Tag Archives: FTTH

WDM-PON Standards: Playing the Long Game

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Pauline

WDM-PON might not get standardised before 2020. That possibility was raised at the 3rd WDM-PON Forum Workshop, which took place last month in Munich, Germany, alongside the FTTH Conference 2012. “Under NG-PON2, it is most likely there will be no … Continue reading →

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Message from Milan

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Pauline

You know the Homer Simpson clip where he complains “Every time I learn how to set the remote, I forget how to drive the car”? That is exactly how I felt after three days of presentations at the FTTH Council … Continue reading →

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Fibre pioneers light up Ashby de la Launde

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Pauline

Ashby is a tiny village in rural Lincolnshire of just 63 homes and 3 small businesses. Although the village is tiny, it’s probably got the fastest broadband network of any community in the UK with 1Gbps connections between properties within the village itself and a 100Mbps symmetric fibre connection to the outside world. Continue reading →

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Benoît on the FTTH Benefit Compendium

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Pauline

Why fibre? It’s a fundamental question for proponents of fibre-to-the-home, but it’s difficult to answer concisely or even clearly because the answer varies dramatically depending on where you reside in the FTTH ecosystem. Continue reading →

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NGA in the UK: the patchwork quilt

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Pauline

Although Britain was a leader in first-generation broadband, we’re definitely late to the party when it comes to next-generation access (NGA). But the transition to fibre access networks has finally begun, and one image particularly brings this message home to me. Continue reading →

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Dutch broadband speeds don’t measure up

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Pauline

The Netherlands may be one of Europe’s leading broadband nations, but it’s suffering from a familiar problem – the actual broadband speeds received by consumers are significantly lower than advertised. A study carried out by Telecompaper in partnership with iPing … Continue reading →

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Public money and broadband in France

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Pauline

NEXTGEN09, LEEDS — What’s the best way for local authorities to encourage the roll out of next-generation broadband without distorting competition? The French experience,
recounted by Gabrielle Gauthey, senior vice-president for public affairs at Alcatel-Lucent, seems to suggest that investing in backhaul is the right way to go. Continue reading →

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Backhaul bottlenecks

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Pauline

None of the consumer applications being discussed at Fibrecamp Britain today really require fibre, but in a perverse kind of way perhaps that’s a good thing. Today’s community networks are severely constrained by backhaul; until this problem is solved then innovative applications don’t stand a chance. Continue reading →

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Fibrecamp Britain: a reporter’s notes

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Pauline

It was standing room only at Fibrecamp this afternoon; a measure of the interest in providing high-speed broadband and next-generation access in the UK. Continue reading →

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Europe doles out funds for rural broadband

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Pauline

Amidst all the brouhaha over broadband stimulus funding in the US, it’s easy to forget that Europe has its very own economic stimulus package, called the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP), with an allocation of €1.0 billion to be spent on … Continue reading →

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