FTTP Opportunities in Asia Pacific

Diffraction Analysis partnered with the Broadband Asia event held in Bangkok on April 24-25th. In the run up to the event, I will be sharing some thoughts about market trends in Asia.

Asia Pacific is a paradox when it comes

Fiber broadband drives higher satisfaction and advanced usage – a quantitative analysis of Swedish broadband user behaviour

Fiber broadband drives higher satisfaction and advanced usage is subtitled “a quantitative analysis of Swedish broadband user behavior”.
It is the first ever (as far as we’re aware) comparative survey of FTTP and DSL broadband users looking into

Don’t put your trust in on-demand FTTP…

One of the most interesting features of this week’s alternative NBN plan published by the Australian opposition (see my article Australia’s NBN becomes a political football on Telecom TV) is this notion of “on-demand FTTP”.

On paper, there’s a lot

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

Free Report: World of Fiber 2012

Fiber to the premises (FTTP) has become a major differentiator in the access market. The list of countries with significant FTTP deployment grows every year, and 2011 was no exception. Overall, however, FTTP deployment is growing far more slowly than

World of Fiber 2012 is out!

A quick note to let you know that our annual free report on the state of FTTP deployments around the world is out: you can get it here!

Here's the blurb in case you don't know what I'm talking about:

The Accelerating Stall of the French FTTH Deployment

Being based in France, the French broadband market is inevitably one of the ones I know instinctively the best. I (and many others) have been saying for a while that the numerous announcements made around NGA in the last few

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

Hyperoptic: Hypercool or Hyperbole?

UK company Hyperoptic announced yesterday that its FTTH first customers were going live in Wandsworth, London, in a 133 flat estate called Price's Court. The UK tech press gave the announcement some coverage today, though not a huge amount, it

UK FTTP scene crowded… with intentions!

Lately the UK broadband scene has seen a number of projects emerge. There's the Fujitsu/Virgin/Talk Talk announcement, the rebirth of CityFibre from the Ashes of i3, and now this new one called HyperOptic. In fact there are at least