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Posted on 06.26.07
According to Morgan Keegan analyst Simon Leopold: “We left the show more convinced that, in spite of proponents of the former BellSouth’s ‘IPTV’ initiative which included an FTTC approach, the FTTN-based approach and network architecture will likely be adopted across AT&T’s Southeast territory,” Further quote from the article: The existing suppliers of AT&T’s FTTN network, especially Alcatel-Lucent, stand to benefit from Southeastern deployment of FTTN, while vendors supplying BellSouth’s FTTC network–including Tellabs and Ericsson-owned Redback Networks–could stand to lose some opportunities. Filed under: Business Comments: 1 Comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a commentLine and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: |
The title of this blog entry is “… switch to FTTH from FTTC” but the Morgan Keegan quotes discuss switching “to FTTN from FTTC”. The statement in the quoted article make no reference to FTTH, but rather is fiber-to-the-node (FTTN)focused. I believe your blog entry title is in error.
With that said AT&T is using FTTH (BPON/GPON specifically) for greenfield applications, whereas the former BellSouth has been using FTTC for greenfield (for about 10 years). Hence, I would think it makes most sense for FTTH (BPON/GPON) to replace FTTC in the former BellSouth, thereby aligning with the current AT&T strategy for greenfield deployments.
Comment by Rob-B — July 2, 2007 @ 4:25 am