Lightwave
From connectivity to the thinking economy
The Fiber Broadband Association celebrated its 25th anniversary at Fiber Connect 2026 in Orlando, highlighting numerous milestones. In 2025, the fiber broadband industry passed 11.8 million homes, breaking 2024’s record, and it is on pace to beat that again this year. FBA research estimates that the total U.S.
Comcast Smart Solutions equips Tucker's (GA) trail system, with real time analytics
Comcast Smart Solutions is collaborating with the City of Tucker (GA), a suburb of Atlanta, to upgrade the city’s public trail and park system's lighting infrastructure with a solution designed to enhance visibility and connectivity.
Fiber’s expanding sensing opportunities
As fiber continues to proliferate throughout the nation through federal and private investment, new and exciting opportunities to utilize it are opening beyond delivering high-speed, low-latency broadband to unserved and underserved areas of the country. Technologies using fiber as a sensor have been around for decades, but the growth of fiber deployments worldwide is opening up new applications in everything from monitoring cicadas to locating new energy sources. Fiber optic sensing measures changes in an optical fiber's naturally occurring light scattering.