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

m2fx adds $3 million in new funding

Pushable fiber-optic cable developer m2fx says it has closed a $3 million (£2 million) fundi...

Ericsson to shutter telecom cable manufacturing operations

As part of its review of its operations, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has decided to cease the ma...

Eircom unveils national high-speed broadband network

Irelands’ incumbent operator Eircom has officially launched its new “e-fibre” high-speed bro...

AFL offers Fujikura One-Click Cleaner MPO

AFL says it has expanded its One-Click Cleaner product line with the One-Click Cleaner MPO. ...

Clearfield unveils FieldSmart Fiber Distribution Point – KIS outdoor fiber enclosure

Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD) has introduced its latest addition to the FieldSmart fiber en...

Troy Cablevision deploys Optelian gear for 100G fiber-optic network

Troy Cablevison, Inc. has installed Optelian’s MPX-9110 100-Gbps platform in its Alabama fib...

Ethernet Alliance subcommittee tackles Ethernet in access networks

A new Ethernet Alliance Access Networking subcommittee will attempt to promote the use of Et...

Marne Elk Horn Telephone taps ADTRAN for FTTH network

Independent telco Marne Elk Horn Telephone has installed the Total Access 5000 broadband acc...

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...

FTTH and Beyond


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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

HuaweI: We're not quitting U.S.

April 25, 2013
Huawei would like you to know that while it has decided that it's unlikely to achieve rampant success in the U.S. carrier network equipment market, it's not pulling up stakes and leaving. As previously reported, Eric Xu, Huawei executive vice president, told attendees at an analyst conference this week that "we are not interested ...

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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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