Throughout the US the use and deployment of fiber for communications continues at a pace. Utilities also face the need to provide more fiber infrastructure, not only where the expansion of Broadband infrastructure directly & closer to Utility Customer locations is required, but also to provide the low latency high bandwidth fiber network to gather more data for business and operation requirements. AFL will take a strategic look at what fiber technology may look like in the next 3 to 5 years and discuss key industry drivers and associated technologies to support the rapidly evolving demand for greater bandwidth and real-time information