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ISP Summit 2020: How operators must adapt quickly to deploy to the next gen broadband home

By Lynn Greiner TORONTO – Especially in today's world, everyone needs fast, reliable Internet, which increasingly includes fast, reliable Wi-Fi At this week's tenth annual ISP Summit, a panel composed of a customer, an ISP, and a creator of home Wi-Fi equipment looked at the issues and how they're being addressed from their points of view. And, said panel moderator Jeff McInnis, president of Gentek Marketing, with improved standards such as DOCSIS 3.1 around the corner, for many customers that will mean symmetrical multi-gig fibre access and emerging technologies like Wi-Fi 6. Panelists Erik Ackner, president, Mercku Europe; Emily Ferreira,...