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[VIDEO] KGPCo Point of View, Episode 1: Delivering Broadband for All
On this episode of Point of View, Chad Locke, AVP of KGPCo's Utilities market discusses how Electric Cooperatives have a unique opportunity to deploy fiber broadband in rural communities and how KGPCo is helping deliver. ...Watch Now
[PRESS RELEASE] Circet and KGPCo to Join Forces to Create a Global Leader in Communications Network Services
Circet, Europe’s largest communications network services provider, backed by its management team and Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), a global alternative asset manager, and KGPCo, the leading communications infrastructure services and product supply chain provider in the United States, announced today that the companies have agreed to join forces. ...Read More
[ARTICLE] KGPCo’s COW and COLT Site Program Delivers Wireless Service in Unique Circumstances
From disaster restoration efforts to large sporting events and festivals, COWs/COLTs ensure continuity of service for cellular consumers. ...Read More
[CASE STUDY] Helping Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative Step Into the Fiber Broadband Market
KGPCo partnered with Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative in South Central Texas, enabling them to follow their core mission and become a fiber-based broadband service provider. ...Read Case Study
[ARTICLE] Actual Results for Smoothly Delivering the Network of the Future
In a study by KGPCo we confirm that a disaggregated, cloud-native network infrastructure can be simpler, faster and more cost-effective to operate than the integrated, monolithic networks that communications and cloud providers still rely on. ...See the Study Results
[PRESS RELEASE] Covington Electric Selects FiberRise Utility Grade Broadband™ Architecture for Buzz Broadband
Covington Electric Cooperative (CEC) has selected FiberRise Utility Grade Broadband™ as the architecture and operations model for its broadband subsidiary Buzz Broadband. KGPCo supported the project with material management solutions. ...Read Press Release
[ARTICLE] Custom Cloud Solutions and Savings: How KGPCo’s White Box Solution Delivers Both
KGPCo’s White Box solution can help deliver first-class experiences to end users while reducing Service Provider equipment expenditures. Hear all about this core KGPCo solution from Chief Strategy Officer, Peter Wraight. ...Read More
[ARTICLE] A New Deployment Mindset: Small Cells
In our latest article on our AWTI solution we addresses the challenges present in small cell deployments and describe how the AWTI application delivers better managed deployments....Read More
[PRESS RELEASE] Tombigbee Electric Cooperative Leverages Ribbon and KGPCo IP Optical Solutions to Bring Broadband Access to Rural Customers
Member-owned utility provider uses RDOF and CARES Act grants to upgrade its network and help bridge the digital divide by offering high speed internet access to all customers. ...Read Press Release
[ARTICLE] Elements of a Successful Material and Supply Chain Management Program: 6 Part Series
A supply chain is a strategic asset that should continually evolve to meet the demands and challenges of your business and the industry. In this series we explain the six tactical elements that make up a successful program. ...Read More
[ARTICLE] How the AWTI Process Can Accelerate Your Small Cell Deployment
Small cell deployments are a big part of 5G networks new deployments. Although the deployment processes of small cells and macro cells have some stages in common, there are also some foreseeable differences. ...Read More
[ARTICLE] Macro Cell Deployment: The AWTI Advantage
Macro cells are a major component of the new network deployments in the United States. With over 200,000 macro cells already in place, thousands of additional macro cells are projected to be built every year for the foreseeable future....Read More
[ARTICLE] Pandemic Drives the Start of an Unlikely Operation
In the early months of 2020, the Coronavirus arrived in the U.S. and by early March its intensity escalated rapidly, becoming a very serious concern around the country....Read More
[ARTICLE] IP Infusion Introduces Open SD-Edge Platform Powered by DANOS-Vyatta Edition, Promoted by AT&T
The Universal Customer Premise Equipment (uCPE) platform enables Service Providers to deliver a variety of software-defined applications in the cloud with simplicity. ...Read More
Opening up to Network Disaggregation with DriveNets and KGPCo
In a survey conducted by Heavy Reading this month, nearly half of CSPs predict their companies will radically change their IP Networks in the next three years. ...Read More
SDN Enabling Network Automation
New user platforms, evolving bandwidth-gobbling applications and insatiable customer demands continue to put greater pressure on legacy network technology, hence driving the need for service providers to respond quicker than ever to an increasingly dynamic environment. Read More...
The Race for Resources
How many times have you heard the phrase: “Our people are our greatest asset.”? How many companies do you know or have previously worked for, have had these words published in their employee handbooks, training manuals, or HR policies? Do employers really stand behind this statement? Read More...
Is Your Network Transformation 5G Ready?
Call it a sprint, call it a marathon, but the race to deploy 5G is certainly an interesting one. There isn’t a well-defined ‘right approach’, nor is the journey a straight path, rather a survival-of-the-fittest scenario, befit of Darwinian proportions, is what we will most likely get to see. Read More...
Disaggregation in Real Life
Despite the hype around open networking and digital transformation, the market can intimidate even the most fearless. There is progress and there are benefits to accelerate innovation through the power of open network architectures, yet at the same time operationalizing open networking and adoption are predictably lagging. Read More...
2017 ICT Visionaries Year-End Insights
The promise of 5G will be realized only with a significantly expanded fiber network. This is especially true in rural areas. We need reforms to state and federal regulations that incent companies to invest in deep fiber. Read More...