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Posted on 06.20.07
In a Reuters UK article detailing AT&T’s U-Verse plans was this bit: Analysts have said installation technicians are in short supply, with Verizon also hiring as it builds out its network. Carey expects average installation times to shorten as technicians become more experienced. While the average was now around 7 to 8 hours, seasoned technicians can finish in around 4 to 5 hours, he said. AT&T said this month the pace of U-Verse deployment was picking up, with average installations of about 600 per day, compared to the figure of about 500 homes per day it gave at the end of last month.
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Posted on 06.20.07
Connexion Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent have announced that Connexion has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s Fiber to the Home (FTTH) solution to offer services to 20 master-planned communities across the United States. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.20.07
Verizon has announced that more than 1 million homes and businesses now subscribe to the Verizon Fios FTTH service. Also, out of the 1 million, 500,000 subscribe to the Fios TV service. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.19.07
The US department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program has provided a USD $38M loan for a open access FTTH network in West Virginia. When completed, the ITown Communications Project estimates that 12,624 homes and 1,124 businesses in the regionwill have high-speed internet access — but has the capacity to expand and provide over 33,000 homes and 2,200 businesses with broadband access. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.18.07
According to Converge Digest, AT&T has selected Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson to provide GPON FTTH equipment for greenfield developments as part of its U-Verse network rollout. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.18.07
Telus, Canada’s second-largest telecommunications company has published its FTTH plans in its annual report: In 2007, TELUS expects to continue field trials of fibre to the home (FTTH) technologies utilizing standards-based gigabit passive optical network (GPON) technology. FTTH is one of several competing proposed FTTx standards (where x stands for home, curb, pedestal or neighbourhood) in development that TELUS is actively monitoring. Fibre to the curb (FTTC) with an Ethernet connection to the premises, which facilitates sustained transfers of up to 100 Mbps and peak transfers up to one gigabit per second (Gbps), may be a more practical technology to deploy in new green field neighbourhoods or multiple dwelling units than the current copper loops. In addition, TELUS is exploring business models for the economical deployment of fibre-based technologies in areas currently connected by copper. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts and Municipal Broadband Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 06.18.07
Andrew Schmitt writes about the new Linley Group report on FTTH silicon market share. According to the report the market grew 20% over the last year in dollar terms and Andrew estimates that shipments grew 50%. Here’s some data that Linley shared with Andrew Schmitt: We estimate the total merchant market for PON ICs was about $90 million in 2006, up 20% from 2005. We estimate PMC-Sierra had a share of about 60%, and we rank Teknovus and BroadLight second and third, respectively. A host of other vendors accounted for the rest of the market. In alphabetic order, these suppliers include Centillium, Conexant, Freescale, and Immenstar. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.15.07
Armstrong, located in Butler, PA, has selected the Alloptic PON product as its fiber-to-the-home technology, with the first major project starting in Butler County. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.15.07
This article in Light Reading reports that sources within Verizon state to the effect: "installation times can average as much as nine hours on the east coast (Verizon’s classic RBOC footprint) versus four hours in the western U.S. (the former GTE properties). The lion’s share of the install time is for in-home wiring." The source also speculates that the disparity os due to union vs. non-union labor. However, commenters on the article disagree. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.13.07
Zhone announced 3 customers on same day as it released its new GPON Multi-Service Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) Platform:
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Posted on 06.13.07
In an EETimes.com article about a new dual-core PON chip from Broadlight, is this piece of information: Director of marketing Dan Parsons said the gigabit PON market is splitting into two distinct segments. When the carrier puts network termination on the side of the house, the termination chip should be a simple transceiver device. But when it is embedded in a residential gateway, end users want a single system-on-chip to perform security, Wi-Fi access point, router and firewall duties. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.13.07
This article in a Virginia newspaper details the complaints of Communications Workers of America, a Verizon employee union, stating that the copper telephone plant is rapidly deteriorating since Verizon is putting most of its resources in a new FTTH network: The workers say they are being told to apply Band-Aid repairs to major problems or can’t get them fixed at all. The preventative maintenance program has been abandoned. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.13.07
According to Q107 data from the Japan Ministry of Communications: In the three months to end-March 222,668 DSL lines were lost, compared to a net gain of 863,499 connections for FTTH. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.11.07
This information was provided by a reader. On May 25, this post was published: PacketFront has signed a contract with Norway’s largest power utility company, Hafslund, to build an open access FTTH network in Østlandet, the area in and around Oslo. Turns out that this is a big deal since: 1. In population terms Ostlandet covers about 50% of all of 4.6 million inhabitants. And apparantly those > 2 million people all will get open FttH 2. Hafslund is an energy corp listed on the Oslo stock exchange. 53.72% of the shares is owned by one the Muinicipality of Oslo. http://www.hafslund.no/files/File/engelsk/aksjonrer/aksjonerer_eng_may_07.pdf So more than half of Norway’s population is set to get open access FTTH?Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.07.07
O-Net Communications (Shenzhen) Ltd., a fiber optic component and module supplier, has announced that it was awarded a significant contract for 2 years to supply PON WDM filter components to Asia Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband access market. The customer was not disclosed. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.07.07
In this Lightwave article, David Mies, a marketing manager at Corning Cable Systems presents the results of a study comparing DSL- connected homes and FTTH-connected homes in Keller, TX:
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Posted on 06.06.07
Corning Cable Systems has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Alcatel-Lucent to supply the company with its environmentally hardened connector and adapter for use in Alcatel-Lucent’s gigabit passive optical network (GPON) system. The Corning Cable Systems OptiTap Connector and Adapter provide the ideal solution for factory-terminated, environmentally sealed and hardened connectors for use in drop cable deployments in optical access networks. The hardened connector significantly reduces the terminal and drop cable installation time for subscriber connection, thereby reducing the total installed cost of deployment. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.05.07
This information from a new Lightcounting report on the transceiver market: [optical transceiver] market growth between now and 2010 will be primarily driven by deployment of FTTx modules and transceivers in telecommunications Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.05.07
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that NRGi Fibernet, a subsidiary of Århus Power Utility in Denmark, has selected its triple play service delivery architecture as the basis for a roll-out of voice, video and data services for Århus - Denmark’s second largest city by September 2007. GPON architecture will be used for the FTTH part of the contract. Also this blurb at the end of the press release: Alcatel-Lucent is also engaged in more than 60 FTTx projects around the world, more than 30 of which are with GPON. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.05.07
Teknovus, a provider of Gigabit Ethernet Optical Network (G-EPON) chipsets has announced that Chunghwa Telecom has selected Teknovus for Chunghwa’s FTTH (Fiber To The Home) deployment. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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