Friday, September 29, 2006

Yano Research Survey on FTTH Service and Market Outlook for Optical Transmission Devices

Delta partners with BroadLight for BPON and GPON transceivers

City of Palo Alto FTTH RFP (pdf)

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Alloptic Selected for 2,000 Home FTTH Project in Venezuela

Figuring FiOS

Fee Fi Fo Fios

Verizon: Fiber Net Is Pointed Towards Profitability

Fios Spending: $9,650 for Each Home?

City considers fiber optics cable (MN)

AT&T U-Verse HD In a 'Few Weeks'

Verizon's Answer to Wayne's World

Verizon Communications downgraded to "hold"

Verizon Provides New Financial and Operational Details on Its Fiber Network as Deployment Gains Momentum

Badges for FTTH, and Verizon gets the first

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Wave7 Introduces New Management System for FTTP

Verizon offers New Details on FiOS Service

Fulcrum and BroadLight Partner to Target Next-Generation GPON System Market (pdf)

Wave7 Thinks Mindspeed

Alphion Unveils FTTx Amplifiers

Verizon to Pump $18B Into FiOS by 2010

EXFO debuts FTTx-optimized Cable Assembly and Component Test System

Bell Canada drives consistent broadband over FTTN

NTCA Fall Conference: More Than a Touch of Glass

Last Mile Ethernet, Ohio Style

ECOC 2006: France Telecom Outlines GPON Strategy

ECOC 2006: ‘Europe Must Act Now to Make it Happen’

Fiber optic confusion

Fiber, Coax or DSL? Meeting Customer Demand for Bandwidth (pdf)

Broadband: You Need It. (pdf)

Fiber to the Home Council Introduces National Program to Certify Fiber-to-the-Home Broadband Connections

Wave7, EMBARQ team on FTTP deployment (OH)

Monday, September 25, 2006

Verizon Gets Trio of Final Franchise OKs

European municipalities lead FTTH charge

Verizon Celebrates FiOS TV's First Anniversary

Verizon planning local content unit

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Bangladesh Builds FTTH System

Salt Lake County coughed up $55 million for a soccer stadium, but Salt Lake City couldn’t set aside $70 million for a fiber-optic network

Summit Focuses on Broadband Growth in W.Va.

FiOS TV reaches Indiana

Draka Comteq announces BendBright fiber for FTTx applications

Ignis Warms Up to WDM-PONs

Brunei Looks To Japan To Boost Internet Services

Enablence Technologies and Ignis Photonyx Sign Supply Agreement

Enablence and Kotura Sign Cooperation Agreement (PDF)

Ignis Photonyx to Demo WDM-PON System at ECOC in Cannes; LG-Nortel System to Showcase Ignis' Access Products Allowing 100MB Per Home for Triple Play

Link3 taps Wave7 Optics for FTTH network in Bangladesh

Wave7 Supplies FTTP to Cayman Islands

Wave7 Deploys FTTH In Bangladesh

Report: Speed remains weapon of choice in broadband wars

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Glitches force Verizon to shoulder some Microsoft TV development work

Planting Fiber: Rural Iowa Telcos Pushing Triple Play

Ex-LUS plaintiff apologizes for delaying project

Fiber-to-the-Home Council Says Senate Bill Would Boost U.S. Fiber Networks

SLOW CONNECTION: Verizon steadily expands its cable TV service with town-by-town approach

Boucher: Net neutrality stalls broadband measure

Louisiana Municipal Association joins fiber court fight

La. Utility Continues Broadband Fight

Monday, September 18, 2006

Fiber to the Home: A World of Headaches for Comcast

Report: BellSouth outfitting some plant with VDSL2

VON: BellSouth plans major VDSL2 upgrade

AT&T inks first cable content deal

New Knoxville Telephone to Expand FTTP Network with Trident7 Optical Access Platform from Wave7 Optics

Friday, September 15, 2006

Broadband services to ­fuel fiber growth in Europe

European municipalities lead FTTH charge

How invisible should your FTTH network be?

GPON OLT

Bell Canada drives consistent broadband over FTTN

Making a Case for IPTV

PMC-Sierra intros analog front-end devices for GPON, EPON

Iliad Gets Active With FTTH

Telcos Edge Cable in Q2 Broadband Battle

VON: BellSouth plans major VDSL2 upgrade

Corecess Intros DWDM-PON

New Knoxville Telephone to expand FTTP network

PON chips can cut access network equipment costs

Verizon and DIRECTV Target MDUs

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules

Fibre knocks at McMansion doors

In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi Development Goes Ultra High Tech

Industry contemplates WDM-PON technology

OCP looks to Asian FTTH market as the way ahead

Japan experiences negative DSL growth as FTTH Soars

Nortel Teams with Telus for Multimedia Infrastructure

Iliad Chooses Draka Comteq for FTTH Network

Nokia to provide installation & integration services for Telus FTTN

Free to deploy FTTH Network; Open Network to Competition

FSAN Announces Successful Service Level GPON Interoperability

Telus to build FTTN Network

Utility district to begin another broadband survey

Louisiana City Takes Fiber Optic Fight to State's High Court

Iliad announces FTTH network in Paris and other French cities

Super-Fast Internet to Debut This Year

Full Spectrum and Bend-Insensitive Fiber Optimized for FTTx and Premises Applications (pdf)

Iliad Plans $1.3B Fiber Optic Network

AT&T to stream TV to Net users

Thursday, September 07, 2006

FTTH Council Committee Activities - September

Whole Home Networking: Video Changes the Game

FTTH Council Launches Service Provider User Group

2006 FTTH Conference & Expo

From the FTTH Council Chair, Diane Kruse

Politics squeezes effort on broadband (IL)

Fios's Weak Link: The Power Outage

Ultra-broadband forum Sept. 15 in Las Cruces

Quote of the day:

Ultra-broadband, also known as the Utah Telecommunications Infrastructure Agency Model or UTOPIA....

Congressman "Lights" Up Nickelsville Fiber Network

Telephony Webcast - The GPON Migration

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Verizon Expands Massachusetts Footprint

New Report: FTTx Modules And Components Market To Surpass $1.5 Billion In 2011

Teknovus Continues to Win Carrier Deployments in China; More Than 20 Chinese Provinces and Cities Embrace GEPON FTTH Solutions

Optical line termination, passive optical network, and method and apparatus for performance monitoring

Fiber-to-the-premise architectures

Note: "fiber to the premise" means "fiber to the assumption". The correct term is "fiber to the premises".

Lucent's Japanese services arm to resell Novera's WDM-PON

Teknovus inks 20 Chinese contracts for GEPON equipment

Broadband Properties Magazine Names Zoomy Communications Among Top 100 Fiber to the Home Companies

Cable ready - Legislation aims to open up state for competition (PA)

Verizon Promises Pennsylvania Competition

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Verizon FiOS Fiasco

Calif. on verge of state franchise; FiOS trickles ever on

Pay-TV Bill OKd by State Senate (CA)

Friday, September 01, 2006

State Broadband Battles

Fiber vs. Wi-Fi for San Francisco

Verizon launches FTTP in Indiana -Now available in 15 states

OMRON to Acquire Optical Communications Components

Red tape delays new traffic lights

Council approves AT&T deal

Bill would let phone companies compete for cable TV franchises (CA)

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