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Fiber to your Hometown: Broadband as the Fourth Utility.

VETRO FiberMap has participated as an exhibitor at the Broadband Communities Summit for the past five years. This year’s topics were heavily focused on open-access municipal fiber network projects, which drew a crowd of around 1,200 conference attendees.

Fiber industry collaboration, investment, and new technology in preparation for edge computing, 5G deployment and fiber densification.

The team at VETRO FiberMap™ is pleased to announce that they will be attending the upcoming Fiber for the New Economy conference held October 18-20 in Minneapolis, MN at the Radisson Blu Downtown! Fiber for the New Economy is part of the Economic Development Conference Series and brings together a wide variety of professionals including government officials, economic development professionals, investors, network operators, business leaders, financial institutions, community anchor institutions, electrical cooperatives, and broadband champions! This event will showcase representatives from different aspects of the fiber community and VETRO FiberMap™ will be heading up booth 16 for demos!

Is Google Earth for Fiber Mapping a blessing or curse? Over the past 15 years of doing GIS business in telco we have seen a major shift off of desktop GIS tools and onto Google Earth. Google bought and launched the Google Earth platform we all now know in 2005, leveraging technology and the Keyhole Markup Language (KML) originally created by Keyhole (fun fact, a CIA funded startup). It became wildly popular for a number of reasons - it’s easy, it’s loaded with imagery and data, it’s fun, it’s gorgeous, it’s flexible, and it’s free!!

Every now and then I find the time to read those copies of The Economist magazine that stack up on my dining room table (yes, I do still read print because I find it is the most convenient way to read magazine articles while traveling). My interest was piqued by the title on the cover of the March 12th edition ”The Future of Computing.” Because I am in the computing business, I decided I should see what my future holds. It turns out the primary question the authors were trying to answer was what the computing world will look like as the pace of computer hardware advancements slow or level off.