The beginning of a new year is a good time to look back on what has been achieved and what challenges lie ahead of us. For Diffraction Analysis, this particular moment also marks the two-year anniversary of a new research
Why the Bandwidth Debate Judders On?
In December I went over to London to do an interview with Telecom TV’s Martyn Warwick on the reality (or not) of the bandwidth crunch. We also ended up talking (a bit) about Google Fiber.
A Plea for a Radical Change in European FTTH Policy
European FTTH policy isn’t working. It’s not in any way controversial to say so, and I have done so repeatedly in the past. When it comes to offering comprehensive solutions and alternate routes of course, things get trickier. When
Telecom Italia goes full-blown FTTC
A few years ago, it looked like Italy might be a place where interesting broadband deployment models might emerge. In particular, a consortium of alternative operators all working together pushed a radical proposal to pool resources for the deployment of
Stockholm’s Stokab: A Blueprint for Ubiquitous Fiber Connectivity?
Stokab has become one of these landmark municipal broadband projects that many people quote and talk about but that until now had never really been studied in depth.
A few months ago, Google approached us and asked if we would
Google Fiber: Not So Revolutionary
Yesterday was the big day that Google announced its Kansas City Google Fiber launch. I wasn’t available for the live broadcast, and I haven’t found the time yet to watch the replay (see below), but from what I’ve had the
Bouygues Telecom to serve THD92 customers
THD92 is the largest Public-Private Partnership in fiber broadband deployment in Europe, and yesterday it passed a very significant milestone. THD92 is an open fiber access network that should ultimately connect all dwellings in the 92 département (roughly 600 000
How disruptive could Google Fiber be?
The excellent Bill St Arnaud posts a very interesting analysis today of the Google Fiber project in Kansas City on his blog under the title Google’s secret strategy with the Kansas City Fiber project. In this post, Bill states
Fiber Nebula
In my spare time I’ve started to work on photos of fiber optic lights again. This morning I published this one which I quite like. Tell me what you think.
If you have an account of 500px, I would
FTTH is (relatively) cheap!
In case you missed it, here's an opinion piece I posted on the Diffraction Analysis blog last week, about the relative cost of FTTH and why it's (in my opinion) generally not apprehended in the right way. It's called FTTH