Author Archives: Pauline

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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Pauline 2.0

By Pauline | Published: August 3, 2009
A funny thing is happening to the world of fibre-optics. With governments around the globe talking up the benefits of a digital economy — regardless of whether they’re prepared to put their money where their mouth is — fibre has suddenly become a hot topic. Municipal broadband projects, fibre for rural areas and digital inclusion [...]
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The 40G market embarks upon a 'golden age'

By Pauline | Published: July 8, 2009
This article originally appeared on fibresystems.org. The market for 40 Gbit/s optical transport equipment is growing strongly and looks set to enjoy a five-year period of deployment opportunity before the 100 Gbit/s market gets into full swing, according to industry analysts. The latest figures from research firm Dell’Oro indicate that worldwide revenues for 40 Gbit/s [...]
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NSN, Juniper pick up the IPoDWDM baton

By Pauline | Published: July 2, 2009
This article originally appeared on fibresystems.org. WDM NICE, 2009 — Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and Juniper Networks seem to be forging an ever closer relationship. Having recently joined forces to sell Carrier Ethernet equipment, the pair are now working together to integrate IP routing with WDM equipment — a concept called IP-over-DWDM or just IPoDWDM. [...]
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Zero touch optical networks: a progress report

By Pauline | Published: July 1, 2009
Multiple equipment vendors at IIR's WDM Nice conference talked up their strategies for optical network automation using GMPLS.
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