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Posted on 10.24.07
Alcatel-Lucent (Alca-Lu) has been selected by Icelandic fixed line incumbent Siminn to supply its gigabit passive optical network (GPON) fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.24.07
Indian national operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(BSNL)has put out a request for proposals for GEPON (Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network) equipment. UTStarcom Inc. looks well placed as it is already working with BSNL on the carrier’s DSL access network, with partner IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM - message board), and is supplying equipment for the operator’s optical backboneFiled under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 10.24.07
Tullahoma, TN residents will soon be seeing engineers and installation crews working in town on the initial stages of the city’s FTTP network. Asked how Tullahoma’s FTTP differs from others, Toccalino said, "Honestly from what we can see it’s that the system is a very clean system," meaning that the TUB power poles are not heavily "encumbered" which would make it harder for Atlantic crews to install the needed equipment to provide fiber optic services to TUB customers.
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Posted on 10.24.07
Michael Render, president of RVA Market Research and Consulting, is defending his recently published data on US FTTH subscribers. His numbers have been questioned as too high by Teresa Mastrangelo, principal analyst at BroadbandTrends. “Certainly all estimates of markets have error, but RVA uses one of the most extensive processes ever used in the telecom industry to minimize this error…" Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.24.07
France Telecom has announced its proposal to open its ducts to its competitors. Access to existing civil engineering structures will include all information relevant to operators (maps, chamber locations, etc.), enabling them to install their own FTTH network by applying appropriate engineering rules. Filed under: Business and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.15.07
XFONE has announced that NTS Communications has recently been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture to receive $11.8 million in Rural Utilities Service (RUS) broadband loan funding for the purchase and installation of the network, central office and customer premise equipment that will make up NTS’ Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) optical network to be constructed in the Levelland and Smyer, Texas markets. The term of the loan is 17 years, with interest only to be paid in the first year. Filed under: Business and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.15.07
Golden Telecom has announced the results of the first stage of its "Triple-65" project–the rollout of fiber-optic networks in major cities of Russia using fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) technology. In the last three months almost 65,000 broadband subscribershave been added in the most competitive market of Moscow. The companies added 184,600 subscribers in 2007 in total, increasing the number to 299,600 by the end of September 2007. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.15.07
Worldwide PON equipment sales, including, BPON, EPON, and GPON, sequentially grew 3% in the second quarter of 2007, reaching $396 million, says Infonetics Research in its "PON and FTTH Equipment and Subscribers" report. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.15.07
The New Zealand Institute has come out strongly lobbying for a national fibre to the home rollout saying it has identified national economic benefits from broadband in the range of $NZ2.7-$NZ4.4 billion per year with further upside potential possible. Filed under: Business and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.15.07
180 Connect Inc. has announced that it has been awarded the contract to provide the fiber-to-the-home ("FTTH") and video and technology services to Southfork Landing, a 868 acre, 606 homes planned community located in Boise County, Idaho. The project is scheduled to begin immediately with a term of approximately two years. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.04.07
Telephony Online reports that Alcatel-Lucent is leaning towards a hybrid WDM-PON approach as the next gen alternative to the current GPON FTTH networks: In a hybrid system, carriers would replace their GPON wavelengths with four different GPON wavelengths, all within the existing 20 nanometer window but partitioned in smaller 5-nm slices. Carriers might add filters to the nodes between their central offices and their customers rather than to all customers’ homes. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.04.07
Wave7 Optics has announced that Servei de Telecommunications d’Andorra (STA) has selected Wave7 Optics, Telindus SAU and Cisco Spain to construct a new Next Generation Network (NGN) FTTP network, using Wave7’s Trident7 Platform in the access network and Cisco Routers in the aggregation network. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.04.07
ZD Net Australia has published a global overview article on FTTH connections, (US and North America not included). Australia is given a good overview: However, a full-scale nationwide deployment is unlikely. According to Telstra, the company is only considering FTTH in "new greenfield estates where there is appropriate investment by the developer, and Telstra can make a commercial return on its investment".
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Posted on 10.04.07
The number of households in the US with fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections has now reached 2.14mn, representing 2% of all homes in the country, according to a new study by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.04.07
Telephony online has published a 2007 FTTH Con article on opportunities for startups: In general, start-ups can attract attention by promising to cut the in-home costs of fiber deployment. Though discussions of fiber-to-the-x costs typically focus on getting fiber to the side of the home, in-home costs can add more than $500 per home to that equation, Jones said. Start-ups that can ease those expenses, through home networking, storage consolidation and consumer electronics such as set-top boxes, will have investors’ ears. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.24.07
This Lightwave article details the latest progress on European FTTH. Included is a nice chart showing FTTx penetration in European countries. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.24.07
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that Telenor, Norway’s leading service provider, has selected Alcatel-Lucent as a preferred supplier for broadband access solutions, encompassing fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) as well as fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and VDSL2. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.24.07
Lewiston, Maine-based Oxford Networks has announced it will invest more than $4 million to install a 34½-mile fiber-optic network in downtown Bangor and Brewer both in Maine, offering business customers FTTP service. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.24.07
The Tullahoma Utilities Board has approved the $3.6 million dollar bid for design and construction of the FTTP (fiber to the premises) telecommunications project from Atlantic Engineering Group. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.24.07
FTTP Solution is Deployed at 250 Service Providers and Over 450 Communities. Calix has announced that it has now shipped over 200,000 gigabit passive optical network (GPON) optical network terminals (ONTs) to service providers throughout North America. More than half of these are 2.5 Gbps GPON ONTs that have shipped in the last 12 months Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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