Thursday, September 21, 2006

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)

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

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