Fiber Optics

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) says it is deploying an open access GPON fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network for the delivery of triple-play services (TV, telephony, and high-speed Internet) at bandwidths of up to 100 Mbps in Sasbachwalden, Germany. In total, the GPON FTTH network will serve 1,555 households in 648 separate buildings in 44 different streets.
The community itself initiated and realized the GPON FTTH project — from the initial idea to the selection of Alcatel-Lucent as a technology partner — together with a planning office and in close coordination [......]

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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 Council Europe, whose members say clear, coherent regulation is needed to spur massive FTTH deployments.
After some false starts, the European Commission is on the way to bringing a degree of pan–European regulatory certainty that should spur FTTH deployments. But obstacles remain.
“This is a major step,” said Joeri M. Van Bogaert, president of the FTTH Council Europe. “A major change is that FTTH and FTTC have be[......]

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SINGAPORE — CommunicAsia 2010 — When the CEO of an operator that’s already offering a 100-Mbit/s fixed broadband service questions the need for such a level of personal bandwidth, then it’s time to take a closer look at consumer demand for super-fast connections.
Never one to shy away from the real-world issues affecting service providers, Neil Montefiore, CEO of Singapore’s StarHub Pte. Ltd. and a veteran of the Southeast Asia communications industry, noted during a CEO panel here that “no one is quite sure what people will do with 100-Mbit/s symmetr[......]

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