It seems that the days of Borat are over: state of the art fiber infrastructure is being deployed into the homes of Astana, the capital city. Not much is known about this project except that the infrastructure is an Alcatel
Eircom launches FTTH open access pilot
I'll be honest, I was surprised to see that Eircom was launching an open access FTTH pilot. They announced this earlier this week, as you can see from this press release. Why am I surprised ? I guess mostly
Definitive Views on GPON vs EP2P…
If you were one of the early followers of Fiberevolution, you know that one of the first "visible" posts explored the issue of incumbent GPON deployment.I did not know it back then (although I found out real fast!), but I
Deutsche Telekom deploys FTTH… in Slovakia!
A third P2P incumbent in Europe
Last week I mentioned Telia Sonera's announced P2P deployment saying that it was the second incumbent in Europe after KPN to choose Ethernet Point to Point for their national roll-out. Turns out I was wrong. For some reason I was
“Lifetime Value” of Fiber
Commenting on my post last week about the Keymile PON vs EP2P white paper, Frank raises a very good point about who I was talking about when I used the term Option Value. It's a really insightful comment
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