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WDM PON: Sooner Rather Than Later ?
For several years, a religious war has raged between advocates of different flavors of fiber to the premises (FTTP). For those deploying FTTH networks, this industry divide makes it tougher to make technology choices. But this war could come to an end sooner than anticipated, because Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)) PON, a technology that could unite the warring tribes, may not be as far off as we all thought.
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ADC debuts WDM-PON offering
ADC has expanded its PONy Express access transport platform with a new WDM-PON application. In this application, the PONy (Passive Optical Network over wavelengths) Express is combined with a WDM-PON plug-and-play splitter in a fiber distribution cabinet to provide an upgrade from GPON to WDM-PON with minimal service impact.
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WDM sales overtake Sonet/SDH
REDWOOD CITY, — According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, sales of WDM systems surpassed that of SONET/SDH multiplexers for the first time ever in the first quarter of this year. Within the $1.4 billion WDM market, the WDM Metro segment outperformed the DWDM Long Haul segment and grew 47 percent over the year-ago quarter.
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20 million European homes will have FTTH by 2015
French cable manufacturer Nexans is predicting 20 million European homes will have a fiber connection by 2015, driven in large part by citynets like Stockholm-owned Stokab, which is connecting buildings rapidly.
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Northern Ireland demos FTTH in live rollout
APRIL 18, 2008 -- A new social housing development in Belfast is one of the first parts of the UK where residents will be offered a choice of next-generation high-speed broadband services, thanks to an initiative by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI), which is responsible for telecommunications policy in Northern Ireland.
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PON market jumps in 2007 as GPON prepares to take off in 2008, WDM-PON emerges
CAMPBELL, California, March 19, 2008—The worldwide market for passive optical networking (PON) systems, which includes BPON, EPON, GPON, and WDM-PON equipment, jumped 56% to $1.74 billion in 2007 over 2006, according to Infonetics Research’s latest quarterly PON and FTTH Equipment and Subscribers report.
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Europe hits one million FTTH broadband connections
The number of countries with fibre to the home (FTTH) connections is continuing to expand, according to an updated global ranking issued by the Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Councils of Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.
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FTTH Technology Fracas Continues
During 2007, the world's telecom carriers connected another 9 million homes to optical fiber; by 2010, if current trends continue, the number of homes connected to FTTH will pass 50 million. A massive transition to all-fiber access is now all but inevitable everywhere. Yet the road to FTTH is full of twists and turns that make it difficult and frustrating for vendors to negotiate – not least in determining what technologies will be used, where, and when.
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Top 10: IPTV Carriers
Given IPTV’s potential to either be the savior of, or a stake in the heart of, today’s carriers, we’ve looked around the world and identified the operators that have the most IPTV subscribers, and then ranked them in order. Here are the Top Ten IPTV carriers, as we see them.
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I am astonished by the changes that have taken place and progress that has been made. Cast your mind back 12 months to a series of discussions characterised by "maybe" and "wannabe".
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