I’ve talked before about fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) as a real-estate perk, but a new study shows that high-speed broadband really is an important selling point among home buyers. Bearing in mind that the study was commissioned by the Fiber to the Home Council and announced in a press release by Verizon, the report concludes that buyers [...]
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Despite certain lagging indicators in the cable industry, RFOG seems likely to get a boost in 2009 as operators spend money building out their commercial services offerings. The RF-over-Glass technology falls in the sweet spot between “cost-effective” (cheap now) and “revenue generating” (FTTP enables future higher-tier services), and is getting more attention of late. While [...]
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Here’s something I missed last week. Apparently there’s a new bill circulating in Congress proposing that fiber conduits be deployed as part of any federal highway project. How utterly sensible. This would significantly lower the cost for providers that later want to come in and lay the actual fiber optic cable. Between the combination of [...]
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Typically the evolutionary path for broadband starts in the workplace and moves out to the home. Consumers moved from dial-up to high-speed because of expectations built at work. However, as evidence that sometimes the reverse is true, Motorola announced today a new solution for the enterprise – Motorola Passive Optical LAN – based on the [...]
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Even as we argue over how to fund more broadband in the US – particularly in rural, unserved and underserved areas – there appears to be renewed activity on the fiber network front. According to research firm TeleGeography (via GigaOM), more than 60% of US operators plan to light up more fiber in 2009, and [...]
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Verizon racked up another strong quarter according to the most recent earnings report. The telco has passed more than ten million homes with FiOS Internet service, and nearly that many with FiOS TV. Of those households with FiOS available, 26.8% subscribe to data services and 22.9% subscribe to video services. At the same time, Verizon [...]
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Amid all the talk about Verizon’s financial bet in choosing to deploy fiber to the home (FTTH), I thought I’d highlight another FTTH deployment, and why it’s been successful to date. Back in September, I posted about how a small telco called Hotwire Communications had chosen to use Motorola’s gigabit PON [...]
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Every once in a while I find it useful to do a status check of Internet speed tiers. With that in mind, here’s a look at what major operators across the US are promoting, along with a nod to a few noteworthy international players.
Comcast: Launched DOCSIS 3.0-based “Extreme Tier” last year with 50 Mbps downstream [...]
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We’ve been talking about RF-over-Glass (RFOG) for well over a year now, but the technology got a major boost this week when Time Warner Cable issued an RFOG RFI. The major benefit of RFOG is the ability for cable operators to extend fiber to the home while still using existing equipment and traditional RF video [...]
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The Broadband Forum has a new report out (warning: PDF link) based on a study of broadband growth conducted by analyst firm Point Topic. The good news is that there are now more than 400 million broadband subscribers worldwide. That’s up 600,000 percent since 1998. Says senior analyst Oliver Johnson:
Getting to 400 million subscribers… has [...]
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