Name: Top 4 Reasons to Use Microwave vs. Fiber
Start: 2019-05-08T16:00:00Z
End: 2019-05-08T16:00:16.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Get valuable insights and learn best practices from our Wireless and Services Subject Matter Experts on designing, building, operating and maintaining broadband networks to speed time to market, improve quality and increase cost efficiencies.

For rural electric co-ops and municipal utilities, planning and readiness are critical success factors in deploying community broadband. Now that federal funding opportunities are available for these projects, the pace is heating up, and time is of the essence. To meet the requirements for federal funding, and deploy successfully on time, you’ll need to have a detailed deployment plan in place before any funds hit your account. This webinar will take you through the three big success factors of a deployment plan that will have your project shovel-ready from day one, and prepare you to avoid the big pitfalls of cost overruns and project delays.

Wednesday, June 16th at 11 AM (CT), Fujitsu presents, “Three Keys to Broadband Project Success.” During this webinar, Fujitsu broadband specialist, Tom DiFrisco, discusses the three big variables that determine the success of most broadband projects:  

•	Approach to project management 
•	Broadband systems integration strategy
•	Level of detail during the final make-ready

This webinar is directed at CEO’s, general managers, CTO’s and board of director members of rural electric co-ops, municipal electric utilities, counties, or cities.

To ensure you’re shovel-ready, with a solid and workable plan—before you break ground—register for this seminar today.

How to Make Your Broadband Project a Success

Multi-site organizations of every size and in every industry can benefit from implementing SD-WAN. However, building and managing your own SD-WAN can be challenging. A managed SD-WAN service can help your business immediately achieve the benefits, improve agility and set your company up to meet the growing demand for cloud-based services as well as new applications. Attendees will learn about SD-WAN from industry experts, and the benefits a managed SD-WAN solution can provide.

SD-WAN for your Business

You are focused on bringing broadband to the underserved and unserved areas of your community. You filled out and submitted the short-form application for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) and participated in the auction and you won. Congratulations! Now what?

You know the next step is to complete the long-form application where you are to provide additional information on your qualifications, funding, and network.  And the FCC also has other RDOF requirements you must meet as you go down the road to broadband. How do you ensure a successful build out and operations of your network? By working with a trusted and experienced partner.

What should you look for in a partner? To find out, please join Anthony Bednarczyk, Head of the Fujitsu Broadband Practice, in this webinar where he will discuss what you should look for in choosing a partner that is right for you for all stages of your broadband project. He will also illustrate how working with a trusted partner ensures success with a case study.

This webinar is directed at CEO’s, general managers, CTO’s and board of director members of rural electric co-ops, municipal electric utilities, counties, or cities, who are involved in RDOF, or are planning to build a broadband network with other funding sources.

You Won RDOF, Now What?

Broadband has quickly become the fourth utility.  It is essential for communities to grow and thrive. Yet, many communities today, especially in rural areas, do not have broadband connectivity. Just as they built the necessary infrastructure to bring electricity to their communities in the 1930’s and 1940’s, electric co-operatives want to improve the lives of rural Americans by building broadband networks in their communities today.

As you start down the road to broadband, what should you consider to ensure success? To find out, please join Anthony Bednarczyk, Head of Fujitsu Broadband Practice, in this webinar where he will discuss the steps that every broadband project follows.

This webinar is directed at CEO’s, general managers, CTO’s and board of director members of rural electric co-ops, municipal electric utilities, counties, or cities, especially those seeking Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) funding. This first webinar in our broadband series, uses a real case study to illustrate one municipality’s journey down the road to broadband. You will find out what it took for them to build their network, how long it took and the result they obtained.

The Road to Broadband

Between 2003 and 2018, there were 21 great data breaches. Each exposed 50 million to 3 billion records, containing personal information, such as social security, driver’s license, and credit card numbers. Not only did these data breaches lead to big losses for the hacked organizations, but also to lost revenue, customers and business opportunities.

So what lessons can we learn from these data breaches? To find out, please join Nimal Gunarathna, head of Fujitsu Cybersecurity practice, in this webinar where he will discuss the Equifax security breach in depth and lessons learned.

Directed at technical and business security professionals working in banking, healthcare, local and state governments, utilities, transportation, enterprises, and higher education, this webinar discusses the 5 key lessons learned from the Equifax breach and 3 key ways in which you can build the best defense now.

Lessons Learned from Major Security Breaches

Edge computing is all the rage these days, being driven by the exploding bandwidth and low latency needs of real-time applications, especially those for IoT and 5G applications. In fact, edge computing is expected to grow into a multi-billion dollar market in the next 5 years. By processing time-sensitive data closer to where it is consumed, edge computing offers improved application performance and a much higher quality of experience to enable new types of IoT applications and digital services.

But creating edge computing solutions present many challenges. These solutions usually have many components and vendors, making them complex to design, implement, operate and maintain. Targeting those working in product management, planning, architecture, Dev/Ops, Dev/Test, operations and procurement, this webinar focuses on lessons we have learned in designing, implementing, and operating Edge Computing platforms. 

Arshad Khan, one of Fujitsu’s most seasoned Solution Architecture & Software Integration managers, will share first-hand experience and valuable tips on how to ensure your edge computing solutions are successful. Afterwards, Ralph Santitoro, head of Digital Services at Fujitsu, will provide a brief overview of Fujitsu’s Edge Computing services that address these challenges.

Lessons Learned from the Edge

Chances are that you either seen or read articles on microApps or microServices. They seem to be all the rage these days. They talk about how microApps are revolutionizing whole industries, transforming the employee experience and helping brands stay relevant among other things. So what’s the big deal with microApps?

In this webinar, Darryl Whitlock, Fujitsu MicroApps Practice Leader, will answer this question and others. Directed at network planners and architects, engineering and deployment teams and operations, this webinar not only explains what microApps are and the advantages they offer over traditional applications, but also discusses how microApps can be used to improve your network and operations while saving you time and money. Whether you work for a service provider, utility, state or local government, university or enterprise, you will learn the top six reasons why you should consider microApps.

This is the first part of a multi-part webinar series on MicroApps.  Stay tuned for the next one shortly.

What's the Big Deal with MicroApps ?

You know that SD-WAN is critical in enabling your multi-cloud digital transformation.  Now you need to pick the solution that is right for your business. Have you tried to compare SD-WAN service offerings? It is not so easy. Technology vendors and service providers use different terminology and provide different functionality. Don’t you wish they used common terminology and all had a fundamental set of common functionality?

Help is on the way. The MEF recently published the MEF 70 SD-WAN Service Attributes and Services standard that aims to reduce the confusion around SD-WAN service offerings. In this webinar, both SD-WAN buyers and sellers will learn what’s in the standard and how it will help them by defining a common SD-WAN service architecture, standardized terminology and by defining standard policies applied to application flows.

This is the third of a multi-part webinar series on SD-WAN presented by Ralph Santitoro, Head of SDN, NFV and SD-WAN Services at Fujitsu and Distinguished Fellow and Director at MEF Forum. Part 1, Unravelling Managed SD-WAN Services and Part 2, SD-WAN’s Role in the Multi-Cloud, Digital Transformation, are available on-demand.

Standardizing SD-WAN Services with MEF 70

What if you could get a ready-to-use microwave solution, built specifically for your site with support and maintenance, all for a monthly recurring charge? What would it mean to your business?

In this webinar, the second of a two part series on microwave, Carol Brayton, Fujitsu Services Product Manager, discusses how a microwave as a service offering works and how it compares to buying a microwave solution. Geared to product managers, network planners, architects, enterprise sales teams and procurement, this webinar provides valuable insights into the “as a Service” alternative to buying a solution.

The first webinar in this series, Top 4 Reasons for Using Microwave vs. Fiber is available on-demand.

Microwave: Buy vs. “As a Service”

Your business is changing. You need to leverage digital technologies and cloud computing to stay relevant in your market. But as your applications move to the cloud, a whole new set of network requirements, focused on application performance, availability, agility and security, are created that you need to meet. Basically, this means you have to rethink your network design to better support your new cloud-centric environment.

SD-WAN can help! Think of it as a unifying service that combines secure, agile connectivity with centralized policy management to address new, emerging enterprise requirements introduced as more applications migrate to the cloud.  

Directed at IT teams working in enterprises, local and state governments, utilities and universities evaluating or planning to deploy an SD-WAN, this webinar explores different use cases for which SD-WAN empowers enterprises to achieve their multi-cloud, digital transformation objectives. It gives you the understanding to evaluate how different managed SD-WAN service offerings fit with your cloud migration strategy.

This is the second of a multi-part webinar series on SD-WAN presented by Ralph Santitoro, Head of SDN, NFV and SD-WAN Services at Fujitsu and Distinguished Fellow and Director of the MEF Forum.

Part 1, Unravelling Managed SD-WAN Services, is available on-demand.

SD-WAN's Role in the Multi-Cloud, Digital Transformation

Small cells improve a network’s coverage, capacity and quality of service at relatively low cost compared to macro cells. Wireless operators have historically used them to fill in coverage holes and supply extra capacity to high use areas. Recently, operators have started using small cells for large-scale network densification in their efforts to meet ever increasing mobile broadband demands and get ready for 5G.

However, ramping deployments from 100’s to 1000’s of small cells can be tricky. There are many moving parts with lots of room for errors and delays that can break the business case. In this webinar, part 2 of a two part series, Gary Smith, one of Fujitsu’s most seasoned project manager, shares the top lessons we have learned in deploying small cells. Geared to those in wireless working in network planning, procurement, operations, construction and engineering, this webinar will provide you with valuable tips to make your small cell deployment successful.

For other lessons learned, watch Small Cell Deployment: Lessons Learned Part 1 on-demand.

Small Cell Deployments : Lesson Learned Part 2

You have done the research and definitely want to achieve the benefits of an SD-WAN. Not only will it improve the performance of applications through more efficient WAN bandwidth utilization, but also increase productivity and rev up the performance of your business. 

Building and managing your own SD-WAN is challenging.  A managed SD-WAN service can help you immediately achieve SD-WAN benefits.  However, not all SD-WAN services are created equal. How do you evaluate different SD-WAN services to select the one that optimally addresses your business objectives?  

Directed at IT teams working in enterprises, local and state governments, utilities and universities evaluating or planning to deploy an SD-WAN, this webinar focuses on baseline SD-WAN service capabilities and the role they play in the SD-WAN, giving you the understanding you need to best evaluate different managed SD-WAN service offerings. 

This is the first of a multi-part webinar series on SD-WAN presented by Ralph Santitoro, Head of SDN, NFV and SD-WAN Services at Fujitsu and Distinguished Fellow and Director at MEF Forum.

Unravelling Managed SD-WAN Services

Small cells improve a network’s coverage, capacity and quality of service at relatively low cost compared to macro cells. Wireless operators have historically used them to fill in coverage holes and supply extra capacity to high use areas. Recently, operators have started using small cells for large-scale network densification in their efforts to meet ever increasing mobile broadband demands and get ready for 5G.

However, ramping deployments from 100’s to 1000’s of small cells can be tricky. There are many moving parts with lots of room for errors and delays that can break the business case. Geared to those in wireless working in network planning, procurement, operations, construction and engineering, this webinar focuses on lessons we have learned on keeping small cell deployments high quality, on-time and on-budget. One of Fujitsu’s most seasoned small cell deployment project managers, Gary Smith, shares valuable tips on how to ensure your small cell deployments are successful.

Small Cell Deployment : Lessons Learned Part 1

Fiber Optics is great, but so is microwave.  Just like fiber, it delivers high performance, reliability, security and resiliency.  But microwave also offers some advantages that fiber does not, making it well-suited for certain applications.

In this webinar Ryan Pettijohn, Wireless Solutions Manager at Fujitsu, will discuss the top 4 reasons for using microwave instead of fiber. Geared to product managers, network planners, architects, enterprise sales teams and procurement, this webinar will provide valuable insights on the benefits of deploying microwave along with some use cases.

Top 4 Reasons to Use Microwave vs. Fiber

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