Tuesday, September 12, 2006

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)

Thursday, August 31, 2006

AT&T U-verse TV to Include The Weather Channel

Is Fiber TV a Good Deal?

High-speed broadband to be explored (MN)

Is AT&T’s Current Project Lightspeed Actually Project Slightspeed?

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Lightspeed Unauthorized

Pike & Fischer: Verizon may be too optimistic on FiOS service

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Seattle pares broadband list

Fiberdata Integration builds GPON network for Swedish cable comapny

Worldwide Markets for Fiberoptics in Broadband Access Networks

New AT&T Video Strategy Could Be In The Works

Urban developers tap into fibre

Verizon adds Windows Live services

Verizon offers free Internet gaming

Monday, August 28, 2006

Optical Communications buys GigaComm

Cable gains ground while IPTV stalls

Rebuttal on Lightspeed

Open FTTH network in Rotterdam: 7 EUR per month for symmetrical 30 Mbps service

Verizon Brings Hyper-Fast Internet Connections to Gresham Customers (OR)

High Speed Broadband Over Fibre (NZ)

Manukau leading way on super-fast broadband

Key Lesson from the Top 100: Fiber is Easier (pdf)

How To Leverage FTTH – Theme for Summit 2006 (pdf)

Bel Joins MoCA

Moto, Tellabs Get MoCA

Tellabs & Motorola ONTs Receive MoCA Certification

Friday, August 25, 2006

A Quiet Revolution: How Technology Is Changing the Way We Live

Challenges for the Korean IPTV Industry

Verizon's FiOS TV Approved in 12th New York Community

Verizon Expands Choice for TV Service to Florida's Bradenton, Manatee County Residents

AT&T U-verse TV to Include Current TV

Millbury (MA) eyes 2nd cable TV company

IMC Networks Announces New Compact SNMP-Manageable Optical Ethernet Demarcation Unit

New Report Examines the Rather Complex Value Chain That Exists For FTTx Components

Figure-of-eight drop cables target FTTH

RDUP lists additional ADC FTTx products

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Verizon, Cablevision skirmish as war nears

San Antonio developer chooses AT&T Uverse

Stalking Verizon FiOS in the Jersey Jungle

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Alloptic and ProCibernetica sign reseller agreement for Colombia

AT&T: Hold the MoCA

AT&T Selects HomePNA 3 for Home Networking Technology

City pursues dual — and dueling — solutions to the digital divide (San Francisco)

FTTP solutions co Iamba raises $8m

Analyst Data Names Calix Top GPON and MSAP-Based DSL Supplier in North America

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

New approaches to FTTP

Finland's TeliaSonera launches fiber-based broadband services

Zarlink and BroadLight team for packet processing over GPON

Fiber Distribution Hubs (FDHs) for Fiber-to-the-Premises Services Family of Requirements

Novera Speeds WDM-PON

Europe In No Rush to Roll Out FTTH

No Truck-Roll Required With Fujitsu’s GPON Platform

TeliaSonera Finland launches FTTP via metro Ethernet

Fiber optics standard in new homes

Need for speed

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