Mark Boxer Receives Fiber Broadband Association’s 2024 Chairman’s Award
2024年7月30日 - 10:00PM
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Fiber industry veteran honored for commitment
to FTTH and workforce development
Today at Fiber Connect 2024, the Fiber Broadband Association
(FBA) presented Mark Boxer with the 2024 Chairman’s Award for his
exemplary dedication to the fiber broadband industry and his
leadership throughout FBA’s organization for more than two
decades.
Each year, the Chairman’s Award honors an individual or company
that has shown tremendous effort to promote, educate, or accelerate
Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH). Boxer has more than 30 years’ experience
in the fiber broadband industry and has served FBA in many
capacities. Most notably, Boxer led FBA’s initiative to create a
workforce development program to train and certify the technicians
needed to connect all Americans to reliable broadband. FBA’s
Optical Telecom Installer Certification (OpTIC Path™) program was
introduced in 2021; today 40 of its targeted 56 states and
territories are engaged to roll out the OpTIC Path program, with 44
service providers and 70 community colleges and training
institutions. The OpTIC Path program is also rapidly gaining
traction among employers in the fiber broadband industry.
“Mark’s unwavering support of the fiber broadband industry and
workforce development made him the right candidate for this year’s
Chairman’s Award,” said Jimmy Todd, FBA Board Chair and Nex-Tech
CEO & General Manager. “He is a valued contributor to FBA and
has played a significant role in our ability to address timely
workforce issues throughout the industry and advance our mission to
connect every community to high-performance fiber broadband.”
In addition to his work on the OpTIC Path program, Boxer is
currently serving his second three-year term on the FBA Board of
Directors. He is also Board Liaison of the Deployment Specialists
Committee and Technology Committee, and Co-Chair and Board Liaison
of the Education Committee.
Beyond FBA, he serves OFS as Technical Manager of Solutions and
Applications Engineering, where he assists customers deploying
fiber in a wide variety of network design scenarios around the
world and analyzes trends in telecommunications markets that drive
new product innovation. Boxer’s other activities include inventor
of five U.S. Patents, member and past Secretary of the IEEE Power
Engineering Society Fiber Optic Working Group, and member of North
Carolina Broadband Matters.
Boxer was presented with the Chairman’s Award on Monday, July
29, during Fiber Connect 2024 general sessions. To learn more about
his workforce development efforts and the OpTIC Path program, visit
fiberbroadband.org/education-and-certification/fba-optic-path/. To
learn more about Fiber Connect 2024, visit the conference website
here or subscribe to FBA’s Fiber Forward Weekly newsletter here to
stay updated on conference news and more.
About the Fiber Broadband Association
The Fiber Broadband Association is the largest and only trade
association that represents the complete fiber ecosystem of service
providers, manufacturers, industry experts, and deployment
specialists dedicated to the advancement of fiber broadband
deployment and the pursuit of a world where communications are
limitless, advancing quality of life and digital equity anywhere
and everywhere. The Fiber Broadband Association helps providers,
communities, and policymakers make informed decisions about how,
where, and why to build better fiber broadband networks. Since
2001, these companies, organizations, and members have worked with
communities and consumers in mind to build the critical
infrastructure that provides the economic and societal benefits
that only fiber can deliver. The Fiber Broadband Association is
part of the Fibre Council Global Alliance, which is a platform of
six global FTTH Councils in North America, LATAM, Europe, MEA,
APAC, and South Africa. Learn more at fiberbroadband.org.
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Autumn Minnich Connect2 Communications for the Fiber Broadband
Association FBA@connect2comm.com