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October 2007

• Siminn selects Alcatel-Lucent for GPON FTTH equipment
• Indian Operator BNSL Puts Out RFP for GEPON Gear
• Work on the Tullahoma FTTP System to Commence
• Michael Render Defends FTTH Subscriber Data
• France Telecom offers to open its ducts to competitors
• NTS Granted Rural Utilities Funds to Finance Build-out of Fiber-to-the-Premise Network
• Golden Telecom and Corbina Telecom ahead of schedule on Triple-65 FTTB project
• PON equipment sales up 3%, Ethernet FTTH up 9% in 2Q07
• New Zealand Institute wants FTTH
• 180 Connect Lands Idaho FTTH Contract
• Hybrid WDM-PON Approach Favored by Alca-Lu for Next Gen PON
• Wave7 Optics to Build new FTTP Network for in Andorra
• Global FTTH Overview
• 2 Million US Homes Have FTTH
• FTTH Startup Opportunities

September 2007

• Latest on Europe’s Moves on FTTH
• Telenor selects Alcatel-Lucent for broadband access solutions
• Business FTTP Network in Bangor, Maine
• Tullahoma, TN $3.6 million FTTP Project Approved
• Calix Surpasses 200,000 GPON ONTs
• Orlando Business Telephone Systems Selects Wave7 Optics For New FTTP Networks Serving Multiple Housing Developments In The Orlando Area
• FTTH in New Development in North Carolina
• ACOME to implement FTTH network in Gonfreville-L’orcher
• UTStarcom in Pakistan GEPON Deal
• Telstra’s FTTH Rollout
• Telus FTTH Trial in Canada
• Nexans to deliver fibre solutions for FTTH implementation in Stockholm
• Wave7 Optics to Provide PON Solution for New FTTP Network Serving Enterprise Customers in 86 Municipalities Around Paris
• KPN’s FTTH Plans
• Verizon Almost Sets AP Reporter’s House on Fire During Fios Install
• Orange Slovensko Announces FTTH Plans
• Ignis Photonyx Financials and Overview
• Japan FTTH Ststs
• Successful Demo of Enablence Integrated Transceiver
• Amstersdam FTTH Network Update

August 2007

• Iliad to Launch 100 Mbps FTTH Service in France in Mid. Sept.
• 180 Connect Inc. secures new fiber-to-the-premise contracts in Palo Alto and Truckee, California
• WDM-PON Standardized Wavelength Plan
• Malaysia FTTH Progress
• FTTH in Mauritius?
• Comments on Australian FTTH
• PacketFront Acquisition of DynamicCity Confuses Palo Alto FTTH Plans
• Australia’s TransACT selects Alcatel-Lucent for FTTH Deployment
• Profle of Paris FTTH
• Lay It Yourself Fiber
• New South Africa FTTH Project
• TXP Financial Results
• VDSL is Here for 25 More Years, Fiber is Still Too Expensive Acoording to iSuppli
• Finisar’s GPON Plans
• PacketFront Inc. announces acquisition of DynamicCity
• FTTP for Cable Operators
• Telecom Slovenije FTTH Rollout Plans
• Ikanos Licences Terawave GPON Technology to Enter FTTH Market
• Ericsson Opens New FTTH Research Lab in Singapore
• Ericsson has signed the first GPON contract in Europe with CYTA in Cyprus

July 2007

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June 2007

• PON equipment sales up 9%, Ethernet FTTH up 10% in 1Q07
• French City Montpellier Signs Contract with ISP Free for FTTH
• Momentum selects Alcatel-Lucent as exclusive provider of fiber-to-the-home technology
• FTTH in Europe Report
• Occam Networks Named by Centennial de Puerto Rico
• Analyst: Bell South Likely to Switch to FTTH from FTTC
• Terawave Announces GPON Deployment in Switzerland
• ADC to Market Novera Optics WDM-PON Platform
• PacketFront Enters GPON Market
• Shortage of FTTH Installation Technicians
• Connexion Technologies Selects Alcatel-Lucent for FTTH
• Verizon Announces 1 Millionth FTTH Customer
• TvTel Selects UTStarcom GEPON Technology for Fiber-To-The-Home Network in Portugal
• Federal Loan Funded Open Access FTTH Network in West Virginia
• AT&T Selects Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson for FTTH Greenfield Deployments
• Telus’ Plans for FTTH
• FTTH Chip Market Share Report
• Armstrong Chooses Alloptic for FTTH Deployment in Butler County, PA
• Falcon Broadband to Deploy Hitachi GPON Solution
• City of Tifton Selects Alloptic’s PON Solution
• Fios Install: 9 hrs. East Coast vs. 4 hrs. West Coast
• TXP Intros New Architecture to Provide Power to ONTs
• Connexion Technologies Will Build FTTH Networks in 3 More Properties
• Scientific Atalanta Announces D-PON FTTH Architecture for Cable Operators
• Zhone Announces 3 Customers for Its GPON Platform
• HomePNA vs. MoCA
• Gigabit-PON Market Segments
• Verizon Copper Plant in Virginia Deteriorating Due to FTTH
• Lafayette, Louisiana Municipal Fiber Rollout to Start after Bond Sale
• New FTTH Numbers from Japan Ministry of Communications
• More Info on Norwegian FTTH Deployment
• Graceba Total Communications Chooses Wave7 Optics for New FTTP Network
• O-Net Wins FTTH Componet Deal with Undisclosed Customer
• Further Information on French Regulators Mandate That FTTH Carriers Share Infrastructure
• Study on Resale Value of FTTH-Connected Homes
• Sundbyberg Stadsnät runs city network based on FTTH-technology from PacketFront
• French Regulator Wants France Telecom to Share Ducts
• Alcatel-Lucent to Use Corning Hardened Connectors
• Transceiver Market Growing Again Due to FTTH
• Denmark’s NRGi Fibernet Taps Alcatel-Lucent for Arhus FTTH Network
• Chunghwa Telecom Selects Teknovus For FTTH Deployments
• FTTH Installation Cost Numbers
• LuminentOIC Extends BPON Supply Agreement with Tellabs
• Enablence Public Offering on Hold
• Summary of Global FTTH Activity
• Useful Life of FTTH Elements and 90% Gross Margins for FTTH in France
• Glasgow, Kentucky FTTH Experiment

May 2007

• New Website: OpticalReports.com
• AT&T to Invest USD $500M in US State of Georgia Access Infrastructure
• Lithuanian Telco to Install 1 Gbps FTTH Network
• PacketFront’s FTTH Solution Accepted by USDA’s Rural Utilities Service
• In-Stat: 55 million households using a Fiber-To-The-Home by 2011
• PMC-Sierra Announces 4 Million ONU Milestone
• Independent Telcos Claim AT&T is Stalling on Giving Fiber Rights for Utility Poles
• RVA FTTH Market Research Data 2007
• Case Study: Fiber to the Building Cost is 20% Less Than Coax
• Question for Readers
• ONU Patent Application Filed by Broadlight
• FTTH in Slovenia
• Norwegian Power Company Chooses PacketFront for FTTH
• FTTH Shipments Down Slightly in Q1 ‘07 from Q4 ‘06
• Europe Leading the Way in Private-Public FTTH Rollout Models
• New Asia FTTH Stats
• TXP Results Bolstered by ONT Sales
• UTStarcom to Provide GE-PON Equipment for Regional Network in Indian State of Goa
• New GPON Report from Light Reading
• EMBARQ LOogistics to to Deploy Wave7 FTTH Gear in Nebraska
• Danish Broadband Provider Taps Cisco for Active Ethernet FTTH Network
• Fujitsu Walking Away from GPON?
• Siemens to Deploy GPON in Kuwait
• PON Equipment Shipment Increase 20% in Q1 2007
• North Carolina Development Taps Connexion for FTTH
• Tellabs Issued a Patent for WDM-PON
• Broadband Properties Magazine March 2007 Issue
• Korea Telecom to Spend USD 2.2B on FTTH by 2010
• FTTP Additions Growing Quicker than DSL
• South Korea GE-PON Exports
• Question for FTTHBlog Readers
• Adtran and Tellabs Reportedly Close to Winning Qwest’s FTTx RFP
• Symmetrical Fios for Verizon?
• 42Networks receives order to provide 3,000 FTTH Connections in Panama
• ERF Wireless Signs Agreement to Provide $2 Million Plus Fiber-to-the-Home Network for Mexican Resort Development
• Tellabs and NTELOS Partner for GPON Services
• TransACT to Provide FTTP to Canberra, Australia Suburb
• Added Value for Homes with FTTH
• Cable Industry Competes with FTTH
• Freescale Announces GPON Chip
• British Telecom Slows FTTH Rollout
• AT&T Lightspeed Costs Rising
• Ericsson Vying for Australia FTTN Deal
• Conexant Intros Linux-Powered GPON and GEPON Chips
• FTTH Connections Double in the Last Year
• Alloptic Deployment in Rice, Minnesota
• Motorola Introduces Cable-PON Technology
• Teknovus and Fiberhome Chosen as Benchmark by China Telecom
• GPON Interoperability
• Building Out FTTH
• New Patent for Alloptic
• TXP Announces New GPON Mini-ONTs
• Michael Render on FTTH
• Tellabs Looks at Outside Vendors for ONTs
• Occam Networks and Iowa Telco LISCO Deploy FTTH
• Verizon Fios Uptake Numbers

April 2007

• Emtelle Installs 4000 M of Air Blown Fiber for Residential Access in Australia
• PacketFront FTTH Equipment Deployed for a California Residential Development
• Japans KDDI Finishes Trial of Novera Optics WDM-PON Technology
• TelStrat Announces Shipment Milestone for GPON ONTs
• FTTH/FTTB Account for More than 6% of Broadband Connections in OECD
• Connexion to Build FTTH Networks for 3 Developments
• Corning Supplies OSP Equipment to Las Vegas FTTH Development
• Worldwide PON equipment nears $1 billion in 2006
• Indonesia’s Biznet to Deploy Siemens GEPON FTTH
• Verizon to Begin GPON Deployments
• Xponent Photonics Receives USD $23 Million in New Funding
• Hitachi to Expand GPON FTTH Network to Coquille, Oregon
• New US FTTH Figures from FTTH Council

March 2007

• FTTH Council Urges National FTTH Policy
• Neuf-Cegetel FTTH Plans
• Iceland Telecom Investing in FTTH

February 2007

• Deep Fiber Networks Will Reach 26% of US Homes by 2010
• Mindspeed and Terawave to Parner on GPON
• Cortina Acquires Immenstar
• iProvo Facing Technical and Financial Difficulties
• EU to Contest German Law Protecting Fiber Network
• Enablence Starts Volume Integrated FTTH Component Production
• Korea to Go All FTTH
• France Telecom to Start FTTH Deployment on March 1
• Novera Optics to Deploy 30,000 WDM-PON Lines
• Calix Expands into Canadian FTTH Market
• Siemens Demos 10G PON Transmission
• Colorchip Raises USD 7.4 M
• Report on Dutch FTTH
• Alcatel-Lucent Supplies GPON Gear to Swedish Utility
• Alcatel-Lucent and Freescale Partner on GPON
• EPON or GPON for China
• Ericsson Acquires Entrisphere
• Another Investment Firm Predicts that AT&T Will Embrace FTTH
• Debate on San Francisco FTTH Network
• FTTH Component Vendor Enablence to Raise $15 M in a Private Offering
• France Telecom RFP for GPON
• British Telecom to Provision FTTH for New UK Development
• French Carrier Iliad Says That Active Ethernet is the Way to Go

January 2007

• Verizon Projected to Add 1.1 M Fios Subscribers in 2007
• French Goverment Ministry Paper on the Case for FTTH
• Burlington Vermont FTTH Network
• AT&T not Altering Fiber to the Node Strategy
• MRV to Acquire Fiberxon
• Cable Companies Ponder FTTH
• Tellabs Ships 1 Millionth Optical Network Terminal
• FTTP in the Plans for UK’s “Black Country”
• Teknovus and Fiberxon to Collaborate on 2.5G GEPON
• Dongwon and Teknovus Win Korea Telecom GEPON FTTH Contract
• Rural Minnesota Communities Face Financial Gap for Fiber Plan
• France’s Free Telecom has Big Plans for FTTH
• St. Paul, Minnesota Considering Citywide Municipal FTTH Network
• FTTH and Europe: Is economics still the sticking point?
• Alma Communications Chooses TelStrat for GPON FTTH
• How the Korean Market Stacks up for Teknovus
• Wilson, North Carolina FTTH Network Ready to be Funded and Deployed
• Overview Article on Korea FTTH
• Avanex Intros Laser Chip for FTTH Di- and Tri-plexers
• Korea Telecom Chooses Dasan Networks and PMC-Sierra for Seoul FTTH Deployment
• Fi-Ra Photnics Wins PLC Splitter Contract in Korea

December 2006

• Korea Telecom to Upgrade to FTTH by 2010
• Enablence Receives FTTH Diplexer Order
• PMC-Sierra Intros China-Ready EPON FTTH Chips
• According to ABI Research, Video Will Drive FTTH Success
• Latest Statement from AT&T on FTTH

November 2006

• Ericsson Entrisphere Acquisition Speculation
• West Plains Telecommunications Chooses Alloptic for GEPON
• 3Q 2006 FTTH Shipments Down 1% According to Report
• Contrarian View on Verizon Fios
• List of French Cities Scheduled for FTTH
• Municipalities Will Not Be Major Players in Europe According to Report
• Tellabs: Verizon Will Deploy Mostly BPON in 2007
• British Telecom Rules out FTTH for the Time Being
• Europe FTTH Statstics
• Paris Opening Up City Sewers for FTTH
• German and French Regulators May Have Divergent Opinions on FTTH Regulators
• FTTH in Japan Driven by Voice Quality and Prices
• Alcatel GPON to be Used in Korean FTTH Trial
• FTTH Subscriber Numbers Increased by 88% in 2005
• RAD Opens R&D Center in China for PON Technology
• Calix to Upgrade Access Network in Trinidad and Tobago
• Swedish Towns to Get 1 Gbps FTTH Using Cisco Equipment
• 180 Connect Announces 2 FTTH Projects in Western US
• Clarksville, Tennesse Votes for FTTH Network from Electric Utility
• FTTH Investment Opportunities
• Alcatel Wins Contract in Indiana
• FTTH in Wabasha, Minnesota
• Verizon Fios Installation is Much Slower in Urban Areas
• Hitachi ONT is MoCA Certified
• Shentel to Use Wave7 for FTTH
• PMC-Sierra CTO Gives Interview on Passave Acquisition
• Wilson, North Carolina FTTH Debate
• Top FTTH Search Terms
• Fi-ra Photnics Receives Order for FTTH Optical Splitters from Samsung
• Optical Triplexer Patent Granted to Alcatel
• FTTH in the Exploratory Stage for the Dutch City Arnhem
• Request for Proposals for FTTH Network for Prince Henry village project in Sydney, Australia

October 2006

• FTTH Comes to Vietnam
• Wave7 Optics to Build FTTP Network for Auburn, Indiana
• Verizon Adds 147,000 Fios Customers in Q3 2006
• Alloptic to Supply GEPON Gear to St. Olaf College
• Siemens to Supply GPON Gear to Danish Utility EnergiMidt
• Tellabs Reports Slowdown in FTTP Gear
• Verizon to Introduce Vios a Business Fiber Optic Service
• Australian Carrier Telstra’s FTTH Installation Costs Questioned
• Municipal Fiber Projects in Europe
• Mexican Resort Chooses Alloptic GEPON
• FTTH Economics Makes Sense for Developing Countries
• Loma Linda Fiber Network Article and Comments on GigaOm
• Queensland, Australia State Government Conteplating FTTH Network for Brisbane
• Cablevision CEO Subscribing to Fios?
• USDA Rural Development’s Broadband Access Funding Used for FTTH Installation
• French Provider Iliad to Acquire Citefibre
• AT&T Says That its Sticking with FTTN
• Fiber Coating Design for FTTH
• Time Article on FTTH Financial Risk
• Updated Municipal Broadband Map
• FTTH Council Releases Definition of Terms
• Amsterdam Begins FTTH Network Build
• New OECD Report on Broadband
• More Info on AT&T FTTH/N Deployment
• Neuf Cegetel to Bring FTTH to Paris in 2007
• FTTH Computerworld Article
• CopperGate and Broadlight Partner for In-Home Signal Distribution
• French Industry Ministry Aims for 4M FTTH Connections by 2012
• PacketFront to Deploy 55,000 FTTH Ports in Holland
• Tennesse Telco Ben Lomand Chooses Occam for Triple Play and Active Ethernet FTTH
• Is Verizon Poaching the Maintenance Budget for Copper Lines to Finance Fios?
• Broadband Properties Magazine September Articles
• FTTH Prism Newsletter by Chaffee Fiber Optics
• Connexion Technologies’ Glen Lang Wins FTTXcellence Award
• Huawei Launches FTTx Platform
• Wilson, North Carolina FTTH
• Zoomy Communications Receives FTTH Certification
• According to Top FTTH Lawyer, Muni Broadband is Gaining Ground
• Financial Analysts Starting to View FTTH as a Positive
• 1 Million FTTH Subscribers Surpassed in the US
• NTT’s Perspective on Japan FTTH Market
• PON Equipment Sales to Reach $3 Billion by 2009
• New Patent Applications
• Alcatel Intros Compact GPON Terminal
• New Update on UTOPIA
• TXP Corporation to Acquire Siemens ONT Technology
• Korean Institute ETRI Annnounces 10G TDMA PON Platform
• Gould Technology Acquires Teem Photonics PLC Splitter Line
• Emerson Network Power to Supply FTTH Cabinets and Pedestals
• Goodman Networks Announces FTTH Retrofit Services
• Patent Watch: Recent Patent Award
• Fiber Access, Legacy Services
• Above-ground vs. Below-ground FTTH Network Installation
• Telstrat Announces 2.4 Gbit/s GPON Addition to Its Broadband Loop Carrier Platform
• Analysts Take on Verizon’s GPON Plans
• State of FTTH in Japan, Korea, and China
• Palo Alto FTTH Project Back On
• NetCologne FTTH Network in Germany
• Calient Announces MEMs-based Optical Cross Connect for Access Networks
• Wave7 Wins In Iowa, Indiana, and Texas
• Broadlight Announces New GPON PHY
• Alloptic Announces 10 Gbps EPON Platform

September 2006

• Verizon Fios Cost per Customer
• Enablence Signs Manufacturing Deal with Sanmina-SCI
• Yano Research FTTH Survey
• Interactive Enterprise Partners and Wave7 Partner on Provisioning
• Alloptic to Supply GEPON Gear for a Venezuela FTTH Deployment
• Verizon Subscriber and Cost Numbers
• Danish Service Provider HEF Bredband to Build 5,000 Km 80,000 Subscriber Fiber Access Network Using Cisco Gear
• FTTH for European Municipalities
• Wave7 Wins Contract for New FTTP Network for Ridgeville Telephone Company in Ohio
• Fulcrum and Broadlight Parner on GPON
• Wave7 Optics to Supply Equipment for FTTP Network in Bangladesh
• SaskTel’s Take on FTTH
• Ignis Photonyx Will Demo WDM-PON System at Fiber Optics Conferenc in France
• Wave7 and Infinity Communications Building FTTP Network in the Cayman Islands
• Enablence and Kotura Sign Cooperation Agreement for Silicon Triplexers
• Enablence and Ignis Sign Fab Agreement for FTTH Components
• Brunei Looks to Japan for Help with FTTH
• Corecess Intros WDM-PON
• Bell South Plans VDSL2 Upgrade
• Wave7 Optics Wins FTTP Contract in Ohio
• WDM-PON Extended to 512 Users Per Fiber?
• New FTTH Network in Southern Utah
• Telus Is Investing in Fiber to the Node
• After Hurricane Katrina, New Mississippi Development to Have Open FTTH
• Australian FTTH Overview
• Iliad Announces Paris FTTH Plan Including a Free Service
• GPON Interoperability Event
• Further Concerns About Fios FTTH Battery Backup
• Is FTTH 20 Years Too Late?
• Lucent Announces Partnership with Novera Optics for WDM-PON in Japan
• Tenvera Intros Fiber Into the Home System
• US Patents Issued for the Week of Sept. 5, 2006
• Update on Verizon Fios in Indiana, Washington, Massachussetts and California
• Teknovus’ China Footprint

August 2006

• Photos of Verizon Fios Installation in New Jersey
• Verizon Fios TV Cost Comparison
• Seattle Culls Potential Vendors for Municipal Broadband Deployment
• Some Photos of AT&T Lightspeed Equipment in Texas
• Speculation from Analysts that AT&T wil Change Access Architecture to FTTH
• AT&T Chooses HomePNA Premises Wiring Standard over MOCA
• KMI Report Forecasts 25% Annual Fiber Access Equipment Growth
• New GPON Installation for Swedish Cable Company Koping Kabel-TV
• Telecom New Zealand Intiates FTTH Trial in Manukau City
• Calix Leads US GPON Deployments
• Justification for Europe’s FTTH Lag
• GPON Vendor Iamba Raises USD $8M
• San Francisco Comissions Fiber through the Sewer Study
• Novera Optics Announces 1.25 Gbps WDM-PON Platform
• Controversy over Wall Street Journal Article on a Cable Labs Report
• Clarksville, Tennessee FTTH Network Referendum
• FTTH as a Utility Service Case Study
• FTTH Activity is Still Mostly Concentrated in Japan
• FTTx Modules and Components Numbers
• 700,000 PON subscribers in Q2 2006
• 28% of Broadband Subscribers in US Rural Area use FTTH/FTTC
• Plans for 1000 Mbps FTTH Service in a New Zealand Community
• Verizon is Protective of its Utility Poles in Michigan
• FTTH for Master-Planned Developments
• Verizon Fios in New York City
• Novera Optics Awarded WDM-PON Patent
• New Qwest FTTH Development Near Phoenix, Arizona
• Australian Carrier Telstra Puts Brakes on FTTN Rollout
• Intial FTTH Steps for San Francisco
• Second FTTH Network for Amsterdam
• Verizon GPON Announcement
• Korea Telecom to Deploy WDM-PON Equipment for 20,000 Additional Subscribers
• 2005 FTTH Numbers from Infonetics
• Muni Wi-Fi vs. Fiber
• WDM-PON and Outside Plant Equipment Patents Issued by USPTO
• Comments from British Telecom on PON
• Verizon Accelerating FTTH Deployment due to Cable Competition
• Some Cable Operators are Installing Fiber to the Home

July 2006

• EU Bans Fiber Optic Network for Dutch Town
• Singtel Starts FTTH Trials
• Verizon GPON Selection Imminent
• Is Interoperability an Advantage of GPON over EPON?
• PMC-Sierra PON Chip Sales will Decline Due to NTT Network Tweak
• Alcatel May Receive Part of Verizon’s GPON Contract
• Nortel’s WDM-PON Plans
• Information on GigaComm
• Broadlight Opens China Office
• Alloptic Signs Latin America Distribution Agreement
• Patent Watch: Dynamic PON for Cable TV Systems
• Korea Telecom Chooses Samsung/Teknovus for GEPON FTTH
• Approaches for Minimizing Risk in FTTx Installations
• Tularosa Basin Telephone Chooses Occam Networks for FTTP and FTTN
• Meriton Chosen for FTTH Backhaul by Buckeye TeleSystem
• Dasan Networks Chooses PMC-Sierra (Passave) EPON Chips
• More Information on the COLT Project in Australia and Thailand
• Survey Indicates that FTTH Deployments Driving Consumer Electronic Sales
• Meet the 40 Enablers of FTTP for Multidwelling Units
• Immenstar Intros Dual Mode GPON/EPON Chipset
• Report on Business Case for FTTH in Asia
• GPON vs. EPON as Measured by HDTV Stream Capacity
• If Consumers Owned the Last Mile of Fiber..
• Swedish Firm Fiberdata Receives GPON Order
• Bell Canada Launches FTTH Service
• Latest on Verizon Fios Deployment Mishaps
• Fi-Ra Photonics Awarded Korea Contracts for GEPON Splitters
• 3 Fiber Connections are Key for FTTH to Gain Advantage over DSL
• Northern Minnesota Municipal Broadband Debate
• Chungwa Telecom to Invest USD $1.5B in Next Gen Networking in the Next 5 Years

June 2006

• Patent Watch: 3 New WDM-PON US Patent Applications Filed
• UBS Analysts Believe that the US RBOC GPON Decision Will Be in July
• Klamath Falls, OR Approves Lightspeed Networks Franchise Ordinance
• ECI Launches GPON
• Issues of Fiber Reach in Asian Multi Dwelling Units
• Verizon Gives Out More Incentives to Win Cable TV Franchise in Oldsmar, Florida
• Profile of Warwick Valley Telephone Company’s All-IP Network
• Will Tellabs be acquired next?
• HDTV - Cable’s Main Competing Point Against PON
• Free Download of Telco Critic’s Bruce Kushnick’s Book
• Additional Coverage of Immenstar in the Linley Wire
• Plastic Optical Fiber for the Last Leg in FTTH Networks
• Alloptic Announces “Deep Fiber” Products for Cable Operators
• AT&T Signs FTTP Contract for a 20,000 Home Master Planned Community near Houston
• Parts 3 and 4 of Nyquist Condition China FTTH Series
• Crows Destroying Tokyo Fiber
• ADC Receives Major Order for Outside Plant FTTx Products
• iProvo FTTH Project Finances
• Regulatory Hurdle Cleared for Amsterdam Fiber Project
• Rosy Outlook for FTTH from Heavy Reading
• Wave7 Details Approach to Improve Video Over RF Picture Quality
• New Japan FTTH Numbers
• 100 Mbps Capability for a Cable HFC Netork
• SureWest Adds 1656 Homes to Its FTTH Footprint in California
• Taiwanese Vendors Preparing to Enter xPON Market
• Pandatel Introduces WDM-PON
• Tellabs Intros GPON
• New Commentary on Immenstar
• US RBOC GPON Vendor Selection May be Put of to 2nd Half of 2006
• Ramifications for FTTH in NTT is Broken Up
• Dumont Telephone Company Chooses Hitachi Telecom GPON
• Tellabs GPON Pricing Concern
• GPON or GE-PON in China?
• Profile of Tom Wendt, Optical Entertainment Network Founder
• 1 Gbps Symmetric Access Envisioned for Singapore within 10 Years
• Alma Communications Company Chooses TelStrat 2.4 Gbps GPON
• Recent Comments from at&t in Defense of Copper
• The Nuts and Bolts of Verizon Fios Franchise Negotiation
• EMBARQ Logistics Signs Distribution Agreement with Wave7 for Trident7 and Last Mile Link FTTP Systems
• Allied Telesis Enters GEPON Market
• Nortel and Huawei Cancel Joint Venture
• Emerson Network Power to Enter FTTH Market
• Verizon Fios Installation Experience from PC Magazine Columnist
• Geneva, Illinois vs. at&t on the Issue of Municipal Fiber

May 2006

• Connexion Technologies Chooses Allied Telesyn for Active Ethernet FTTH Deployment
• New Report on Broadband Access Networks in Europe
• Teknovus Announces Support for TDM-over-Ethernet
• Fujitsu Formally Announces GPON Platform
• New Player in the EPON Chip Space
• Novera Optics Formally Announces WDM-PON Platform
• Comcast Brings in Salt Lake City Councilman to Speak Against Nashville Fiber Network
• Zhone Chooses Broadlight for GPON
• Hardened Connectors, Cables, and Multi Service Terminals for FTTH Outside Plant
• Three Part Series on FTTH in China
• Speculation Continues on AT&T’s Plans for Project Lightspeed
• Zhone Announces Active Ethernet OLT
• Passive Optical vs. Active Ethernet Networks
• FTTH Photos on Flickr
• Are Triplexers the Stumbling Block to Wide Adaptation of FTTH
• Ethernet Alliance forms 10 GEPON and 10GBASE-T Subcommittees
• Tasmania FTTH Trial to Go Live at End of 2006
• Broadlight Touts 25 Design Wins and Intros New Chipset
• Sprint Signs Large Contract for FTTx Test Equipment
• Seattle Issues Request for Information for FTTP Network
• Profile of Sallisaw FTTH Network
• Cable MSO Mediacom Using GPON for Commercial Ethernet Services
• Huawei Intros GPON System with 1 Terabit Switching Capacity
• WDM-PON Overview Paper
• Fios FTTH Connection Cost Down to $715
• Patent Application for WDM-PON Communication Recovery
• First FTTH Development in Pakistan
• Alcatel FTTU Deployed in Sweden
• Alloptic Selected for Business Services GEPON Network in North Carolina
• Occam Networks Intros New Active Ethernet OLT and ONT Products
• Ericsson in Pursuit of US RBOC GPON Business
• Debate on FTTH in Truckee, California
• First FTTH Deployment in Bulgaria
• AT&T Aims to Narrow Broadband Income Gap
• Verizon Streamlines and Renames Multi-Dwelling Fios Business Unit
• GPON Testing To Ensure Multivendor Interoperability
• List of Europe FTTH Council Board Members
• Carrier Spending to Shift in 2009?
• Effect of Fios on Verizon Hiring in New Jersey
• Statements from AT&T on Project Lightspeed Regarding Bandwidth Concerns
• Verizon is the Most Voracious Consumer of Fiber Optic Cable in the US
• FTTH for Lincoln County, Georgia
• New KMI Research Report Predicts Rapid Broadband Access Network Market Growth
• Teknovus Announces Carrier Deployments of Chipsets
• History of UTOPIA and Advantages of Open Access Active Ethernet
• San Antonio to See First AT&T Project Lightspeed Availability
• Verizon Inscreases Speed of Fios FTTH Service

April 2006

• New US FTTH Deployment Numbers from TIA and FTTH Council
• Chinese Operator Guiyang CMCC Selects Flexlight GPON Equipment
• More Outages in California Due to Verizon Fios Rollout
• Alloptic Deploys GEPON Security Network in South Africa
• Change of Heart for AT&T on Municipal Broadband
• Sweden’s B2 Delivering Triple Play Over Active Ethernet FTTH Using Cisco Switch
• Mabel, Minn. Telco Chooses TelStrat GPON FTTH-ready BLC Platform
• New Book on FTTx
• Question for Readers in FiberForums
• Back-up Battery Maintenance Strategies for the ONT
• Recent WDM-PON Patent Applications
• Fiber to the Poor in Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Hitachi to Present Case Study on the Bandon, Oregon GPON FTTH Deployment
• Alloptic GEPON FTTH Gear to be Deployed in a New Zealand Resort Development
• Australia’s National Fiber Network
• FTTH Stats from the OECD Report
• UTOPIA May Expand to Southern Utah
• Corning Cable Systems Wins Contract with Telepak in Mississippi
• Analysis of Passave Acquisition by PMC Sierra
• AT&T Sues 2 Illinois Suburbs Blocking Lightspeed Over Franchise Dispute
• Regulations May Derail Large Australian FTTP Project
• 20th Anniversary of the First FTTH Installation
• New Report Gives Credence to Verizon’s FTTH Strategy
• Alloptic GEPON Gear to be Deployed in Upstate New York
• Municipal Fiber Debate in Northern Minnesota
• AT&T Project Lightspeed FTTN Comes to Frisco, Texas
• New PON Report from Infonetics
• PMC-Sierra to Acquire Passave for $300M
• More Info on IEEE 10G EPON Study Group
• Powering the Premises-Based Optical Network Terminal
• Ramifications of Lucent and Alcatel Merger for FTTx
• TDS Telecom Deploys Calix C7 Multiservice Access Platform

March 2006

• Critique of AT&T’s Project Lightspeed
• Alloptic Offers 1 Gbit/s ONT
• Hanaro Telecom Selects Corecess
• Entrisphere Reported To Be on GPON RBOC Short List
• Global FTTH Overview
• Filling the Void with Ethernet over Copper
• USD $5B FTTH Venture Fund Launched
• Comments about GPON from Motorola Marketing Execs
• Wave7 PON Equipment Deployed in Denmark
• Wave7 Deploys in New Mexico
• PacketFront Equipment Used to Provide Triple Play to Low Income Development in Mexico
• Request for Concept for Singapores Next Generation Network
• Why the Business Case for Asia FTTH Deployments is the Most Compelling
• Wireless vs. Fiber Optic Networks for Municipalities
• Alloptic Deploys in Bahrain
• Verizon’s Motivation for FTTP
• World Wide Wide Packets Receives Approval from Rural Utilities Service
• More Support for WDM-PON
• GPON Chip Competition
• Verizon Migrating to MOCA from Cat5
• Tellabs Behind Schedule for GPON RFP
• More Verizon Fios Digging Complaints
• ADC Wins Contract in Louisiana’s First FTTH Deployment
• RBOCs Estimate 10M GPON Subscribers in the US by 2011
• Anaheim FTTN Network
• 10 GEPON Study Group to be Formed
• Ignis Touts WDM-PON Splitters
• Misleading Wall Street Journal Article
• Emcore Releases FTTH Photodiodes into Mass Production
• Exhaustive Report on Australian Broadband
• FOA Certifies FTTx
• Passave Delivers 1 Millionth EPON Chipset to Mitsubishi
• $7.4 Million Funding Round for Novera Optics
• Teknovus Supplying GEPON Chipsets to Allied Telesyn
• New Fiber to the Node Platform from Calix
• ADC FTTP Market Information
• PON Component Report from LightReading
• NEC Anticipates Big GPON Market in the US
• AT&T - BellSouth Merger
• 10G EPON Call for Interest Presentation Online
• Shentel to Deploy FTTH in West Virginia
• Shanghai Netcom Initiates FTTH Project
• GPON vs. GEPON Discussion at Lightreading
• Patent Watch: An FTTH System Compatible with Cable Infrastructure
• Worldwide FTTH Data from Dittberner
• Verizon’s Connection Cost Data
• US RBOC GPON RFP Vendor List Reduced to 4

February 2006

• iProvo Project Has Revenue Shortfall
• Deep Fiber Deployment Strategy Poll Results
• FTTH Opportunity in Switzerland
• Wyoming GPON Deployment
• Alternative Carrier in Cologne to Build FTTH Network
• New WDM-PON Rollout in Korea
• New Estimates for US FTTH Deployments
• Packet Front Wins Norwegian Open-Access FTTH Order
• Alloptic wins CATV Contract in China
• North Kansas City Fiber Network
• Hybrid GPON Architecture from Fujitsu
• Reconfigurable Optical Network Terminal from Calix
• More on France Telecom FTTH Trial
• Fiber Optic Cables to Every Home in Singapore
• Latin America FTTH Plans
• Symmetric FTTH Internet Access Changes User Patterns
• Ethernet over LAN vs. Active Ethernet
• LAN as an Alternative to Active Ethernet or PON
• Optical Entertainment Network Progress
• Teknovus Catching Up with Passave?
• FTTH Council Briefs FCC
• Update on FTTH Status in Europe
• Broadlight Opens Japan Office
• WDM-PON as an Alternative to Active Ethernet
• AT&T (SBC) Signs Deal to Operate New FTTH Network in a Nevada Development
• Wave7 Coming on Shore in Mexico
• MSOs Running Out of Capacity
• Verizon Fios Being Deployed in Multi Dwelling Units
• APA Cables Wins FTTP Contract in North Dakota
• Cisco, Alcatel, IPTV and FTTH
• Fujitsu Strengthens GPON Development Effort
• The World According to Comcast CEO
• OLT Pricing for the RBOC GPON RFQ
• Faulty Motorola OLT Cards in the Verizon Buildout
• Terawave Wins PON Contract in Athens, Georgia
• Portland Deciding Whether to Go with Qwest or Build Own FTTH Network
• Paxio Partners with Pulte Homes for FTTH in Northern California
• ECI and Nortel Parting Ways
• More on EPON and Carrier’s Deployment Strategy
• $4-6K Premium for FTTH Homes in the US
• ADC Wins FTTH Contract with Pineland Telephone Cooperative
• Question of the Week Results
• WDM-PON Simulation Software Needed
• Verizon’s Bandwidth Allocation Plans
• Its Nortel and Huawei for the RBOC GPON RFP
• Terawave Partners with French Integrator for GPON
• Fujitsu Reaffirms GPON Strategy
• Symmetric 100 Mbps FTTH Fios Service from Verizon?
• Nortel Partners with Huawei
• New WDM-PON Deployment in Korea
• Fiber Backbone for Rotterdam

January 2006

• WDM-PON Developments
• Whats the Migration Path for Hybrid Fiber Coax Networks
• Fios Impact on Verizon Earnings
• FTTH Council Europe Press Releases
• Salira Deploys in Bangladesh
• Vienna FTTH Network
• FTTH Rollout in Bangkok
• PacketFront Makes Business and Technology Announcements
• Allied Telesyn Deploys GEPON Triple Play Network
• Alloptic Announces Redundant Optical Network Terminal
• Passave Files Patent Application for Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation
• Hillegom, Netherlands Deploys FTTH Network
• New Report from ABI Research Examines Link Between FTTH and IPTV
• Danish Carrier Opts for Deep Fiber Instead of FTTH
• Roadmap Beyond Current Generation xPON
• NEC Intros GPON Products
• Verizon Signs Fios Contract with Home Developer Lennar
• LaHarpe Telephone Company Upgrades to FTTH with CopperCom
• KDDI and Teknovus Announce the 10 Gbps EPON Roadmap
• Teknovus Announces a New ONU Chip
• New FTTH Generic Requirement from Telcordia
• France Telecom to Initiate FTTH Trial
• ADC Fiber Management Solutions Deployed in Burlington, Vermont
• Neo-Photonics Ships 1 Million Transceivers
• Optical Solutions Wins Contract with Cal-Ore Telephone
• FTTx Component Vendor Receives Funding from Motorola
• Fujitsu Responds to the GPON RBOC RFP
• China FTTx Includes a LAN Component
• All Optical Switching for FTTx
• Advantages of GPON According to Alcatel
• Key WDM-PON Patent Application
• French President Jacques Chirac Sees the Light in Fiber Optic Broadband
• Broadlight Samples GPON Chips
• New Report from InStat on Asia FTTH
• Who’s Reading FTTHblog
• Verizon CEO Makes Comments on Fios FTTH
• Paris Intiates Broadband Fiber Plans
• 
  Taiwan Firm Askey Computer Selects Broadlight GPON Chips
• Terawave BPON Deployed to Businesses in Southern Indiana
• Amsterdam City Council Gives Approval to FTTH Plan
• 
  India Telco BSNL Floats Tender for GPON
• Verizon Migration Path from BPON to GPON to WDM-PON
• 
  Analysts Wary About Verizon Fios FTTP
• Europe FTTH Falling Behind US and Asia According to Europe FTTH Council President
• Tellabs Readies GPON System
• Cable Service Provider Offering Competitive Bit Rates with Verizon Fios in New York State
• Verizon VP States That IPTV is not Ready for Prime Time
• Nortel Responds to the RBOC GPON RFP
• Physics Behind Optical Curl Cords
• Ignis Photonyx Acquires Fi-Ra
• Wave7 Optics Gets a Foothold in the United Arab Emirates
• Palo Alto FTTH Trial has Ended
• Some Numbers on the Korean FTTH Market
• New FTTP Network For Businesses in Boerne, Texas
• New WDM-PON Patent Applications
• New FTTH Report from the Japan Ministry of Communication
• Time Warner Loses Court Battle Over North Kansas City Fiber
• Thorough GPON vs. EPON Comparison

December 2005

• Some GPON RFP Comments from Zhone CEO
• Verizon Fios Video Details
• More Info on Passave IPO Delay
• Salsgiver Selects Amedia Active Ethernet Equipment for FTTP Rollout
• Dublin-based Magnet Networks to Use Telcordia’s Network Planning Solution
• GPON vs. EPON: Quality of Service
• Poll Results: Which vendor will capture the most business from the recent RBOC Request for Proposals for GPON based systems?
• Verizon Fios Install Case Study with Lots of Photos
• NTT Proposes a New Approach to Reduce ONU Cost
• Cisco’s Plans for PON
• Note to Email and RSS Feed Subscribers
• More Expensive APD Receiver to be Used in GPON According to New FSAN Standard Update
• $21,000 for Each New FTTH Customer for Verizon?
• Wave7 Names Ciena Co-founder to the Board
• More on Broadlight and Passave

November 2005

• News from Japan: FTTH Taking Over DSL and Video over RF for GEPON
• Broadband Over Power Lines as a Backup Access Technology for FTTN
• FTTH Trial in Tasmania Delayed
• 135 km Extended Reach GPON Network Demonstrated by BT, Infinera, and Flexlight
• Emergining Application for All-Optical Switches in FTTx Deployments
• Major IT Infrastructure Announcement for Pusan, South Korea
• Corning to Supply Equipment and Services to Capitol Infrastructure for FTTH in Master Planned Communities
• New Report on the Japan FTTH Market from Research and Markets
• RBOC GPON Request for Proposals is in Vendor’s Hands
• Poll Results: FTTHblog Readers Think That GEPON is the Least Expensive Technology
• SBC Texas Will Invest $800 M for Project Lightspeed Following Favorable Legislation
• Broadlight Announces USD $10 M Funding Round
• FTTx Cost Modeling Service Offered by OFS
• Telstra Chooses Alcatel for the FTTx portion of its Network Transformation Project
• Optical Solutions Wins a Contract in Burlington, Vermont
• Corning Cable Systems Qualified by Rural Utilities Service
• Patent Watch: Patent Applications from Passave and MetroPhotonics
• FTTP to Multiple Dwelling Units from Tellabs
• Vote Split in Iowa on Creating Broadband Utilities
• Calix Acquires Optical Solutions
• Broadlight and Millinet GPON Partnership
• North Kansas City Expanding Fiber Network
• APA Wins Fiber Management Contract in Kentucky
• FTTH Innovations from Japanese Carrier NTT
• Bulloch Telephone Cooperative Selects ETI for Automated Provisioning of Its FTTP Network
• Fiberxon and Teknovus Partnership
• Wave7 Contract with Comporium Communications
• SBC Completes Project Lightspeed Field Trial
• FTTH in China
• Passave Delays IPO
• Patent Watch: Optical transceiver for compensating for loss due to transmission distance in passive optical network
• Amsterdam FTTH Announcement
• New EPON Test Capabilities from Agilent
• QUESTIONS ABOUT GPON
• UTSTARCOM’S TAKE ON ADVANTAGES OF GEPON
• SBC IPTV PLANS
• EMTELLE WINS SWISSCOM CONTRACT
• FTTH IN FRANCE

October 2005

• TELLABS COMMENTS ON GPON AND PRICING
• RIVERSTONE AND PACKETFRONT PARTNER ON ACTIVE ETHERNET FTTP
• FTTP COMES TO MONGOLIA
• EXCELLENT SERIES ON MUNICIPAL BROADBAND
• VERIZON TOUTS JOBS CREATED BECAUSE OF STATE ISSUED VIDEO FRANCHISE
• HDTV OVER IP VIA FTTH IN CA
• SPONSORED POST: INTRODUCING SPONSORED POSTS
• DEPLOYMENT OF FTTH BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES
• LUCENT MULTIMEDIA ACCESS PLATFORM
• COMPARISON OF BROADLIGHT AND PASSAVE
• GPON VS. EPON COST COMPARISON
• LATEST GPON ROUNDUP
• ADC WINS CONTRACT FOR OUTSIDE PLANT FIBER OPTIC CABLE MANAGEMENT WITH ARVIG COMMUNICATIONS
• OPTICAL SOLUTIONS WINS CONTRACT WITH TELEPAK IN MISSISSIPPI
• CABLE BITRATES WILL SOON RIVAL FTTH
• SALIRA ANNOUNCES A IEEE 802.3AH COMPLIANT GE-PON PLATFORM
• HITACHI WINS FIRST US GPON FTTH CONTRACT
• More on Optical Entertainment Network Strategy
• RBOC Request for Proposals Technical Details
• More Speculation on the GPON RBOC RFP
• Wave7 and UtiliCor FTTx Utility and Municipality Partnership
• Request for Proposals for FTTx Network in the Paris Suburbs
• More on the RF Video Receiver Chip from TriAccess
• ABCs of IPTV
• WDM-PON FTTH Service Initiated by Korea Telecom
• Quanta Services Partners with Corning on FTTH Installation
• Updated List of FTTH Communities
• Corning Cable Systems Patent Application for NID Connector Port
• Optical Entertainment Network Announcement
• Optical Solutions Adds VoIP Support
• New FTTH Data from Render Vanderslice
• Pulaski Electric is Second Customer for the Wave7 Trident7 PON Platform
• Morristown Utility Commission Chooses Alcatel
• Hitachi Telecom Intros GPON Systems
• Infonetics Report on PON Markets
• NeoPhotonics Intros Ultra-Compact PLC Splitter for FTTH
• TriAccess technologies Comes out of Stealth to Intro FTTP Video Receiver Chip
• Falcon Broadband Becomes First Customer for Wave7 Trident7 FTTP Platform
• 10,000 FTTP Customers for Jackson Energy
• Construction About to Start on Victoria, Australia Fiber Network

September 2005

• Leviton and Hitachi Demo at the FTTH Conference
• Flexlight Moves to Silicon Valley and Appoints New CEO
• GPON Request for Proposal from US Carriers
• New PON Platform from Wave7 Optics
• New Report on the Ethernet in the First Mile Standard
• New BPON Optical Network Terminal from Terawave
• Verizon Making Progress on Video
• Tobacco Settlement Money Used for Southside Regional Broadband Initiative Fiber Network
• Crosslake Communications Chooses APA Cable for FTTH Fiber Management
• Verizon Opening Fiber Solutions Center in Providence
• Strategic Partnership Between Teknovus and Fiberxon
• Optical Termination Pedestal Patent Application from Corning
• Is the Customer Not Ready for FTTH?
• Optical Solutions Delivers GPON FTTH Equipment to Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative
• Installation of Fiber Optic Cable in a Building Having a Gas Riser
• APA Cables Wins Contract with Paul Bunyan for FTTH Project
• More Verizon Fios Installation Problems
• Hitachi FTTP Receives Rural Utilities Service Acceptance
• Las Vegas Suburb Pahrump to Deploy FTTH
• ADC Signs Distribution Partner for FTTx Products
• Qwest to Provide FTTH Service to South Jordan’s Daybreak Development in Utah
• FTTH for Sierra Ridge Development in Country Club Hills, IL
• Open Access FTTH Network in Vasteras Sweden Wins Award
• WDM-PON Trial by Korea Telecom
• EPON Encryption and Monolithic Triplexer Patents
• Benefits of Pre-connectorized Fiber Cables for Installation
• FTTH Lifting Korean Fiber Optic Cable Makers out of Doldrums
• Community Fiber Network for Northern Vermont
• Will Bell South Replace or Repair New Orleans Comms Network
• KMI Research European Optical Networking Conference
• PON Upgrade with Spectral-Shaping Line-Coding Service Overlay
• FTTx Fusion Splicer from Furukawa
• IEEE Advocates Ultra-Fast Fiber Open Access Networks
• Review of Verizon Fios from a Network World Columnist
• Teknovus to Deploy EPON Chipsets in Japan
• New Round of Funding for Wave7 Optics
• Zero dB Joins Corning Total Access Program
• Why Carriers Should Encourage Municipal Fiber Networks
• Slab Waveguide Patent Application
• Hitachi Joins Multimedia over Coax Alliance
• FTTH Outpacing DSL in Japan
• Scandanavia - South Korea WDM PON Connection?
• Success in Dalton, GA
• Verizon Awarded Video Franchise in California
• APA Wins Contract in Central Georgia
• Scientific Atlanta Wins Contract for Optical Nodes
• PacketFront
• Apogee and Vitesse Team Up for 10-Gbit transceiver design
• New Contract for ALcatel in Spain
• FTTH for Business in Thailand
• 3M Achieves Verizon Accreditation
• Patent Application for Performance Monitoring
• Network Dynamics to Provide Tech Support for Wave7
• Which Flavor of FTTx to Deploy?
• Are Cable Providers Falling Behind in Technology?
• Berlin Access
• Deutsche Telecom Jumps In
• Flexlight Wins Contract in China

August 2005

• New Patent Issued to NEC
• Broadband World Forum Asia DVD
• Telcordia Forming the Hardened Optic Connector Interoperability Forum
• New Report on the PON Market
• GPON and EPON Convergence?
• Information of Vitesse Products for FTTx
• Recent Work on the GPON Standard
• Presence of UTOPIA Drives Down Internet Access Charges
• Alcatel Supplies GPON Systems to Kuwait
• APA Cables Wins Contract for Fiber Cabinets in North Carolina
• New Funding Round for Teknovus
• New Contract for Optical Solutions in Georgia
• Fios for High-Rise Buildings
• VDSL2 and FTTx
• Nortel Chief Sounds the Alarm
• Future Directions for EPON
• British Telecom FTTH Trial Bandwidth Increased
• New Webinars from the FTTH Council
• There is Money in FTTH
• Rural Utilities Service Approval for Charles Industries
• New FTTH Verification Software
• Planar L