fibre to the home
RSS fibre to the homePeter Cochrane's Blog: More wireless equals more wires
Comment In the vast majority of cases each cell will be connected into the wider network with copper or fibre cables. Whilst on one level this is almost certainly true, on another we are seeing... [04 May 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Government gaffe
Comment And getting fibre to the home and office is a real national requirement on every level from future health and education through to GDP generation and... [25 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: DIY v DIFM networks
Comment So installing optical fibre is a straightforward proposition. In contrast computers, optical fibre and data networks have realised performance improvements by a factor of more than 1,000,000 in 20 years. [26 Jun 2003]
BT's 21CN: A rush job?
News Reynolds also revealed BT has abandoned its trials of fibre to the home. He said: "We have worked extensively on the operational testing and deployment... [23 Nov 2006]
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... [02 May 2007]
2003 - the year of the wireless LAN
Comment Owning a pan-European or global fibre network has had, to put it mildly, its issues over the past four years. As silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane said this week: "I already have my... [12 Feb 2003]
One of Oregon's Largest Counties Deploys Equallogic
White Paper 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... [05 Mar 2008]
Salten Broadband Rolls Out Triple Play Voice and Video Services Over Ethernet to the Home Network With Cisco Technology
White Paper Using Cisco Metro Ethernet Switching and a fibre optic network, Salten Bredband will provide residential and business customers with 10 Mbit/s Internet connectivity, voice over IP and interactive video services over a... [17 Nov 2007]
Faster broadband demands more bandwidth
News The study, by market development organisation the FTTH Council Europe, compared usage by consumers with FTTH (fibre to the home) with... [08 Jul 2008]
21CN knocks BT home fibre chances
News BT's investment in its all-IP next-generation network - known as the 21CN - has hit its move towards fibre to the home (FTTH), a type of technology for... [12 Apr 2007]
Castle goes high-tech with IP
Case Study Two of the business units were almost operating as completely separate companies with independent infrastructures and the castle needed to do something about it, opting... [21 Jun 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Heavyweight delete
Comment Dispatched to silicon.com via a home LAN and optical fibre line. Written at home after a few frustrating hours trying to recover from a dual hard-drive... [03 Jan 2006]
Where next for broadband Britain?
News Without investment to improve broadband infrastructure - such as fibre to the home and fibre to the... [22 Nov 2007]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fibre optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large... [15 Jul 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity' - meaning 100Mbps-plus broadband connectivity will be speeding out of fibre-optic-stuffed sewers and into every home, business... [18 Jun 2008]
