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Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity

News H2O Networks, a company that lays fibre optic cabling in the sewers, said work will begin to hook up every house and business in Bournemouth in the next six months - enabling speeds of up to 100Mbps. Bournemouth Borough Council is no stranger to a...

Tags: h2o, fibre, bournemouth

[08 May 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News F is for Fibre BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. Click on the links below to find out more. The tie-up focuses on SMEs and will, according to BT, allow them to...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain

News Fibre could be laid through the UK's sewer ducts to help speed up the rollout of super fast broadband to homes and businesses across the country. The speed offered by fibre optic cable - up to 100Mb - is much faster than broadband speeds of...

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment This is already a very easy step for those countries that have already invested in optical fibre to the home. The wars over DVD formats seem to have been slightly different. It was also first to market and only required a minimal investment for the...

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News F is for Fibre He also said increasing consolidation in the broadband market, together with the massive increase in data traffic brought about by consumer video services, would force many small ISPs to go business-only or be swallowed up by larger...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

One of Oregon's Largest Counties Deploys Equallogic

whitepaper The Aging Fibre Channel SAN could not scale to meet growing demands. Clackamas County replaced old Fibre Channel SAN with modular PS Series SAN for central storage consolidation and data protection. Clackamas County, Oregon, is home to more than...

Tags: storage management

[04 Mar 2008]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News The government has also asked industry lobbying association the Broadband Stakeholders Group to look at the economics of fibre deployment - specifically whether laying fibre to the home is viable without first deploying fibre to the cabinet.

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Locked in at the bank

Comment Fast-forward to today and we have multiple fixed and mobile networks with twisted pair, coax, optical fibre, wi-fi, and WiMax providing telephone, TV and broadband connectivity, VoIP, quadruple service plays and number portability.

Tags: mobile, banks, wi-fi, bank

[07 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list

Comment F is for Fibre But I have always been able to stay ahead of the game and keep on top of technology and business. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. To continue making progress and keep ahead of the game, I need things...

Tags: artificial intelligence, christmas, applications, play

[20 Dec 2007]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News F is for Fibre BT declined to comment on the findings. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. The survey also found the average broadband subscription cost has fallen to £21.10 per month - down from £25.91 last year - and...

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

Where next for broadband Britain?

News Without investment to improve broadband infrastructure - such as fibre to the home and fibre to the cabinet - Fogg said the danger is "the next big thing on the internet may not work in the UK". But he said this is an issue that is likely to...

Tags: ngn, nga, broadband, fibre

[22 Nov 2007]

Salten Broadband Rolls Out Triple Play Voice and Video Services Over Ethernet to the Home Network With Cisco Technology

whitepaper Salten Bredband is using existing tubes, ducts and rights of way from its energy utility parent companies to help extend the fibre cost-effectively to households and reduce the overall digging requirement.

Tags: switching

[16 Nov 2007]

Ofcom consults on next generation access

News BT is reluctant to spend billions of pounds installing fibre to the home (FTTH) or fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) while regulations state it would have to give rival providers equivalent access to those connections.

Tags: ngn, bt, broadband, fttc

[27 Sep 2007]

UK minister dreaming of a high fibre diet

News However, the price of copper is rising and BT's outgoing chairman, Sir Christopher Bland, hinted recently that fibre to the home (FTTH) could become a reality in the UK, as it has elsewhere in Western Europe.

Tags: broadband, fibre, ftth

[19 Sep 2007]

BT chief hints at fibre rollout

News Such a rollout would mean faster connectivity for users than that provided by the existing all-copper connections between premises and exchanges but not as fast as that promised by "fibre to the home" (FTTH).

Tags: bt, fibre

[19 Jul 2007]

Fibre - coming to a home near you

News Fibre to the home (FTTH) will reach more than 14 million homes in Europe by 2012, research predicts. Broadband was delivered via fibre optic networks to more than 2.5 million European homes in 2006 - and demand for the high-speed technology is only...

Tags: copper, copper wire networks, bandwidth, ftth

[10 Jul 2007]

Cheat Sheet: FTTx

Cheat Sheet We're talking about fibre in the broadband sense - as in fibre to the home (FTTH), fibre to the premises (FTTP), fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) or FTTx, the overarching term for any or all of these terms.

Tags: fttp, fttc, ftth, fibre to the home

[11 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?

Comment A telco employing about 300,000 people in the 1980s now only needs about 30,000 when fibre is extended down to home and office. Those who grasped the nettle and extended fibre to home and office will thus achieve vast and continuing savings, while...

Tags: ngn

[02 May 2007]

Stories of the month - April 2007

News CN knocks BT home fibre chances Home Secretary John Reid said the aim is to stamp out mobile phone theft altogether. As our Inside India special report continues, there was still time for another look at the Indian offshoring phenomenon - this time...

Tags: second life, dell, blackberry, stories of the month

[30 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is web 2.0 doomed to fail?

Comment I just hope all those people who voted for an asymmetric world back in the mid 1980s, and denied the deployment of optical fibre to the home throughout the West are feeling as sick as the proverbial parrot!

Tags: broadband, web 2.0, adsl

[23 Apr 2007]

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