Embracing the transformative nature of NGA

I was having a nice lunch and involved discussion with a good friend who works with a major equipment vendor the other day, and the discussion, as if often does these days, steered towards vectoring and the impact thereof.

Boosting copper: necessary and dangerous

BBWF Europe next week will clearly be about copper. Virtually every vendor or PR agency that contacted me wanted to brief me on VDSL, vectoring, bonding and all that jazz. Just this morning, Alcatel-Lucent announced their big push in this

Friday Fiber US News Roundup

Clearly, if my stats are to be trusted, no one reads me on a Friday. Still, a few interesting things came up stateside this week (which was actually made last week but I only picked it up today…) which I

Benchmarking 20 NGA Service Providers

There's been a lot of work (and a little wait) involved in the following announcement, but I'm really glad I can now make it. My Yankee Group colleague Vince Vittore and myself have been working hard on a multi-client study

OTE cuts the grass under the Greek Governmen’s feet

Kostas Troulos posted yesterday about OTE's announcement of a VDSL roll-out under the title OTE announces VDSL rollout and upsets Greece's FTTH Plans. I encourage you to read his account of OTE's announcement to roll-out VDSL. What I find