Monthly Archives: September 2009

French fibre ultimatum

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has given the country’s four main telecoms operators just two weeks to come up with a solution for fibre-to-the-home. Continue reading

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FTTH global rankings – H1 2009

The message from the FTTH Councils is that it’s “business as usual” despite the recession. Continue reading

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The lowdown on Highams Park

Highams Park is unique in the UK because it is the first location for a trial of fibre-to-the-premises on a brownfield site. Continue reading

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ECOC 2009: Technology, money, people

Here’s a copy of my leader article in the ECOC magazine: And so to Vienna for the 35th year of ECOC, which is billed — quite rightly in my view — as the leading optical networking event in Europe. Personal … Continue reading

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When things are quiet on the blog…

I like cables of all kinds, especially cables that lead to the top of a mountain…

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BT replacing fibre with copper

File this one under “makes no sense”. While Openreach has been building trial networks for fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), it has also been overlaying copper on fibre access networks built back in the 1990s. The legacy technology, called TPON … Continue reading

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Digital Britain: how does the UK really compare?

“Digital Britain disappoints” and “Digital dithering from a dated Government”: two hardly unique headlines in the media immediately after the release of the Digital Britain report, which is supposed to be the UK’s blueprint for a digitally connected future. But … Continue reading

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