Recognizing leadership in North American FTTx

May 1st, 2011

According to the May/June 2011 Lightwave magazine editorial “Raising the bar on leadership,” the Corning/Lightwave FTTXcellence Award process has illustrated how maturation of FTTH in North America. Having the president of the FTTH Council on the judging panel will bring new perspective and help with the increasingly difficult task of picking an FTTXcellence Award recipient, writes Lightwave Editorial Director and Associate Publisher Stephen Hardy…

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