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Light Brigade Celebrates Gimme Fiber Day

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 & JETTING AB Air Blown Fiber Tooling and Equipment Partnership

Sep 1, 2022

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...

First Email Message Sent From Space To Earth

Aug 8, 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...

Jul 31, 2022

Fiber Optic Training

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...

Choose The Right Fiber Network Maintenance & Troubleshooting Tools

Jul 28, 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...

Emergency FTTx Restoration Best Practices

Jul 17, 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...

Reduce Expensive Truck Rolls With Cost Effective Training

Jul 14, 2022

Fiber Optic Training

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...

Fiber Optics Connecting A Wireless World

Jul 10, 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...

Mar 27, 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...

Feb 21, 2022

OTDR Dynamic Ranges

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

Light Brigade Announces Collaboration with Sumitomo Electric Lightwave

Jan 5, 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...

Hiring & Managing Fiber Contractors For A Successful Project

Dec 27, 2021

Hiring & Managing Fiber Contractors For A Successful Project

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

Light Brigade Releases Re-Engineered Fiber Optics 1-2-3 Course

Oct 25, 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...

The Future Is Bright, Fiber Optic Bright!

Aug 1, 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...

Jul 30, 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 20, 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...

The Growing Trend to High Fiber Count Cables?

Mar 31, 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...

The first successful automatically switched rotary dial phone network

Mar 21, 2021