John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Nov 16, 2009, 7:31 am
What used to be called Fiber to the Node or FTTN is now called Fiber to the Cabinet or FTTCab in the ITU standards. The acronym is obviously quite close to that for Fiber to the Curb or FTTC. Luckily,...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Nov 3, 2009, 7:44 am
Standardized by the IEEE and currently capable of rates of up to 15 Mbps, WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a form of 4G broadband wireless access. WiMAX delivers broadband ...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Nov 2, 2009, 6:15 am
Carriers have two fundamental options for extending the reach of a Gigabit PON (GPON) network. One option is to deploy GPON Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) outside of Central Offices (COs). Another opti...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 30, 2009, 7:27 am
Point-to-Point (P2P, also known as Active Fiber) is the simplest of all three Fiber To The Home fundamental architectures. With a point-to-point network architecture, a fiber (typically only a single ...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 28, 2009, 8:13 am
Active Ethernet is one popular way to deliver massive amounts of bandwidth to subscribers over fiber and is a major contender for Fiber to the Home (FTTH) based broadband Internet rollouts.  In the U...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 27, 2009, 8:38 am
RF over Glass (RFoG) is a simple Hybrid Fiber/Coax (HFC) technology that replaces the coax access network with a passive optical network (PON). It is one form of what is known as DOCSIS PON or DPON. W...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 22, 2009, 9:01 am
Net Neutrality (or Network Neutrality or Internet Neutrality), as proposed recently by the FCC, is good for the broadband access carriers. Though this is counter to almost all of the discussion around...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 20, 2009, 7:18 am
The most expensive element in delivering broadband Internet services over fiber optic cable is the access network, and its architecture largely determines how much bandwidth can be delivered to a subs...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 19, 2009, 9:51 am
OneChip Photonics is attempting to revolutionize the access optical transceiver market with their Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology. Unlike other optical access transceiver vendors, OneChi...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 15, 2009, 9:03 am
Carriers have many choices for delivering broadband servies to residential and business subscribers they choose to serve. The majority of broadband services are delivered with ADSL2+ or VDSL2 over tw...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 13, 2009, 7:15 am
ZyXEL recently introduced their model P-2612HW dual WAN Integrated Access Device (IAD). With both ADSL2+ and Ethernet uplinks, it can initially connect to DSL and then later to a FTTH Optical Network...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 12, 2009, 6:46 am
The era of voice driving network investment is over. Voice is here, it is still useful, but it is almost invisible in the design of most networks being built today. Telephony Magazine had it right in ...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 8, 2009, 4:42 pm
The Internet is very good at what it does, though rarely is it given the praise it deserves. More often than not, when people discuss the Internet’s support of an application, they do so to com...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 6, 2009, 9:38 pm
Today, Charles K. Kao was named a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work on fiber optics used in communications. In the 1960s, Kao determined how to transmit light over 100 ...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Oct 5, 2009, 6:37 am
Latency is an often under-appreciated element of the broadband experience and is defined as the time from a stimulus to the completion of its response.  When considering broadband, most people ignore...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 30, 2009, 3:22 pm
At least in the UK, advertising revenue for online Internet marketing has surpassed advertising revenue for television.  In the midst of a recession, a record £1.75B was spent online in the first si...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 30, 2009, 2:44 pm
Threat of Muni FTTH Saves Citizens Money Municipal FTTH can save money for a city’s citizens even before it is deployed.  Terry Huval, director of Lafayette Utilities System (Lafayette is my h...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 29, 2009, 6:23 pm
Light Peak is a new universal fiber optic technology for interconnecting peripherals to personal computers and portable devices.  Apparently it was conceived by Apple and is being implemented by Inte...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 29, 2009, 1:10 pm
Verizon CTO and Metered Broadband Richard Lynch, Verizon’s CTO, spoke at the 2009 FTTH Conference and Expo in Houston, and he indicated that Verizon could eventually move to metered billing on ...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 28, 2009, 9:40 am
Net Neutrality The Washington Post’s lead editorial is on Net Neutrality today. Not my position exactly, but interesting and well written. Ok, let’s think.  What is a good analogy for ...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 27, 2009, 7:54 am
Kabel-X offers an innovative patented process technology for replacing copper cables already in the ground with fiber optic cables. Their technology extracts the copper within installed cables by pump...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 24, 2009, 2:40 pm
Choosing a new broadband network technology is no small task for a carrier.  When moving to a better broadband technology, a carrier must consider what access infrastructure is available and already ...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 23, 2009, 8:58 am
Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) is a Fiber to the Home (FTTH) technology standardized by the ITU-T in its G.984 series. It is popular in North American and around the world, and it competes wit...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 22, 2009, 6:25 am
Passive Optical Network (PON) splitters play an important role in Fiber to the Home (FTTH) networks by allowing a single PON network interface to be shared among many subscribers. Splitters contain no...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 20, 2009, 6:30 pm
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 18, 2009, 5:21 am
The following component vendors (websites all linked below) expressed support for the recent 10G EPON IEEE standard and are likely working on 10G EPON components for ONTs and/or OLTs. Optical Transce...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 18, 2009, 1:53 am
Backbone meshing is one interesting feature of some 802.11n access points.  With meshing, every 802.11n access point need not be connected to an Ethernet cable to reach the Internet.  A meshed netwo...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 17, 2009, 7:08 am
The following vendors (websites all linked below) expressed support for the recent 10G EPON IEEE standard and are likely to be working on 10G EPON systems. Alloptic ARRIS CIG Corecess Dasan Netwo...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 16, 2009, 7:32 pm
The IEEE has finally ratified the 802.11n-2009 amendment to the WiFi standard.  Hard to believe, but work on this amendment has been going on since 2002.  Vendors can finally ship standard 802.11n d...
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John Bartell posted an article on FTTxtra - Sep 16, 2009, 7:08 am
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance develops standards (called MoCA v1.0, v1.1, etc.) for home networking on 75 ohm analog cable TV coax. Established in 2004, MoCA is a well-respected organization with...
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