Clearfield

Anis Khemakhem, Chief Commercial Officer at Clearfield, shares his optimism from Fiber Connect 2026 about the fiber industry's expansion beyond homes to machine connectivity, fueled by private investment and anticipated public funding, while highlighting his company's focus on solving supply chain and workforce challenges.

Anis Khemakhem, Chief Marketing Officer at Clearfield, identifies five major trends shaping the fiber industry, including accelerated global fiber deployment driven by BEAD funding and public-private partnerships, the growing importance of simplified design and training to address workforce shortages, and speed and density innovations through higher-capacity hardware and multi-gigabit technologies.

Anis Khemakhem, Chief Marketing Officer at Clearfield, discusses the company's labor-efficient modular products and new tools at Fiber Connect 2025 in Nashville. The company's initiatives include training programs and 3D help tools through a partnership with Built, offering installers easy access to product information and installation guidance via mobile devices.

Kevin Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer at Clearfield, outlines predictions for 2025 including fiber's dominance over LEO satellites in BEAD funding and regulatory changes to accelerate broadband deployment. His analysis highlights how AI advancements will push networks toward multi-terabit speeds and drive significant infrastructure investments.

Cheri Beranek, President and CEO of Clearfield, discusses the company's focus on fiber technology and innovative tools like its "Built" app to improve broadband deployment. Clearfield aims to reduce operational costs in network construction through new products that simplify labor requirements.

Kevin Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer at Clearfield, discusses the company's emphasis on developing user-friendly field engineering products for fiber network installations. Morgan introduces Clearfield's latest innovation, the Deploy Real Tap Box, which aims to reduce installation time and increase installer productivity, showcasing the company's commitment to accelerating fiber deployment and improving connection efficiency.

Kevin Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer at Clearfield, predicts a rise in integration and on-shoring (Buy America, Build America), maximization of existing fiber investment, and service providers developing more efficient technologies to connect homes rather than laying fiber for the sake of achieving the artificial "homes passed" metric.

Kevin Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer at Clearfield, addressed Fiber Connect 2023, predicting that the next industry disruption will be in edge computing due to fiber technology's ability to push data center functions closer to end users. Morgan highlighted that the expansion of fiber networks, driven by increased investment, will facilitate home and business services for gigabit and 10 gigabit services, as well as the aggregation of high capacity links from various devices, with fiber's capacity to meet lower latency requirements being the next significant disruption.

Can operators accelerate their fiber deployment? How can they overcome the obstacles holding back the rapid rollout of fiber broadband networks? Clearfield’s Kevin Morgan makes his predictions for what's next on fiber rollouts in 2023.

Kevin Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer of Clearfield, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.