Brisbane, Australia’s Sewers Could Become New Fiber Conduit
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Brisbane, Australia has decided that when it comes to its broadband connectivity, the connection it needs might be riding right in their city’s sewer lines. The country’s third-largest city is looking at how it can connect its residents to a Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network carried through its sewer pipes. Here’s the kicker: it [...]
AT&T Wants to Squeeze 80 Mbps Out of Copper
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According to reports in Broadband DSL Reports and Reuters, AT&T is going to trial an 80 Mbps DSL service next year. This proposed speed far surpasses its top 24 Mbps speed and Verizon’s 50 Mbps FiOS offering.
Topics: AT&T, Verizon, telecom, telecommunications, FTTH
Shaw Vetting FTTH for All New Builds
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US towns and cities are going ga-ga for Google’s 1-Gig experiment, but north of the border, Shaw Communications Inc. is already laying the foundation to test out such lofty speeds in markets such as Vancouver and Calgary, and is crafting a plan to eventually use fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) architectures in all its “greenfield” opportunities.
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Lisbon, Portugal Getting Gigabit FTTH
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This morning the service here on site was averaging between 600 Mbit/s and 700 Mbit/s, and peaking at about 800 Mbit/s (according to an on-screen meter), which would put the number of end-user connections served by a 2.5-Gbit/s GPON port at a maximum of four. (Indeed, the demo booth here had four terminals up [...]
Google’s FTTH: Does Huawei Win?
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Google is notorious for demanding low prices and threatening to build the equipment itself if that demand isn’t met. (“There’s not a lot of love between systems vendors and Google,” Griliches says.) Huawei is famous for undercutting the competition on price. It would be an easy matchup.
Topics: North America, Google, FTTH, Huawei
