From the monthly archives:
One of the most exciting news in September’s European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 2008 was probably the presentation of a field trial by Verizon and Nokia Siemens Networks that transmitted 100Gbps for over 1,040Km simultaneously with 10Gbps and 40Gbps signals on the same system. This is a world record for 100Gbps optical transmission following [...]
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In an interview published today at TelecomTV, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy discusses Australia’s national strategy for broadband. The bidding process for the Australian NGN is completing at the end of this year. Watch the interview at the end of the post. Here’s the interview’s highlights:
The project aims [...]
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TTK is a Russian intra–continental capacity supplier focused on providing low latency and high quality wholesale transit and access services to international operators at the shortest Europe – Asia route. The company has a fairly large footprint with 17 international gateways in Europe, former soviet countries and southeast Asia. The big news is that following [...]
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FTTx is a relatively new development in the telecom industry, with relatively small technology & architecture dependences and no historic record. Therefore, many issues relating to FTTx deployments, namely implementation, business models, economic case, technology etc are still open and are going through heavy international dispute. The previous generation of broadband access (ADSL & cable) [...]
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A mega valued reader send me these pictures from one of EU eastern capitals. These pictures illustrate aerial deployments of FTTH/B access networks. You can also see the feeder cables climbing on the rooftop of few buildings.
Economic case certainly benefits from the FTTH/B costs cuts of aerial installation, however, it has a negative impact on [...]
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FTTH advances…
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This weekend a flue has grounded me in-house, in bed or, at best, in my home office. I took advantage (go figure!) of the situation and read more than usual! While I am still recovering, here’s some of the best web readings of my last weekend:
The Next Broadband Business Models: As broadband growth rates steadily [...]
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While on the other side of the Atlantic voices are calling for governmental support to uplift broadband figures, Finland is yet another European country to publicly consider the government funding of NGNs. The cost of the investment would be EUR 200 million, of which the state would pay up to a third, municipalities, regions and [...]
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European Commission has issued a public consultation for a set of proposals that are aimed to spur competition and encourage the development of FTTH. After the end of the consultation period (mid-Novemeber) the Commission will adapt the comments of the responders to a formal recommendation in 2009. [Press Release available]
Viviane Reding, the Commissioner for Information [...]
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Another valued reader made a good remark on an article in Kathimerini I mentioned few posts back. OTE publishes data for its unbundled loops with no indication on what these loops are used for. In short, OTE overestimates broadband connections stats by assuming that all unbundled local loops are used for ADSL services.
This artificially inflates [...]
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Costas Troulos is a telecoms analyst and passionately covers wireline broadband and related developments in Greece and the rest of the world. For the last 4 years he has been involved in several consulting and research projects on public broadband investments, FTTH and metro network deployments. His is interested in anything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.