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Posted on 09.24.07
Wave7 Optics is announcing the installation of new FTTH networks in the Orlando area for Orlando Business Telephone Services (OBTS) and its sister company Orlando Telephone Company (OTC). For this project, OBTS and OTC have selected the Trident7 Platform, deployed in its EPON FTTP configuration, to connect initially more than 1600 homes and apartments. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.14.07
The Walthom Group of Clayton, developer of Portofino (a North Carolina housing development), has reached an agreement with its builders to provide Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) technology to every home in the new community. A service of EMBARQ, FTTP will provide fiber optic cable directly into every home in the Portofino neighborhood. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 09.14.07
The cooperative service provider, La Communauté d’Agglomération du Havre (CODAH), has selected ACOME to deploy a fiber to the home (FTTH) network in Gonfreville-l’Orcher, France. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.12.07
UTStarcom, Inc. has announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with Bell & Tell, Pvt. Ltd., to offer bundled voice and data services in Pakistan using UTStarcom’s Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GEPON) and VoIP technologies. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts 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
This article details the Telus FTTH trial: The trial, slated to start this fall and wrap up in the middle of 2008, will be on a small scale. Telus aims to sign up just over 1,000 customers across Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, along with some spots in Quebec where it also sells Internet service. Jim Johannsson, a spokesman for Burnaby, B.C.-based Telus, stressed that it is a technological test rather than a market trial.
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Posted on 09.11.07
Nexans has signed a two-year frame agreement with AB Stokab, the owner of Stockholm’s ‘Citynet’ broadband infrastructure, to deliver fibre optical equipment worth approximately 1 million euro for the city’s FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) programme. Filed under: Business 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 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 09.06.07
Slovakian mobile network operator , Orange Slovensko, has announced the commercial launch of triple-play fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services. Orange has earmarked investment of SKK1 billion (USD40 million) this year to roll out a FTTH broadband network covering around 200,000 households in ten cities. It piloted triple-play services to around 15,000 residential users in the first half of this year. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.04.07
Fibers.org has published an overview of Ignis Photonyx, a maker of planar lightwave circuits for FTTH and long-haul markets. Here’s the part that got my attention: Ignis … reported revenues of NOK167 m (€21 m) in the first quarter of 2007, an increase of more than €18 m on the same period last year. And net income rose to €2.1 m, reversing a loss of €1.2 m in the first quarter of 2006. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.04.07
A summary of a Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications report on broadband is presented at Nyquist Capital. Here’s a quote: "By the end of 2010, Japan expects to achieve 100% Broadband coverage, 90% of which will be ultra-high speed. The country currently has 95% coverage with 80% ultra high speed. " Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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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 09.04.07
Light Reading Europe article: "The crucial first phase of one of Europe’s most ambitious Fibre To The Home (FTTH) undertakings, Amsterdam CityNet, is on target and is expected to be completed by mid-2008"…"The first Amsterdam areas to have the broadband infrastructure installed are the districts of Zeeburg, Oost/Watergraafsmeer and Osdorp, a total of 40,000 houses and buildings." Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.31.07
French carrier Iliad has announced that it will launch its "Free" FTTH service in mid. September in 2 Paris districts. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.29.07
180 Connect has announced that it has been awarded by the City of Palo Alto, California and the Truckee Donner Public Utility District, California the contracts to develop the fiber-to-the-home ("FTTH") and municipal fiber networks for those communities. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts 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 08.29.07
The Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications is in talks with Telekom Malaysia to provide high speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) links in selected urban areas to increase broadband penetration in Malaysia. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.21.07
Mauritius, an island nation off the east coast of Africa may get island-wide FTTH: According to reports from the African Press Agency, from 2008 all Mauritian homes will be able to connect to the internet via a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network being proposed by United Communications Limited (UCL). Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts Comments: None |
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