FTTX

Fiber to the X (FTTX) comprises the many variants of fiber optic access infrastructure. These include fiber to the home (FTTH), fiber to the premise (FTTP), fiber to the building (FTTB), fiber to the node (FTTN), and fiber to the curb or cabinet (FTTC). You'll find FTTX news, FTTX products, and FTTX market research on this page.

FTTX NEWS & PRODUCTS

Kuuskaista uses Calix E7 to bring advanced broadband to rural Finland

Calix Inc. (NYSE: CALX) says that Finnish network co-operative Verkko-Osuuskunta Kuuskaista ...

TraceSpan launches handheld GPON tester

TraceSpan Communications Inc. has released the GPON Tracer 380, which it claims is the first...

IEEE ratifies SIEPON standard for EPON interoperability

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) ratified IEEE 1904.1 Standard for Service Interoper...

White House report hints at increase in baseline broadband speed

High-speed broadband has become so ubiquitous in the United States that the baseline for bro...

Channell charges Preformed Line Products with sealed enclosure patent infringement

Enclosure and connectivity company Channell Commercial Corp. has sued Preformed Line Product...

Calix offers home gateway software for 700GE ONTs

Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) says customers using its E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform can no...

Infonetics: Broadband aggregation market can’t beat 2012

First quarter 2013 (1Q13) spending on broadband aggregation equipment was up in North Americ...

Deltek deploys passive optical LAN from Tellabs

Deltek, a provider of enterprise software and IT supplier, says it is using passive optical ...

EDitorial GUIDEs

New perspectives on OTN

Optical Transport Network (OTN) technology is rapidly replacing SONET/SDH in packet-optimized networks. As new network needs arise, ...

New era emerges for submarine networks

We are currently in a new era of submarine network construction and upgrade. New systems are being constructed, and established sys...

The next generation of 100G

Now that 100-Gbps transmission is reaching the field, work is already underway on the second generation of the technology. Upcoming...

Fiber powers mobile backhaul

The traffic demands mobile broadband have created have driven operators to rethink their mobile backhaul strategies. Many have concl...

The year ahead in optical communications

Of course, no one truly knows all that the future will bring – but that won’t stop us from making predictions. Here’s a compendium o...

Fiber optics for the data center

As capacity demands climb and footprints grow in the data center, fiber-optic technology becomes increasingly appealing for communic...

High-Speed Packet Transport

Service providers of all stripes – from telcos to cable operators and wholesalers to managed data services providers – are seeing an...

Fiber-optic advances for the enterprise

With bandwidth demands growing in enterprise networks, fiber-optic technology development is keeping pace. From finding ways to mini...

Integration as an enabler for next-generation equipment design

Next-generation optical communications systems have to keep pace with the ever-increasing data rate and functionality requirements o...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

No national fiber broadband network for U.S.

May 31, 2013
The folks at market research and analysis firm IHS (NYSE: IHS) recently made the assertion in a new report from their IHS Screen Digest Operator Multiplay Intelligence Service that Google is unlikely to take its Google Fiber effort nationwide. As was the case the last time someone took up this topic (see “What is Google Fiber trying to...

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Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Ethernet runs out of steam

February 1, 2013
Big news on the higher-speed Ethernet front. No, not that work has begun on 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), thus setting the bar low, but rather the intention to go for 1.6 Terabit Ethernet (TbE) afterward. Yes, that’s right. After deca...

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