Rarely do I get to talk about enterprise broadband on this blog, but today is an exception. Motorola announced a deployment with Getty Images in London of its Passive Optical LAN (POL) solution. The company launched POL last year, and has made steady progress in the enterprise environment with the all-fiber technology. In Getty’s case, [...]
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Despite the bandwidth benefits of running fiber to the home, the reality is that the HFC networks deployed by cable operators today still have life left in them. Looking for more IP video? How about a 1Gbps throughput rate? It’s all feasible over HFC with careful, well-thought-out network planning. Years ago Motorola introduced a bandwidth [...]
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According to the Fiber-to-the-Home Council, the number of FTTH homes passed has increased by more than 100% in North America in the last nine years. This stat comes out of a report the Council released in conjunction with this week’s FTTH show in Las Vegas. Other nuggets from the report: There are more than 6.4 [...]
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Overlapping with IBC in Amsterdam, the Fiber-to-the-Home show kicked into gear this week out in Las Vegas. And, timed to coincide with the event, Motorola announced that RST Communications has selected Motorola’s GPON technology for its fiber rollout in North and South Carolina. Although Motorola’s GPON deployments are stacking up, there’s a twist to this [...]
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Verizon threw down the gauntlet today with the announcement that it has trialed speeds of close to 1 Gbps using existing FiOS GPON equipment from Motorola. In other words, Verizon is showing it can hit the Gigabit mark without even migrating to new 10GPON technologies. “The trial, conducted at an existing FiOS business customer location, [...]
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