Broadband Prime’s Top Picks – week 23
Broadband Prime’s Top Picks is a weekly digest that brings you the top articles that I’ve read the past week. The focus of the digest is not on news, unless ground-breaking rather on opinions, analysis and comments by individuals or organizations relevant to the blog’s favorite topics. Hopefully, this is going to be a list of good information that you might have missed. I am keeping the number of links strictly to maximum 5 to make the digest meaningful and effective.
Future FTTH network should be buried, and shouldn’t be PON: Stuart Corner writes on ITWire and discusses the deployment options (burried vs. aerial) and architectural options (PON vs. Poiont-to-Point) of FTTH. The latter I think it’s pretty much covered by a significant body of literature and press. As far as the first point is concerned though, the article suggests that aerial deployment, although cheaper, exhibits significant operational costs related to increased ratio of failures due to open exposure of the infrastructure. For what is worth, I might add that aerial fiber also reduces quality of living in the area of deployment.
The Impacts of Policy and Regulation on FTTH deployments (pdf): Stephen points to an excellent presentation by Stefan Keller-Tuberg, Chair, Regulation and Policy Committee, FTTH Council Asia-Pacific. The presentation reports on input provided by Ovum and discusses the challenges of a goverment-led nationwide FTTH deployment. Yes, Australia is the point of reference.
FTTH Networks: No Sure Bet: I find the title as it is slightly misleading. The article briefly reports on the importance of planning and design and the need to considered idiosyncracies of different markets and cultures for FTTH success.
Roads vs. FTTH: When discussing FTTH investments it is good to see things in the appropriate perspective. Think for a minute how many Kms of road you have to spare to deploy FTTH to a certain area of choice. For relatively small countries, the dilemma is eventually whether we choose to build a bridge, upgrade a port or light up an entire country.
Broadband Stimulus as the “Next Telecom Boom”? …We Hope Not: The article discusses previous US experiences of markets booms and busts and attempts some guidelines to avoid another bust of the telecom sector following the stumulus dollars
