01 / Broadband connectivity
From technology choice to deployment.
Fiber, fixed wireless access (FWA), satellite and cable: understand the network options, the companies developing them and the conditions for putting them to work.
What should we deploy, where and under what conditions?
Network architecture, provider and equipment choices, deployment constraints, service requirements and the path from a technical proposition to an operating network.
Technology watch includes 50G PON, WiFi 7 and LEO satellite. Assess each against a specific place, use case and verified deployment evidence. Future-facing questions such as 6G belong in a separate research and scenario track, not an assumption of broad deployment.
Read the deployment evidence guide ↗A DEFINED FIRST ENGAGEMENT
Connectivity options review
Bring the service area, demand assumptions, existing infrastructure and the decision you need to make. Community contract renewal is one useful application of this broader practice.
Working assets
A requirements brief, comparable technology/provider options, deployment dependencies and a decision memo with evidence gaps made explicit.
A question that crosses the boundaries?
Work across the three Group practices, or see how Labs approaches assumptions that need to be taken apart.
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