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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
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 09.07.07
John Quist, vice president of Dutch carrier KPN, had the following comment in an interview: “We’re transforming to a full IP network,” Quist explained. “This will involved a combination for fibre to the kerb (FTTK) and fibre to the home (FTTH). FTTH will be done with newbuild homes and business parks while in existing homes and buildings we will look at FTTK using VDSL technology.” He said that once KPN has finalised its migration it will no longer need central operations and can sell off real-estate. “All services we have now and that are considered the traditional mainstay of telecom operators such as voice will migrate to IP. Traditional telephony as we know it won’t exist after the transformation.” Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.06.07
This AP story profiles the installation of Verizon’s Fios FTTH service at a reporter’s home. The reporter is happy with the service save for an unfortunate incident during install: "When Verizon runs fiber to your house, the company needs to install a box on an inside wall. It was in drilling through a wall to connect that box to a fiber conduit that our installer hit an electrical wire. That knocked the power out and left our electrical box — and the front of the house — smoking. The technicians compounded this error by insisting that we pay for the electrical repairs, then bill them. We’d be reimbursed in 30 days, they assured us. My wife was having none of that. Verizon’s insurance company cut us a check for the $2,650 repair within days."
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Posted on 09.04.07
Enablence has demonstrated an operational Fiber-to-the-Home system using its Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) based Transceiver. The demonstration was the first public display of triple-play services running on a truly integrated PLC-based Transceiver inside a commercially available Fiber-to-the-Home system. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.29.07
Even Zimmer and Martin Boulanger of Ignys Photonics give a explanation of and a progress report on a standardized wavelength plan for WDM-PON in this Lightwave article. Filed under: Technology Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 08.13.07
Norwegian network operator and service provider Lyse Telecom offers a plan to its customers where they lay the last segment of the FTTH connection themselves in return for a savings in the installation fee: To keep costs down, subscribers can lay the last part of the network themselves. There’s a do-it-yourself kit, and they save €500 (US$630). Around 80% do the physical, self-provisioning part themselves. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: 3 Comments |
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Posted on 08.08.07
Market research firm iSuppli declares that copper VDSL technology will be around for 25 more years as operators try to squeeze life from the copper plant. The market intelligence firm believes the decline in demand for copper lines has been greatly overplayed and that operators are now finding it very expensive to roll out fibre-optic lines to customers’ homes. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.07.07
This Lightreading article profiles equipment manufacturer Commscope, which has taken an early lead in providing FTTP systems to cable operators. Although the economics can vary based on deployment densities, costs for installing BrightPath are within 20 percent of HFC new-builds, and about 50 percent better compared to the current PON-based scheme used by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ - message board), according to CommScope.Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.06.07
Ikanos Communications has announced that it is entering the \Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON)-based Fiber to the Home (FTTH) market. Ikanos has licensed GPON physical (PHY) layer technology with Ethernet Layer 2 functionality from Terawave Communications. Ikanos will use Terawave’s ITU-compliant GPON PHY technology to develop a GPON residential gateway reference platform. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.20.07
PacketFront, a provider of open-access active Ethernet FTTH equipment has announced it will have GPON products to complement active Ethernet by the first half of 2008. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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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 06.15.07
TXP, a contract manufacturer, has introduced a new architecture to power FTTH optical network terminals: PoA enables true no-new-wire FTTP installations as the subscriber’s conventional inside wiring, whether coax, twisted pair, or Cat 5, can now be used to power the ONT. PoA eliminates the "through the wall" power cabling carriers are performing today plus the time-consuming effort of getting each subscriber’s individual approval for the location of their UPS. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.13.07
At the upcoming SCTE Cable-Tec EXPO … Scientific Atlanta will also offer a look at a new DOCSIS® Passive Optical Network (D-PON) architecture to enable operators to deploy cable-centric/cable-friendly fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology that does not require the significant changes to network management necessary with earlier FTTH cable architectures. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.13.07
In an article about Zhone’s new GPON product, there was this bit regarding the two competing in-home broadband delivery standards MoCA and HomePNA: As for MoCA, the technology that Verizon has used to employ its customers’ existing coax, Presworsky said, “It looks like HomePNA has a big advantage. We heard a lot of negative [things about] MoCA–interference with other RF signals.” Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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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 06.06.07
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 06.01.07
Andrew Schmitt gives a chip and platform centric summary of global FTTH activity. GE-PON is strong in Asia and GPON is strong elsewhere. However, GE-PON numbers trump GPON. PMC-Sierra and Teknovus are major players in GE-PON space. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.31.07
TEO a Lithuanian telco services provider, is announcing the installation of the first in Lithuania fiber-optic network, the fibers of which will be installed up to the user’s computer. The fiber-optic network, which is being installed by TEO, is a novelty both in Lithuania and in the majority of European countries. Usually, optical fibers are installed up to a multi-family apartment house’s inlet box, from which copper cables are installed to residential apartments. Due to their physical characteristics, such copper cables limit the speed of data communication. TEO will install optical fibers up to the user’s apartment (computer) – that will allow increasing the speed of services provided to the customer up to 1 Gbps. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.30.07
This Broadband Propeties article profiles a FTTB installation in a greenfiled Florida highrise condo development. After a cost analysis was perfomed, it turned out that a GPON fiber installation cost 20% less than the coax cable alternative. Lots of installation photos are also provided: “When you mention fiber optics in the building, everyone sees a red flag; they think the cost will be astronomical. But when I did a cost analysis of triple-play services, I found out that wasn’t true. The cost of coax to the riser for video, phone, and Ethernet data is actually about 20 percent more than the cost of fiber, but a lot of people aren’t aware of this.”Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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