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IoT, 5G and the significance of fiber: CommScope’s 2018 case for fibre-heavy networks

October 20, 2026 by Marcus Lee
IoT, 5G and the significance of fiber

In 2018 CommScope argued that 5G and IoT, with Gartner’s forecast of 20 billion connected devices by 2020, would need far more fibre, edge sites and converged networks.

Categories Tech Tags 5G, CommScope, Edge computing, Fibre backhaul, Gartner, IoT
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