CYBERCITY, MAURITIUS – Mauritius, an island republic in the Indian Ocean, was once known as the home of the dodo, a flightless bird quickly made extinct by the European explorers who discovered it. Now, the country is...
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TOKYO – OKI announced the development of an adaptive network configuration technology that...
Read MoreBEIJING –Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a large, publicly owned telecommunications company in India, launched triple-play services over FTTH in late July using Gigabit EPON technology from UTStarcom Holdings....
Read MoreCAMPBELL, CA – The first quarter of 2011 saw a shift in the broadband aggregation equipment market from DSL to PON, according to market research firm Infonetics Research. A dramatic drop in DSL ports in China is evidence...
Read MoreTORONTO, CANADA — Despite recently announcing that it was seeking to divest its FTTH systems division, equipment supplier Enablence Technologies continues to expand its product line by adding new optical network terminals...
Read MoreREDWOOD CITY, CA – The PON market posted record revenues of almost $800 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a new report by research firm Dell’Oro Group. The market’s continued upward trajectory was...
Read MoreSAN JOSE, CA — A new digital video solution lets cable companies deliver IP video over fiber to QAM-ready television sets. Vendors call this a cost-effective solution for cable companies to deliver high-quality video in...
Read MoreIRVINE, CA — The first 10G EPON system-on-chip for an optical network unit (ONU) was announced by semiconductor maker Broadcom Corporation. The chipset, which delivers 10 times the bandwidth of today’s EPON solutions...
Read MoreLOUISVILLE, CO — After several years of experimentation with fiber to the premises, it appears that the cable industry is ready to standardize its approach to fiber. For several years, cable companies have gravitated toward...
Read MoreREDWOOD CITY, CA — First-quarter GPON revenues from both optical line terminals (central-office equipment) and optical network terminals (customer-premises equipment) surpassed EPON revenues for the first time and hit a...
Read MoreSANTA CLARA, CA — Electronics vendor Hitachi Communication Technologies America Inc. (HCTA) offers many flavors of PON equipment, including EPON, DePON (EPON hardware supporting DOCSIS software), MW-PON (wave-division...
Read MoreSAN JOSE, CAÂ — Rising demand for bandwidth-intensive triple-play content has strained legacy communications networks and caused infrastructure bottlenecks. A new report from Global Industry Analysts says service providers...
Read MorePISCATAWAY, NJ -Â The IEEE Standards Association has formed a working group to develop a standard for making EPON equipment interoperable. The new communications standard will be known as IEEE P1904.1, “Standard for...
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Campbell, CA — The PON equipment market is roaring back to health after two slightly down...
Read MoreREDWOOD CITY, CA - According to a new report by Dell’Oro Group, total PON equipment revenues from sales of optical line terminals (OLTs) and optical network terminals  (ONTs) were the highest ever in the third quarter of...
Read MoreDENVER — Another new fiber-to-the-home solution for cable TV providers was announced by  ZTE USA, a subsidiary of Chinese telecom equipment vendor ZTE. This DOCSIS-compliant EPON solution lets MSOs deploy fiber optic...
Read MoreSANTA CLARA, CA -Â Hitachi Communication Technologies America (HCTA) announced a new line of optical network terminals (ONTs) for its DePON fiber access systems. DePON (or D-PON, as some vendors refer to it) uses an EPON...
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CAMPBELL, CA – The PON equipment market recovered in the second quarter, thanks mainly to China....
Read MorePISCATAWAY, NJ — The next generation of fiber to the home moved a step closer as more than 40 companies and organizations involved with the IEEE 10G-EPON Task Force celebrated completion of the new 802.3av-2009 standard,...
Read MoreREDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Strong EPON shipments to China and Japan propelled 2Q09 revenue for access equipment, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group. The industry as a whole – including DSL, cable and...
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