.9% in 2004 to 42.5% in 2014. For FiberLocator, that means we’re always keeping our eyes out for new lit buildings and carrier records. Thanks to the providers we work with and our […]

The Paradigm Shift Tower companies and wireless providers are changing course on site and network planning, moving away from selecting the site first and then identifying fiber within close proximity. In tower placement, the distance between one location and another may not seem like much on a map — but the fiber availability (and costs) could be drastically different. […]

Companies are turning to Hybrid IT deployments to reduce costs, gain scalability and boost performance. This is having a transformative effect on IT, changing it from a giant, dark room filled with locked-in-place servers to an agile business weapon. These benefits are all made possible with the power of fiber connectivity, which is quickly growing […]

As business intelligence continues to evolve, it’s easy for enterprises to be concerned with organizing the vast amount of data they have to make business decisions. However, by getting lost in the volume of the data, CIOs, IT managers and network planners risk missing out on the substance, with the data used to make business […]

The industry has seen a flurry of activity in the past six months – and FiberLocator is no exception. NEF is making FiberLocator even better by making sizable investments in the product, development, user experience, and the support and professional services teams. In fact, you’ve recently gotten a note from Jaime Mahoney introducing herself and letting you […]

Big Ideas, Solutions & Outcomes Come Together at the 2015 Channel Partners Conference We’ll be at Booth #324 if you want to come by and meet us! The 2015 Channel Partners Conference and Expo will be held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV, March 16-18, providing the indirect channel an opportunity to get the […]