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Posted on 05.17.07
As usual,every article in the March 2007 issue of Broadband Properties magazine has useful FTTH information. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.14.07
Here’s a quote from Verizon Fios engineer Brian Whitton regarding symmetrical FTTH service: "Our products are carefully crafted based on feedback we get from our customers. Indeed, our FTTP network can easily support a symmetric data service. As market dynamics change, we would re-assess the benefit to our customers of introducing a class of symmetric data services." Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.10.07
At the ongoing Cable TV conference, delegates are touting the imminent arrival of the Docsis 3.0 standard for cable modems which will allow access speeds of up to 160 Mbps using channel bonding.
Quoted from Lightreading:
"The cable industry could go out and fully deploy Docsis 3.0 for a couple billion dollars, an amount you could find leftover in Bill Gates’s couch,” said Comcast’s Craddock. “With that investment, we could blanket the entire U.S. footprint with 160 Mbit/s capability in a couple years. Verizon is going to spend ten times as much to cover 14 percent of U.S. homes. FiOS is something my grandson has to worry about.” Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.09.07
Freescale Semiconductor has announced its first standard GPON product, the MSC7120 controller. The chip targets GPON gateways and other client-side applications. Freescale and Alcatel-Lucent, the dominant supplier of GPON equipment worldwide, initiated joint development of the MSC7120 after the companies agreed in 2005 to collaborate on delivering compatible and interoperable GPON technology to the market. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.08.07
Conexant Systems, a provider of semiconductor solutions for broadband communications, has introduced a family of system-on-chips (SoCs) for gigabit and gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (GPON/GE-PON) residential gateway applications. The GPON and the GE-PON devices are targeted at optical network units (ONUs) that are used on the client-side of fiberto- the-premises (FTTP) networks. The Xenon-III product family comes bundled with an open source-based Linux board support package. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.07.07
Motorola has introduced Cable PON, a technology approach that delivers Passive Optical Network (PON) solutions customized to accommodate existing cable infrastructures. Cable PON, a y cable-driven technology, delivers the benefits of combined Hybrid-Fiber-Coaxial (HFC) and PON network architectures. "Hybrid networks are not new to the cable industry, but this cable-operated fiber approach is unique in both its cost-effective nature and its ability to create a migration path to future GPON FTTP deployments," said Kevin Keefe, vice president of marketing and business development, Motorola Connected Home Solutions.Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.07.07
Teknovus, a provider of Gigabit Ethernet Optical Network (G-EPON) chips for the deployment of triple-play services in FTTH (Fiber To The Home) and FTTB (Fiber To the Business) has announced that Fiberhome’s FTTH system is being used as a benchmark for testing and deployment by China Telecom. Fiberhome is a provider of FTTH solutions in China and has designed their solution based on Teknovus’ chipsets. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.04.07
In this Telecommunications Magazine article David Cleary, VP of Advanced Technology at Calix, details the process of setting standards for GPON interoperability among vendors and talks about lessons learned from BPON interoperability. While a great deal of worthwhile work was done, BPON interoperability did not fully realize the ‘Lego blocks’ goal. Instead of full interoperability the results were more limited. Discrete pairs of BPON suppliers interoperated, but often they required customized software loads for each optical line terminal (OLT)/optical network terminal (ONT) pairing. Filed under: Technology and Standards Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.04.07
This article in Telecommunications magazine summarizes the current state of FTTH buildout with a focus on the US and emerging technologies: Construction of FTTH (Fiber To The Home) networks is emerging from the early prototype stage to a period of large-scale growth and expansion. The FTTH Council reports that about 1.3 million households are connected by fiber now of which about half are subscribers to Verizon’s FiOS service. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.03.07
TXP Corporation , an Original Design Manufacturer of ITU standard GPON Optical Network Terminals (ONTs), has announced the launch of a new family of mini-size, Power over Ethernet based GPON ONTs. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.30.07
In January, an aerial installation was completed using Emtelle’s fibreflow aerial blown fibre solution. The installation was conducted in Queanbeyan, just outside Canberra, Australia. Approximately 4,000m of fibreflow blown fibre aerial tube bundle was installed by Country Energy, an Australian energy utility. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.24.07
Novera Optics has announced that Japan’s KDDI R&D Laboratories has finished lab trial testing on Novera’s λ -PON (Lambda-PON) DWDM technology as part of a feasibility study to examine the technology’s ability to deliver next-generation transport services. "Novera’s DWDM technology tested very positively in our lab trials," reports Dr. Yukio Horiuchi, senior manager of the Optical Access Network Laboratory in KDDI R&D Laboratories. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.03.07
Verizon has announced that it will begin deploying GPON FTTH systems from Alcatel-Lucent in the second quarter, with customers in Lewisville, TX and Kirklyn, PA being the first. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 02.20.07
Enablence Technologies a developer of Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Transceivers for optical modems, has announced that its large volume production line with Sanmina-SCI has become operational. Enablence uses planar lightwave circuit technology for its components. This announcement validates the technology’s poetnial for FTTH. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.20.07
As part of a project sponsored by the European Union, a research team from Siemens Networks was able to transmit error-free at a data transmission rate of 10 gigabits per second via a passive optical access network. This is four times faster than the rate previously possible. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.13.07
Alcatel-Lucent and Freescale have announced their plan to facilitate the adoption of fiber-to-the-home technologies by making available jointly-developed GPON technology and interoperability specifications to vendors of terminal equipment worldwide. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.13.07
This Lightwave article solicits opinions from industry players on whether major Chinese carriers will go with GPON or EPON to upgrade access lines. Filed under: Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.06.07
French carrier Iliad, responsible for FTTH rollouts in and around Paris claims that Active Ethernet point-to-point networks are a more robust solution than point-to-multipoint networks (BPON, GPON). “Fibre is going to be around for the next 30 to 50 years and so we need to get the FTTH architecture right from day one,” says Dominique Lancrenon, chairman of the management board at CiteFibre. Filed under: Technology Comments: 6 Comments |
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Posted on 01.26.07
Telephony reports that Verizon is projected to add 1.1 M Fios subscribers in 2007. In addition Verizon is that to deploy a new Optical Network Terminal with multi-subscriber capability for multiple dwelling units. A more aggressive push into MDUs is now possible thanks to new optical network terminals (ONTs) that serve multiple customers, a Verizon spokesman said. Verizon has completed lab testing of its vendors’ MDU ONTs–which were unavailable a year ago Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.26.07
This quote from a Converge Digest article on AT&T quarterly earnings report: Whitacre said the current network architecture of using fiber-to-the-node and then copper for the last leg into customer homes is in fact delivering the bandwidth expected and that the company is not planning to adopt an FTTH architecture for its existing footprint. The company is still evaluating its strategy in the former BellSouth territory, where there is significant amount of fiber already deployed to neighborhoods. Filed under: Business and Technology Comments: None |
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