Monthly Archives: September 2009

French fibre ultimatum

By Pauline | Published: September 29, 2009
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.
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FTTH global rankings – H1 2009

By Pauline | Published: September 29, 2009
The message from the FTTH Councils is that it's "business as usual" despite the recession.
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The lowdown on Highams Park

By Pauline | Published: September 24, 2009
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.
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ECOC 2009: Technology, money, people

By Pauline | Published: September 23, 2009
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 highlights from last year included the post-deadline paper from Alcatel-Lucent and Draka, which reported 40 [...]
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When things are quiet on the blog…

By Pauline | Published: September 16, 2009
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

By Pauline | Published: September 3, 2009
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 (a term I hadn’t come across until today) was originally installed in outlying housing estates [...]
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Digital Britain: how does the UK really compare?

By Pauline | Published: September 2, 2009
“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 how does Britain really stand up in the international league tables of broadband ambition? Well, [...]
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