FTTP Shootout - Active Ethernet Vs PON
White Papers Triple play rollouts are one of the bright spots in the global telecom industry. Carriers and municipalities that announce plans to rollout triple play (voice, video and data) services are faced with a number of choices for an access mechanism...
[July 31, 2009, 1:22]
BT sets date for brownfield fibre trials
News Highams Park in north-east London had already been named by BT for its first brownfield fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) trial, and Thursday's announcement adds Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes. This rollout will consist of both FTTP, which involves...
[October 2, 2009, 17:39]
BT's fibre-to-the-cabinet pilot goes live
News The choice of FTTC is something of a compromise between this existing setup and fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), where fibre cables are laid all the way to the customer's building. FTTP is more expensive to roll out, but it would offer even higher...
[July 6, 2009, 16:15]
Are you talking about..
Talkback Virgin actually laying FTTP or FTTC? as far as I understand it for the area that I'm in Comcast originally laid the cables in this area, and that was FTTC and thick steel coated copper lines x2 per household.
[October 12, 2009, 9:56]
BT to run fast fibre to 2.5m homes
News The fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) rollout will bring broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps by 2012, with possible future speeds of 1Gbps, depending on commercial demand, BT said in its announcement on Friday.
[October 9, 2009, 16:57]
Jump seen in global fixed broadband connections
News According to the research firm, fibre-based services will grow steadily over the next few years, with FTTH (fibre-to-the-home), FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) and Ethernet connections accounting for about 20 percent of the global consumer broadband...
[September 25, 2009, 15:09]
Work begins on Bournemouth fibre network
News The scheme will give the town's residents a chance to connect to an FTTP (fibre to the premises) network, built by H2O Networks, with speeds up to 100Mbps. For the residents of Bournemouth, super high-speed internet access is creeping closer after...
[October 20, 2008, 9:33]
BT fibre broadband coming to 69 more towns
News Almost 70 exchanges have been named to receive fibre broadband, using a mixture of fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC). The more expensive option, FTTP, could theoretically bring downstream speeds of up to 100Mbps and...
[July 9, 2009, 18:20]
Chipset brings fibre closer to homes
News Verizon Communications and SBC Communications have announced plans to construct "fibre to the premises," or FTTP, networks, but large-scale installations are still a long way off. Freescale Semiconductor, a spinoff of Motorola, has developed an...
[June 22, 2004, 9:15]
