Brightspeed network plans

Brightspeed is looking to blanket more than three million locations with fiber over the coming years once parent Apollo’s acquisition of assets in 20 states from Lumen Technologies closes. But the company is not planning to use your father’s network architecture. The company has enlisted the help of several major vendors, including fiber supplier Corning, cloud platform provider Calix, and construction company Dycom. Most of the nearly 7 million passings Brightspeed expects to inherit from Lumen are currently served with copper, meaning the company has the chance to build a new fiber network its own way. A traditional fiber network uses a setup that relies on a centralized spilt. So, a feeder cable runs out from a central office location to a fiber distribution hub (FDH), and from there multiple distribution cables branch out to different neighborhood terminals where the line is split again to run drop cables to customers’ homes. Technicians will use fiber jumpers to connect the feeder and distribution cables when a customer requests service. Brightspeed’s architecture, however, will eliminate the FDH from the equation. The strategy will save money, eliminate the work usually required to deploy an FDH and allow it to roll out its new network faster and therefore start generating revenue sooner.