First quarter shipment numbers are in, and the shift from BPON to GPON in fiber-to-the-home deployments is clear. While most 2007 shipments were BPON, in the first quarter of 2008, 90% of Motorola’s optical line terminals (OLTs) shipped were GPON. Top Motorola PON customers so far this year are Verizon and the aggregate of Motorola [...]
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I ran across an interesting combination of stats today on next-gen broadband networks. First The New York Times had an article on the new Global Information Technology Report stating that the US has one of the best Internet infrastructures in the world. We now rank fourth globally taking into account a wide range of variables [...]
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Earlier this week the SCTE officially launched its standards effort around RFOG. I’m not entirely sure what this milestone means (officially launched an effort?) , but it’s certainly true that cable is getting more serious about fiber.
Meantime, if you need a recap on RF Over Glass (and how cable operators get from there [...]
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Here are some of my favorite shots from the CMTS lab yesterday. (Click thumbnails for a larger view) In order, there’s a photo of fiber nodes, racks upon racks of cable modems, a cable modem close-up, a mess of wires (far worse than my own home entertainment system…) and a BSR 64000 (CMTS) [...]
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I heard back today from one of the Motorolans on site at the Fiber to the Home Europe show. He was ecstatic with the event. Attendance doubled from last year and his big take-away was that there was greater interest from a number of incumbent telecom operators – not just early adopters. [...]
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While I’d prefer to be in Paris right now for the FTTH Europe event, I’ll have to settle for being able to access some of the content stateside. Telecommunications magazine has an audiocast from the show with executive editor Sean Buckley interviewing Motorola’s Floyd Wagoner. Among other things, the interview covers RF over [...]
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The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council Europe event officially kicks off tomorrow, and to drum up excitement, the Council has leaked early information from a report showing that there are now more than one million FTTH subscribers throughout Europe. The growth rate was 30% from 2006 to 2007.
Of course compared to growth rates in North America [...]
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Last week Verizon announced it has topped one million customers for its FiOS TV service. The announcement hit the wires a mere seven months after the operator reached the same milestone for its high-speed Internet offering.
As far as TV goes, Verizon’s major differentiator comes from the fact that it’s building out fiber to [...]
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As I mentioned last week, there are changes ahead for this blog including more commentary from Motorola executives and experts on a variety of topics. To kick off these executive visits I sat down recently with Geoff Roman, a Motorola corporate vice president, to hear his thoughts on 2007, 2008 and beyond.
Geoff [...]
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There’s a (relatively) new acronym making the rounds: RFOG, or RF Over Glass. In brief, RFOG is a category term for technology that lets cable operators use traditional back-office cable equipment with new fiber-to-the-home deployments. In greenfield situations, even cable operators want to put fiber in the ground, but they’d rather not pay [...]
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