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100

This product manager manages the SDG lineup.

Who is Graham Bowling?

100

This is the name for Calix’s modular, software-defined operating system for the access network.

What is AXOS?

100

This ONT should be considered if a customer wants XGS PON, with voice and only needs a max 2.5Gbps for the LAN. 

What is SDX 631qv?

100

In the A-B-C scene of the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin's character, Blake, informs the sales team that coffee is for these people.

What are closers?

100

This inventor is credited with the first successful telephone patent in 1876.

Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

200

This person was recently assigned to the West Sales team as a new customer liaison manager.

Who is Noah Moody?

200

This is the name of Nokia's cloud-based, end-to-end broadband access solution that simplifies fiber network management using SDN and an app marketplace.

What is Atiplano?

200

This SDG is dual-band with 4x4 at 2.4 GHz and 4x4 at 5 GHz, requires POE+ and is weatherproof.

What is SDG 9712o?

200

Tommy Boy is a classic movie about saving the family company through a successful sales road trip. This late comedian starred as the lovable but clumsy Tommy Callahan III. 

Who is Chris Farley?

200

Before digital networks, long-distance voice traffic relied on this type of switching technology. 

What is circuit switching?

300

Kathleen Walsh’s team is crucial for Mosaic One quoting. If Kathleen or Corbin are unavailable, this is who you can go to for help.

Who is Marianna Demczuk-Ignys, Magda Maszota, or Joanna ‘JJ’ Jablozowska?

300

This is the name for Calix's solution to extend Wi-Fi beyond homes and businesses into the community and public spaces. 

What is SmartTown?

300

This is the highest line rate per channel that the FSP 3000 platform currently provides.

What is 800Gbps?

300
In Moneyball, Brad Pitt’s character manages this business while pursuing a new method of analytics to identify undervalued baseball players. 

What is the Oakland Athletics?

300

This company dominated the U.S telecommunications industry for much of the 20th century before being broken up in 1984. 

What is AT&T?

400

This planner in manufacturing helps with scheduling the delivery of SDK OLTs. 

Who is Katrena Olson (Johnson)?

400

This vendor has a product family called WaveLogic for coherent optical technology and high-speed optical transceivers. 

Who is Ciena?

400

For core routing applications, we can provide solutions thanks to our partnership with this provider of visualized routes. 

What is 6WIND?

400

In The Terminator franchise, this is the name of the artificial intelligence system that becomes self-aware and attempts to exterminate humanity. 

What is Skynet?

400

The first transatlantic telephone cable, completed in 1956, connected North America to this country. 

What is Scotland?

500

This former rotation program engineer turned product manager supports the New Home Gateway Units, which combine ONT and SDG features. 

Who is James Haberstroh?

500

This vendor claims to be the first to launch “true” mesh Wi-Fi in the U.S consumer market. 

Who is Eero?

500

If a customer has an application to replace an existing Cyan Carrier Ethernet network and wants the ability to scale to 400Gbps, this FSP150-XG400 model would be a good fit. 

What is XG490?

500

In the cult classic Office Space, the consultants known as "The Bobs" are famously quoted for asking employees this question. 

What is “What would you say...ya do here”?

500

This Bell Labs invention in 1947 laid the foundation for modern telecommunications electronics.

What is a transistor?

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