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Posted on 10.24.07
Alcatel-Lucent (Alca-Lu) has been selected by Icelandic fixed line incumbent Siminn to supply its gigabit passive optical network (GPON) fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.04.07
The number of households in the US with fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections has now reached 2.14mn, representing 2% of all homes in the country, according to a new study by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.11.07
Telstra, the Australian carrier is slowly rolling out FTTH: As part of its Telstra Smart Community agreement, the telco is rolling out fibre to the home (FTTH) to about 1800 homes at a development being built by Lend Lease at Rouse Hill in Sydney’s northwest. The first customers are expected to be connected in early 2008…. Last October, Telstra Country Wide group managing director Geoff Booth revealed that Queensland and Northern Territory developers were paying Telstra between $3500 and $5000 per lot for FTTH connections. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.11.07
Wave7 Optics and SPIE Communications have announced that the Trident7 Optical Access Platform has been selected for a new municipal network called SEQUANTIC, which is slated to begin service in October 2007. This new point-to-multipoint network is a project initiated by the SIPPEREC public consortium, which represents the electricity and telecommunications interests of approximately 1.7 million residential, commercial and industrial customers located in 86 municipalities around Paris. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.15.07
Palo Alto Online reports that a partner in Palo Alto’s broadband efforts has acquired an unsuccesful bidder for the project: PacketFront is a partner of 180 Connect, which was selected by the City Council in January to work with the city to investigate developing a fiber network. DynamicCity also submitted a bid for the project, but its submittal was deemed "non-responsive" because it would have the city bear all the financial risk with the approximately $41 million project.
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Posted on 08.15.07
Alcatel-Lucent has announced it has been selected by TransACT Capital Communications, a Canberra-based telecommunications carrier, to complete a fibre to the home (FTTH) rollout to new greenfield sites in Canberra. The network will cover 1,000 premises and an anticipated population of 2,500 people by 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.01.07
I’m on vacation most of July so posting will be slow. -Eugene Filed under: Uncategorized 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 06.07.07
PacketFront has announced that it has built an open access fiber optic network for Swedish city network operator, Sundbybergs Stadsnät. The new metro network already reaches 10,000 households and 500 businesses in Sundbyberg, a municipality just outside of Stockholm. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.31.07
PMC-Sierra has announced that its Fiber to the Home (FTTH) solution is now deployed in more than four million Gigabit EPON Optical Network Units (ONUs). also… in Korea, PMC-Sierra and DASAN Networks recently announced a Korea Telecom contract for expected deployment of 800,000 EPON ONUs this year in Seoul. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.29.07
In order to provide information on FTTH markets/technology that will allow FTTHBlog readers to be more effective at their jobs, I’m soliciting advice on what questions would you like FTTHBlog to answer that aren’t being answered right now by other sources. I received useful advice from a previous inquiry posting. This is a followup. You can leave your reply as a comment to this post or email to info@optoxchange.com. Many Thanks, Eugene Rudkevich Filed under: Uncategorized Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.22.07
HP has announced that it has teamed with Cisco and MidtVest Bredbaand (MVB), a Denmark-based broadband provider, to build a high-speed, fiber-to-the-home network for the delivery of advanced services. MVB’s Content Denmark subsidiary will deliver services to more than 200,000 customers. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.01.07
With its quarterly earnings report, Verizon has released some new uptake numbers for its Fios FTTH service: It added 416,000 new broadband customers in the first quarter, including 177,000 new FiOS customers, taking its total retail fiber access customer base to 864,000. The FiOS FTTH network now passes 6.8 million homes, with Verizon planning to pass 9 million by the end of this year. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.03.07
Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc., has announced that Ledcor Technical Services (LTS) and ComSpan-Bandon Networks will bring the fiber optic network that is now operating in Bandon, Oregon to the town of Coquille. Coquille is a town of approximately 4,000 on the Coquille River, about 17 miles inland from Bandon. Construction has already begun, with completion planned for the third quarter, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.12.07
Independent French carrier Neuf-Cegetel is planning to pass 1 million homes with FTTH by 2009 in the Paris region. This Lightwave article has the details. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.12.07
This quote from a Telecommunications Online article on Iceland Telecom: But he would not be drawn on the scale of the investment in that technology and content, other than saying that capex was ‘considerable’. Siminn is also investing in an FTTH rollout – certain to boost those costs even more. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.27.07
The Salt Lake Tribune reports the the iProvo municipal fiber network is facing technical and financial difficulties. Apparently a fraction of the 96 fiber cable strands are malfunctioning and causing the repair bills to mount. The result is that the network is in the red and is draining the city’s budget. Filed under: Uncategorized and Municipal Broadband Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 02.13.07
Telephony Online reports that analysts at Pike & Fischer investment firm believe that AT&T will alter its access technology mix toward FTTH in the next 12-18 months. In a report, “AT&T U-verse: Analysis of the Business Strategy,” released yesterday, Tim McElgunn, chief analyst for Pike & Fischer’s Broadband Advisory Services, said AT&T is likely to alter its strategy in the next 12 to 18 months and begin investing more heavily in its access networks. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.08.07
Light Reading reports on San Francisco’s plans for a FTTH network to complement its WI-Fi network. So far the FTTH network is in the early planning stages. Filed under: Uncategorized and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.08.07
Ottawa Business Journal reports that Canadian FTTH component vendor Enablence Technoloiges is planning to raise $15 Million in a private offering. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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