Chattanooga, TN, utility-based service provider EPB Fiber Optics stole the spot-light at September's FTTH Conference with the announcement that it would offer 1-Gbps services ...
Once Bell Aliant–which operates across six Canadian provinces–decided to deploy fiber to the home (FTTH), it moved from planning to implementation in a matter of months. In the...
by Stephen HardyThe U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) recently released a report that compared the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) proposed National Broadband Plan...
By Jon AndersonWith the first generation of modules beginning to ship, work is already underway to reduce transceiver power and form factor.With the recent completion of 40G/100...
By converging residential and business services over the same network, service providers can increase efficiency and reduce costs.By Ed Harstead and Fred WillemsThe surge of bandwidth...
By Stephen HardyThese technologies will drive advances in test and measurement, FTTX, equipment design, networking, and MSO optics in 2011.Optical communications encompasses a...
Packet-optical transport platforms can help solve the challenges of increasing network capacity and reducing network costs.Service providers around the world are under escalating...