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In one week, new FCC rules will go into place changing broadband deployment for third-party attachers. The official report and order can...

1. Make ready costs make a major impact on aerial route selection. Whether it's the engineering or construction (or both), third-party...

Nearly two years ago, we reviewed pole loading platforms O-Calc Pro, SPIDAcalc, and PoleForeman based on their performance, controls,...

Pole loading analysis is a beautiful thing. With all the ongoing small cell projects for 5G wireless, fiber networks powering gigabit...

For my last article, I got a chance to learn a bit more about LiDAR and how our team collected time-of-flight data in the early 2000s....

A vendor just pitched you a LiDAR solution. The demo was impressive—aerial footage, dense point clouds, millions of data points captured per second. The technology clearly works. The question isn't whether LiDAR is powerful. It obviously is. The question is whether it's the right tool for your specific project, your budget, and the deliverables your clients actually need. We've been asking that question since the early 2000s. Katapult Engineering purchased a Riegl terrestrial

This week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Zach Carlson, one of our newest project managers at Katapult Engineering. We took some...

What is Gigabit Internet? It's exactly what it sounds like; internet service providers (ISPs) are now capable of delivering download and...

Last Thursday, the FCC passed the Declaratory Ruling and Report and Order designed to speed access to utility poles. The major...

On July 12th, the Federal Communications Commission released an announcement of their agenda for the August Open Meeting. On this agenda...