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Google to build Network in Challenge to AT&T, Verizon (Update 3)
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. is planning to build high-speed fiber-optic broadband networks in the U.S. to offer Internet speeds that are more than 100 times faster than what Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. sell today.
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PON equipment market to top $2 billion for first time in 2009, led by China network rollouts
Campbell, CALIFORNIA, December 15, 2009—Market research firm Infonetics Research (http://twitter.com/infonetics) released its third quarter (3Q09) PON and FTTH Equipment and Subscribers market size and share report, which tracks Ethernet FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) equipment and passive optical network equipment, including BPON, EPON, GPON, and WDM-PON equipment split by FTTH and FTTB (fiber-to-the-building) applications.
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Optical network hardware is a bright spot
Global telecom service provider capital expenditures hit a plateau in 2008, marking the end of a 5-year investment cycle and the beginning of a 3-year disinvestment cycle, albeit a less dramatic one than what followed the great telecom crash of 2000. Optical network hardware is a bright spot in today's tightened capex environment, with decent single-digit percent spending growth expected in 2009, despite currency devaluations.
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Nobel honours 'masters of light'
Three scientists who corralled light to transform our communications systems share this year's physics Nobel Prize. Briton Charles Kao is lauded for his work in helping to develop fibre optic cables, the slender threads of glass that carry phone and net data as light.
Willard Boyle and George Smith, both North Americans, are recognised for their part in the invention of the charge-coupled device, or CCD. This light detector initiated the digital camera revolution
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Massive Chinese PON equipment orders drive 16% market gain in 2Q09
- The PON equipment market got back on track this quarter, thanks mainly to China. Between China Telecom’s ongoing FTTB rollout (where ZTE is currently out-shipping Huawei) and the kickoff of China Unicom's massive 11-million-line EPON FTTB/FTTN deployment, EPON spending shot way up in China in 2Q09, buoying the worldwide PON market, despite global declines in GPON and WDM-PON spending, explains Jeff Heynen, directing analyst for broadband and video at Infonetics Research.
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Asia-Pac broadband subs to hit 182 million in 2009
AUGUST 14, 2009 -- According to industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan (search Lightwave for Frost & Sullivan) Asia Pacific's fixed broadband subscribers are expected to grow 17.3% to reach 182 million users by the end of 2009, clocking estimated billings of US$44.9 billion, a rise of 13.3% percent over 2008.
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Asia Pacific PON port shipments tripling 2008 to 2013
Asia Pacific is by far the most dynamic PON market in the world. The early BPON and EPON rollouts in Japan and South Korea are quickly being eclipsed by China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile’s extensive EPON and GPON rollouts for FTTB, FTTH, and mobile backhaul. Though EPON dominates Chinese deployments today, there is no question that the Chinese operators will deploy GPON
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Who Makes What: GPON & WDM-PON Equipment
This Who Makes What installment is an update to Light Reading’s August 2008 Who Makes What: GPON Equipment, so it uses the same product categories. Twelve months is becoming a long time in the GPON world, and an update is needed to reflect the continual changes in a growing, but still somewhat erratic, market. Readers should consult the original article for background on aspects of PON technology.
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