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Full-Fiber MDU: Enabling the Lifestyle Better Broadband Provides

Bandwidth demand is exploding across all of society and multi-dwelling unit (MDU) environments are no exception. In the last year, global lockdowns that resulted in the expansion of distance education, work-from-home, and more online entertainment consumption increased the demands on broadband networks everywhere.

The business case for full-fiber MDU strengthened overnight as communications service providers (CSPs) needed to access these immense upswings in aggregate bandwidth, bandwidth-intensive services and applications demand. Even as the pandemic recedes, many organizations have made the strategic commitment to retain and augment a distributed WFH workforce. As a result, we see a great opportunity for CSPs to expand business relations with property owners to deliver the entire economic benefits of full-fiber MDU services to customers.

Our newest white paper, Full-Fiber MDU: Enabling the Lifestyle Better Broadband Provides — done in partnership with Clearfield — offers a look into how full-fiber broadband can change building infrastructure focusing on how these changes can improve the overall value of the MDU property.

In this report you’ll learn:

  • The current state of the full-fiber marketplace
  • Why full-fiber environments are necessary in the post-pandemic world
  • An exploration into the current MDU opportunities
  • Full-fiber MDU use cases

We are witnessing a major shift in broadband access across the globe as CSPs improve their service offerings. Property managers need to take note of the available offerings. Fiber is already key for assuring building connectivity and as a result extending fiber to all units is the most elegant, simple, and ultimately cost-effective method for delivering the differentiated broadband service experience in the WFH and digital experience era. For a complete dive into the full-fiber MDU environment, download your copy of Full-Fiber MDU: Enabling the Lifestyle Better Broadband Provides today.

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Daniel is the CEO of The Futurum Group. Living his life at the intersection of people and technology, Daniel works with the world’s largest technology brands exploring Digital Transformation and how it is influencing the enterprise.

From the leading edge of AI to global technology policy, Daniel makes the connections between business, people and tech that are required for companies to benefit most from their technology investments. Daniel is a top 5 globally ranked industry analyst and his ideas are regularly cited or shared in television appearances by CNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and hundreds of other sites around the world.

A 7x Best-Selling Author including his most recent book “Human/Machine.” Daniel is also a Forbes and MarketWatch (Dow Jones) contributor.

An MBA and Former Graduate Adjunct Faculty, Daniel is an Austin Texas transplant after 40 years in Chicago. His speaking takes him around the world each year as he shares his vision of the role technology will play in our future.

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