From the category archives:
I blogged in the past about different ways cities and people are trying to attract the attention of Google FTTH plan to their local communities. Here’s another inspired effort (very funny!) from someone in Holland, Michigan! If you like the song you are going to love the video, if you don’t you’ll still hand it [...]
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Salisbury is one of the municipal FTTH networks in US I have followed closely the last few months. The network starts to market fiber connections this summer and consequently it hit the local news. It’s 3 minutes and it’s interesting. For some reason I can’t embed the flash video in the post so you can [...]
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Here’s the best future-proof guide to building an FTTH network.
Thanks Goose for agreeing in putting the FTTH version up on Broadband Prime and aristo- for pointing me to the original.
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I wrote an article titled “Fiber Access Networks” in this month’s issue of Online, the magazine of the Association of Greek ICT Engineers. The article is a brief on FTTx (architectures, topologies and technologies) and FTTx economics (costs, profitability and the impact of public-private collaboration).
If you’re interested and know Greek you can get the article [...]
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Broadband has been often daemonized for being a service with strong financial burdens and a cumbersome return on investment for fixed operators. Broadband users keep asking for more bandwidth (which they often get at the same price) to imrpove their access to third party’s content. This increases the pressure to fixed operators to enhance access [...]
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Internet is freedom; but what is freedom? Fredom is about minimizing the bad and protecting the good.
An inspiring speech by Lawrence Lessig at the Italian Parliament. Pointed by @PTsanakas, published on blip.tv.
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I came about this today and I thought you might want to know. WIK Consulting is organizing a 1.5 day event (26-27 April in Berlin) to discuss some of the most debatable topics of the FTTH world:
What are the key objectives, elements and instruments of the different national broadband strategies?
What is the actual role of [...]
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Last week I read the latest WIK’s consulting report on NGA. The news coverage mentioned that a Germany-wide FTTH deployment would cost 120 billion euros and that an FTTC+VDSL deployment would cost approximately 40 billion euros. The news article did not make clear to the percentage of coverage these figures referred to.
The article ignited the [...]
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The Ministry of Infrastructure released this Friday a public consultation regarding the tender for selecting the national FTTH project’s consultant. The consultant will undertake a techno-economic analysis on the project and will have to provide input to the ministry regarding the proposed business model and plan, sustainability study, sensitivity analysis and so forth.
There are a [...]
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This is a picture that helps understand the impact of open access and interoperability in the information/news business (although its intention was different). These two valuable qualities, inherent in the Internet world, have enabled the uncontrolled and unconditional dissemination of diverse information for the benefit of the consumer. It has also facilitated the creation of [...]
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Costas Troulos is a telecoms analyst and passionately covers wireline broadband and related developments in Greece and the rest of the world. For the last 4 years he has been involved in several consulting and research projects on public broadband investments, FTTH and metro network deployments. His is interested in everything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.