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Light Brigade is excited to announce that this will be its first year exhibiting and presenting at the BICSI Winter Conference held in...

Kent, WA - November 10, 2022 - Light Brigade, the longest-established fiber optic training company in the United States, continues...

Without fiber, many of the audio and streaming services we take for granted would be impossible. Gimme Fiber Day is held annually on...

Light Brigade’s portfolio of instructor led, fiber optic skills training and fiber optic tooling and product distribution, is being...

Optical Time Domain Reflectometer is a mouthful and a crucial component to understand for anyone working in fiber optics. Yet many sales...

Some of the greatest inventions throughout history were patented in August, summer's hottest month. In 1998, to commemorate the rich...

The word antenna may bring to mind various mental images or memories depending on your age. You may envision the tall radio and TV...

I attended the Broadband Communities Conference in Houston, TX last month. It was great to see colleagues live and in person and to learn...

The OTDR is one of the most powerful tools you will purchase to support your fiber network. This article discusses one key but sometimes...

Optical time domain reflectometers (OTDRs) are critical instruments for evaluating optical fiber spans. Like any technology, they are not...

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

All communications networks experience a life cycle. They are planned, designed, procured, installed, provisioned, and maintained....

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

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...

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...

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

Most underground terrestrial fiber optic cable infrastructure is only several feet below grade. However, there is one network in...

Deployments of 1,728 and 3,456 fiber cables are growing rapidly? They are used in everything from Hyperscale data centers to long-haul...

The inventor, Almon Brown Strowger was motivated because his undertaker business was losing clients to a competitor whose telephone...

Training that provides a significant amount of learn-by-doing boosts a student's retention of information by 10-fold. With hands-on...