All articles from Ashlyn Stonge

What Is OSP Design? Aerial Outside Plant Engineering Explained

Ashlyn Stonge March 01, 2024

OSP design (outside plant design) is the engineering work that figures out how telecom networks physically get built between a central office and the ...

Katapult: About Us

Ashlyn Stonge March 01, 2024

Recently, a local organization sat down with Andrew Bryden, our Chief Visionary Officer, and picked his brain about who Katapult is and what we do. ...

The Invisible Heroes

Ashlyn Stonge March 01, 2024

How are you reading this right now? Sure, you may be on your phone, a tablet, a laptop, or a PC. But how are these words showing up on your screen? ...

Pennsylvania BEAD Update

Ashlyn Stonge February 28, 2024

Now that the NTIA has approved Pennsylvania’s Volume I BEAD proposal, PA is officially entering the challenge portion of BEAD funding. This phase ...

How to Collect Good Data

Ashlyn Stonge February 16, 2024

Collecting data is an essential step in broadband deployment. Teams have to be able to gather info efficiently to keep from slowing down timelines ...

Underserved Communities Need You

Ashlyn Stonge February 06, 2024

...to help with BEAD funding. Broadband Breakfast hosted a virtual panel with state broadband offices on Wednesday. The eight states represented ...

How to Build a Healthy Joint Use Program

Ashlyn Stonge February 01, 2024

Joint use is the linchpin of pole attachments– it’s the piece of the puzzle that connects attachers and pole owners. The fundamental purpose of joint ...

BEAD Walkout Tools

Ashlyn Stonge January 29, 2024

Most of the work we tend to see over here at Katapult involves long haul and middle-mile connection as opposed to last-mile FTTx. But more of our ...

How to make one-touch make ready work

Ashlyn Stonge January 25, 2024

One-touch make ready (or OTMR) has been a buzzword since 2018, when the FCC’s new rules first went into effect. Nearly six years later, teams across ...

PCI: What It Is and Why It Matters

Ashlyn Stonge January 23, 2024

Good engineering begins with quality data and requires excellent design and construction, but if we stop there we’ve missed an essential step in the ...

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