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Light Brigade & JETTING AB Air Blown Fiber Tooling and Equipment Partnership
Light Brigade’s portfolio of instructor led, fiber optic skills training and fiber optic tooling and product distribution, is being...
Sep 1, 2022


First Email Message Sent From Space To Earth
In Honor of National Inventors Month, Light Brigade will be featuring a series of some of the "greatest" inventions that shaped modern...
Aug 8, 2022


Can Your Front Line Talk Fiber Optics?
Optical Time Domain Reflectometer is a mouthful and a crucial component to understand for anyone working in fiber optics. Yet many sales...
Jul 31, 2022


August - National Inventors Month
Some of the greatest inventions throughout history were patented in August, summer's hottest month. In 1998, to commemorate the rich...
Jul 31, 2022


Choose The Right Fiber Network Maintenance & Troubleshooting Tools
When your fiber network encounters an unexpected performance issue, often the first instinct is to replace a connector, jumper, or a...
Jul 28, 2022


Emergency FTTx Restoration Best Practices
Natural disasters, hurricanes, ice storms, fires, earthquakes: Is your Outside Plant (OSP) at risk? Do you have a plan? You can design...
Jul 17, 2022


Reduce Expensive Truck Rolls With Cost Effective Training
Your organization's bottom line is impacted every time skilled technicians are dispatched into the field. Truck rolls for new...
Jul 14, 2022


Fiber Optics Connecting A Wireless World
The word antenna may bring to mind various mental images or memories depending on your age. You may envision the tall radio and TV...
Jul 10, 2022


Fiber Optics - Staying Connected
I attended the Broadband Communities Conference in Houston, TX last month. It was great to see colleagues live and in person and to learn...
Mar 27, 2022


Fiber Optics - OTDR Test Equipment
Optical time domain reflectometers (OTDRs) are critical instruments for evaluating optical fiber spans. Like any technology, they are not...
Jan 24, 2022


Light Brigade Announces Collaboration with Sumitomo Electric Lightwave
A robust alliance that empowers students to produce the highest caliber of work. (Kent, WA) –Jan 6, 2022 - Light Brigade, the global...
Jan 6, 2022


Hiring & Managing Fiber Contractors For A Successful Project
All communications networks experience a life cycle. They are planned, designed, procured, installed, provisioned, and maintained....
Dec 28, 2021


Light Brigade Releases Re-Engineered Fiber Optics 1-2-3 Course
(Kent, WA) – Oct. 26, 2021 - Light Brigade the leader in fiber optic skills training will debut their re-engineered Fiber Optics 1-2-3...
Oct 25, 2021


The Future Is Bright, Fiber Optic Bright!
Back in the early 00’s when I was installing 3G networks in the UK, I can remember buying and using for the first time a Motorola H3G...
Aug 1, 2021


Fiber To The North Pole
Well, not exactly to the North Pole, but close! 947 miles from the pole, to be precise. In the summer of 1991, I was Project Manager for...
Jul 30, 2021


We Have Moved
Teamwork makes the dream work. This was true in early May when Team Light Brigade packed, unloaded, and powered up in anticipation of...
Jul 20, 2021


Chicago Deep - Installing Fiber 40 Feet Below The Streets of Chicago
Most underground terrestrial fiber optic cable infrastructure is only several feet below grade. However, there is one network in...
Jun 6, 2021


The Growing Trend to High Fiber Count Cables?
Deployments of 1,728 and 3,456 fiber cables are growing rapidly? They are used in everything from Hyperscale data centers to long-haul...
Mar 31, 2021


The first successful automatically switched rotary dial phone network
The inventor, Almon Brown Strowger was motivated because his undertaker business was losing clients to a competitor whose telephone...
Mar 21, 2021


Hands-on Training Increases Retention & Compresenshion
Training that provides a significant amount of learn-by-doing boosts a student's retention of information by 10-fold. With hands-on...
Mar 3, 2021
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