FTTH in Kazakhstan (Would you Believe It?)

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!

For the first time I've seen a firm announcement of numbers for the T-Com FTTH deployment in Slovakia. According to Broadband TV News, T-Com now passes 275 000 homes in Slovakia. According to this press release from earlier this year,

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 and

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. As you probably know if you read me, I have written quite a bit on this