Category Archives: Next-gen access
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.
FTTH global rankings – H1 2009
The message from the FTTH Councils is that it's "business as usual" despite the recession.
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.
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 (a term I hadn’t come across until today) was originally installed in outlying housing estates [...]
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 how does Britain really stand up in the international league tables of broadband ambition? Well, [...]
Interview: Karel Helsen, FTTH Council Europe
The new president of the FTTH Council Europe talks about widening its membership to include application and content providers.
From the show floor: CIP
This article originally appeared on the fibresystems.org blog.
If there’s one company I look forward to talking to, it’s the UK’s Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP), because they always seem to have something interesting going on. At ECOC last September, CIP wowed attendees with its demonstration of a 32-channel multi-wavelength laser. The component contained two 16-channel [...]
Amsterdam Citynet scores a home run for fibre
Amsterdam's municipal fibre network has become a showcase for fibre-to-the-home in Europe. Pauline Rigby took a trip to the Dutch capital to see how the build out is progressing.
France: landmark decision for fibre projects