After implementing a policy for fiber installation and network sharing in urban apartment buildings, France has embarked on a plan to bring fiber access networks to the country’s...
In the November/December 2010 Lightwave magazine interview with Bell Aliant’s Senior Vice President, Customer Experience Chuck Hartlen, “Planning leads to FTTXcellence,” the 2010...
By Stephen Hardy Overview The IEEE has already released the first 10G EPON standards, and 10G GPON specs should arrive this year. But it will take more than standards to get carriers to adopt...
Carriers and access bandwidth providers have undergone a somewhat frustrating churn through passive optical network (PON) architectures over the last decade in an attempt to get ahead of the...
AUGUST 26, 2009 -- Harmonic Inc. (seardch Lightwave for Harmonic) says that Cablevision S.A., Argentina's largest cable video service provider and one of the largest multiservice operators (MSOs)...
by Meghan Fuller Hanna To date, the majority of WDM-PON deployment has been in Korea, with Korea Telecom connecting about 150,000 subscribers, but even KT is said to be scaling back its investment...
by Stephen Hardy Given all the attention that PON has received, one could be forgiven for the belief that it is the only way to deploy FTTH. Yet hundreds of networks around the world—and...
by Kurt Ruderman Efforts by the European Commission (EC) to put in place a new telecommunications framework that focuses on broadband fiber access technologies have raised optimism at the FTTH...
by Cheri Beranek Podzimek Overview A forum discussion among FTTP service providers revealed three areas of common need in FTTP: business planning, labor optimization, and the right...
by Roland Montagne Overview Before research firms release year-end '08 figures, it's useful to establish a baseline for comparison. Worldwide FTTx subscriber numbers jumped 23% during the...
