Friday, February 08, 2008

Fiber to the Home Making Japan an Internet Powerhouse (pdf)

Making the Case for Fiber (pdf)

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Waiting on FiOS Until It Can Deliver LMC-TV

Verizon Aims For 6-7 Million FiOS Users By 2010

FTTH Providers Focus on ‘Convergence;’ Partner with Integrators

LUS plans to say where it will begin offering telecom services

Samsung's vision for next-gen TV

AT&T's stand against franchising rules is potentially discriminatory

PacketFront rolls out fibre in Norway

Prysmian wins German FTTH deal

iamba expands in Europe

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Ikanos' VDSL2 And FTTH Gateway Processors Awarded 2007 Product Of The Year

JDSU Enters GPON Market With New Low-Cost Optical Detector Chip

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Telekom Slovenije Flash Demo of FTTH (Slovenian)

The Smililing Fiber Campaign (Italian)

Fiber or copper to the Italian homes?

Monday, February 04, 2008

Fiscal Stimulus Plan: Waste of Debt Financed Federal Spending

Fixing US broadband: $100 billion for fiber to every home

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

U-Verse Hits Northeastern Illinois

Broadband's Growing 'Need for Speed'

Monday, January 28, 2008

FTTH shipments set record in 3Q07

Cable MSOs’ interest in FTTH deepens

What to do when PON’s bandwidth isn’t enough

Migration to GPON: Practical considerations from the central office to the outside plant

Green is PON's color

AFL touts new closure for FTTH applications

iamba Networks offers new GPON ASIC family

AT&T to offer 10-Mbit/sec U-verse option

Alloptic inks distribution agreement with Cascade Networks

Verizon Hits 1M FiOS TV Subs

Friday, January 25, 2008

FTTH Explained: Delivering Efficient Customer Bandwidth and Enhanced Services

AT&T boosts DSL speeds; still playing tortoise to FiOS hare

FTTH: Amsterdam v. Singapore

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Occam Networks’ Gigabit FTTH Equipment Drives New Hope Network Upgrade

TEF Scores FTTH Win

UK homes to get super-fast fibre

PorchLight Picks Corning

AT&T Ups U-verse Downloads

Did Ciena Overpay for WWP?

SCTE ET: TV expert says AT&T’s video play has 12-18 months left

Friday, January 18, 2008

Goldman Sachs to finance EPB's residential telecom service

Verizon Launches GPON

OpenReach to launch GPON FTTH Pilot in Aug 2008

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fiber (pdf)

Houston, We Have a Problem: Lessons from the OEN Collapse (pdf)

Cisco's Optical Concept: The 1-Gig Cable Modem (DPON)

Tennessee Cable Group Maintains Opposition to Utility Plan

Verizon FiOS TV Hitting NYC Soon?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

When Will NYC Get FiOS?

LUS fiber program moves city forward

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

ITRI and BroadLight Partner to Promote GPON in Taiwan (pdf)

It’s All About Access -- A Comparison of Fiber vs Copper in 2008

Clearfield: Newly wired for profit

Japan government to force NTT to open up next-gen fiber-optic network - report

AT&T Begins Massive Battery Replacement

Monday, January 14, 2008

Optronics to build Greek FTTH network

Friday, January 11, 2008

Pressure off BT over superfast broadband

Is FiOS Worth Moving For?

Officials to begin LUS fiber project

BT Wades into Fibre with Roll-Out of 100-Mbps Fibre Network in U.K.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Don't Let Down Your DSL Guard While Moving to Fiber

Verizon FIOS GPON in Nine States

MSOs go public with FTTH interest

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

FTTP orders give ADC a boost

Verizon's FiOS readies first urban push

AT&T to roll out U-Verse this week in Metro East (IL)

‘RF Over Glass’ Concept Gains Steam

Calix Ships GPON ONTs With Standards-based RF Return

Thursday, January 03, 2008

UTOPIA: Could high-speed fiber optic end up a cyber-paradise lost?

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Provo, Utah, overhauls iProvo muni fiber model

EPB heads toward bond issue despite suit

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Symmetrical FiOS Business Lines Available

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Officials hold FairPoint to high standard

Monday, December 17, 2007

Alphion Touts PON Extension

BroadLight Names CEO

AlcaLu Goes Rural

RUS Approves Pannaway

Pannaway gains USDA technical acceptance for products including 2.5 GPON, 100/1000 Mbit/s Active Ethernet solutions

Alcatel-Lucent 7342 ISAM FTTU solution gains Rural Development Acceptance from USDA

Qwest Stays with Old Playbook

Thursday, December 13, 2007

New ADC 1x64 Splitter Delivers Plug-And-Play Technology For FTTX Applications

Integration Between ERF Wireless And Latens Systems Offers Secure And Flexible FTTH Systems For International Customers

PMC-Sierra Introduces MSP7160 Integrated GPON Fiber Access Gateway Device

Lyse And IBM Continue To Innovate On Fiber Optic Broadband Solutions

Monday, December 10, 2007

Verizon Spells Out 100 Mbit/s

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Alloptic raises $24m funding to expand operations and develop MicroNode platform for RF over Glass applications

Alloptic GEPON access solution selected for Bahrain Bay planned community in Manama

FlexLight Networks, supplier of GPON optical access products, reportedly shuts down

Verizon Offers HD Video On Demand

Corning Cable Systems Announces First Sale Of ClearCurve Product Solution

Alcatel-Lucent And Hong Kong Broadband Network Introduce First Carrier-Class GPON In Hong Kong

GPON Reference Design From Freescale And OpenCon Enables Rapid Creation Of Affordable CPE Solutions

Thursday, October 04, 2007

100Mbps Symmetrical: $48.50

Monday, September 24, 2007

At Age 2, Verizon FiOS Evolves

AT&T aims for 10,000 IPTV installs per week

Verizon gets Washington state bundling approval

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Move to spur UK broadband speed

Monday, September 17, 2007

Network in need of voters' backing (MN)

Network in need of voters' backing (MN)

Telco fiber deployments threaten cable operators

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