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Posted on 02.08.07
Light Reading reports that France Telecom has a request for proposals out for GPON access equipment. Alcatel Lucent stands as the favorite to win this business with ECI Telecom, Ericsson, and Sagem SA also in the running. FT is "planning to spend €270 million (US$351 million) on a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) buildout during the next two years." Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.08.07
Quoting from post: BT has announced a … fibre to the home (FTTH) deal with UK real estate investment trust Land Securities and British Sky Broadcasting…Ebbsfleet Valley … covers 1,000 acres with 9,500 new homes.BT will provide next-generation access network and end user connectivity through FTTH technology,Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 01.26.07
MRV COMMUNICATIONS, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fiberxon, Inc., a supplier of transceivers for Metro, Access, and PON applications. The consideration from MRV to Fiberxon shareholders is approximately $131 million in a combination of cash and stock. Following the closing of the transaction, MRV intends on combining Fiberxon with Luminent, its wholly-owned subsidiary. Filed under: Uncategorized Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.23.07
Dongwon, a supplier of optical communications equipment in Korea and Teknovus, a provider of Gigabit Ethernet Optical Network (G-EPON) chipsets for deployment of triple-play services in broadband access networks, have announced that Korea Telecom (KT) has selected the Dongwon Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) solution, based on Teknovus’ chips, for a "major" deployment throughout Korea. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.16.07
A study performed by the Dynamic Cities consultancy has concluded that group of 14 northern Minnesota communities would not be able to achieve profitability if they were to build a municipal FTTH network. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.17.06
Telecommunications Online has this quote from Paul Reynolds, CEO of BT Wholesale at the 2006 DigWorld Conference: “I really don’t see a business case for widespread FTTH. It is not immediately apparent where the incremental revenue would come from that investment.” Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.17.06
informationpolitics recently posted some European FTTH statistics that Hartwig Tauber of the Europe FTTH Council presented at a recent conference: (i) only 4 European countries (Denmark, Sweden, Italy and the Netherlands) have any real fibre to the home deployments; (ii) rates of current and planned FTTH deployments in Asia and North America are much higher than in Europe; and (iii) most — 2/3rds — of European FTTH deployments are municipal or utility-driven. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.16.06
According to Hiro-Michi Shinohara was speaking for Japanese carrier NTT on FTTH uptake in Japan : “It’s not so much applications but prices that are driving growth,” he said, “as well as high quality voice.” NTT packages its FTTH data and voice package only marginally higher than its ADSL-based package — €43 per month for 100Mbps, which includes €3 for the ‘Hikari-denwa’ optical telephone service, which comprises two lines and five telephone numbers (geographically assigned). The ADSL package is €37 per month. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.15.06
"The number of subscribers to FTTH (Fiber To The Home) services in Japan increased 88% in 2005, reaching 5.4 million at the end of March, 2006 contributing to steady growth of optical access network systems market of 76.2 billion Yen (approx. 645 million US dollars) in terms of sales in 2005," as revealed in a report published by Yano Research Institute a marketing research firm in Japan. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.03.06
In March 2006, chipmaker PMC-Sierra acquired Israeli startup Passave, a developer of EPON chips and a vendor to the largest Japanese PON equipment makers. In this article, Robert Yung, the CTO of Passave, gives an interview that is mainly focused on the Passave acquisition. Here’s a quote: In the past two years, I’ve seen 400 technology start-ups in the US and China. Passave was special. In addition, the number of companies that have working products in the field can be counted on the fingers of one hand. There are a few dozen companies in the development stage. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.02.06
Fi-ra Photonics Co. Ltd, 50.1% owned subsidiary of Ignis ASA, has received a USD 1.2 million order for delivery of optical splitters to Samsung in Korea. The splitters will be used in Korea Telecom’s roll-out of a passive optical network (PON). Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.02.06
This brief article (in Dutch) states that the company GNEM is considering building a Euro 75 million FTTH network in the Dutch city of Arnhem to serve 66,000 subscribers. A cost feasibility study will be done first. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.25.06
Blaming a Verizon "inventory correction" Tellabs reported that revenue from access products was down 15% sequentially in the latest quarter. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 10.24.06
Alloptic has announced that El Tamarindo Resort and Spa has deployed the Alloptic GEPON FTTH solution. El Tamarindo is using the Alloptic solution to provide voice, data, video, building automation and security services throughout the resort. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.20.06
McClure Telephone Company in Henry County, Ohio USA will use $6.167 million in funding from the USDA Rural Development’s Broadband Access and Telecommunications Program to build an FTTP network providing service to 245 data, 808 voice and 256 video subscribers. Filed under: Uncategorized and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.16.06
News.com has published an updated version of their municipal broadband projects map, including FTTH. A description for each state lists the FTTH projects. Filed under: Uncategorized and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.11.06
French Minister for Industry François Loos has announced that he wants service providers to provision 4M FTTH Connections by 2012. Loos will have little difficulty persuading French telecommunications operators to help him reach his goal. France Télécom’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Didier Lombard was next on stage. He said of the minister’s target, "I think we will do better than that."
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Posted on 10.11.06
Occam Networks has announced that Ben Lomand Telephone Co-op, Inc., one of Tennessee’s largest independent operating companies (IOCs), has selected Occam Networks to provide Triple Play services to its customers. Ben Lomand will also soon trial Occam’s BLC 6312 blade as part of a project to offer Active Ethernet fiber to the home. Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.09.06
According to Jim Baller, widely considered the top municipal broadband legal advocate, the regulatory environmnent is beginning to look more positive for municipal broadband. Verizon and AT&T are taking a less combative approach and legal cases have been won recently. Also, "According to Render Vanderslice & Associates, municipalities and utilities serve 7% of the fiber-to-the-premises subscribers in North America today." Filed under: Uncategorized and Regulatory Environment and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.04.06
TXP Corporation has announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Siemens to acquire the assets and intellectual property for its Optical Network Terminal (ONT) technology, supporting both Broadband Passive Optical Network (BPON) and Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) standards. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business Comments: 3 Comments |
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