Posted on November 27, 2007 by Mari Silbey
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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Posted on June 19, 2007 by Mari Silbey
There are a couple more Motorola announcements out of NXTcomm today: North American availability of Motorola’s IP DSLAM portfolio and the launch of Motorola’s GPON solution. More details to come, but note that the GPON solution is the one Verizon will be deploying in its FiOS network. Motorola has a relatively long history [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2007 by Mari Silbey
Continuing on the fiber theme, Engadget has a post on Verizon’s rollout of GPON (gigabit passive optical network) technology. Sadly the post includes no mention of Motorola as one of the GPON providers, but that’s neither here nor there.What interested me was one of the comments on the post. Someone claimed that when [...]
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