fibre to the home
RSS fibre to the homeFibre to the home hits one million
News Fibre to the home (FTTH) is making slow but steady progress in western Europe with nearly one million users connected. Sweden is the most advanced user of FTTH - which uses optical fibre for last-mile connections to users' premises and promises... [01 Mar 2007]
Europe not pushing enough fibre to the home
News Europe is lagging behind other continents for fibre to the home (FTTH) technology. South Korea has added close to two million FTTH subscribers, the US market grew by more than 150 per cent in the past year and China has more than one-third of all... [18 Apr 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... [10 Jul 2007]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home network but wants to wait until Ofcom changes telecommunications regulation before it makes an investment. BT has been explicit that it also wants to see these rules changed, and has hinted... [17 Jul 2008]
Ethernet promises cheaper broadband
News However, few people have the necessary fibre-optics to their home or office, and service providers have so far based their networks on the rival ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) protocol. The Ethernet uplink from the DSLAM can be run on a spare... [27 Nov 2002]
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. [11 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Superhighway? What superhighway?
Comment Where is that high-speed optical fibre to every home and office? This is a much required technology partnership needed to overcome the logjam of ancient copper cables and horded optical fibre capacity that none of us can access. [08 Apr 2004]
The A to Z of broadband
News In the late 1980s, SuperJanet was born: a fibre optic high-speed IP sibling to rehost Janet, proposed to address speed concerns. Forget the Bran Flakes - its optical fibre that's the big idea when it comes to transmitting data. [01 Nov 2006]
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! [23 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The GDP threat
Comment Are there any other limiters to the rollout of fibre to home and office? The good news is the necessary optical fibre technology has been ready to go these past 15 to 20 years, and the civil engineering costs still dominate the full rollout equation. [05 May 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: More wireless equals more wires
Comment But behind all of this will be an increasingly dense network of fibre and wires to get the base-band signals to each wireless node. Whilst on one level this is almost certainly true, on another we are seeing the encroachment of ever increasing... [04 May 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: DIY v DIFM networks
Comment The scale of the problem is massive in terms of the number of people required and the physical time to install and there is probably no chance that any nation will see a complete change over to fibre in the local loop in anything less than a 10... [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 of fibre: fibre to the cabinet and fibre to the home. [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 nettle and extended fibre to home and office will thus achieve vast and continuing savings, while... [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 fibre connection run up to my loft, where I have a small server... [12 Feb 2003]
