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

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

Reading too much from the Google Fiber blog?

The Google Fiber blog released an interview of a Google Technical Manager talking about the deployment (in a heavily PR oriented way) a few days ago entitled: A Construction Update. It's frustratingly short and although it leaves me wondering

Here Be Fiber

Bill Schrier (@billschrier) posted the following photo on twitter.

I have long been saying that real-estate in general and temporary accomodation in particular hadn't grasped the commercial potential of next-generation connectivity. Mark my words though, we will see such adverts

FTTH Council Europe Conference Take-Aways

The Diffraction Analysis Booth

It's been a little over a week since the 2012 edition of the FTTH Council Europe conference ended in Munich. It's been the most attended of the Council's conferences ever, and apparently has become the largest

The growing impact of FTTH

Someone told me recently that an AT&T executive was heard to say that FTTC was their billion dollars mistake. I don't know if there's any truth to it, but one thing I do know is that the impact of the

So this is what 1 Gbps feels like…

Firebrand is trialling 1 Gbps service in Bournemouth over City Fiber Holdings' network. This is what a speedtest on that network looks like.

I have this old blues song in my head now: "I'm gonna mooove…"

Things to expect from the Munich FTTH Council Conference

I'm getty pretty excited at the approach of the Munich FTTH Council Conference on February 14-16th. The first reason is the keynote speech. To be honest, the keynote speakers in previous years (with the exception of Carlota Perez) had failed

My presentation from the IBBT Municipal Fiber Workshop

I have posted my slides from the IBBT municipal fiber workshop in Ghent a few weeks ago on the Diffraction Analysis blog. The keynote speech was entitled The Universal Fiber Revolution. I hope you find it interesting and don't