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Killer Apps?
Talkback Take for example the Swedish town of Vasteras where the local fibre network can be used to access more than 86 services from 30 different suppliers - many of whom are offering niche services alongside the more obvious TV and Telephony services.
[February 27, 2008, 14:54]
Wireless Business Helps Verizon Profits Soar
News Verizon added 233,000 fibre-TV customers for a total of 1.6 million customers. Verizon's Fios, fibre-to-the-home service, helped take up the slack on some of these losses. It also added another 225,000 fibre internet subscribers for a total of 2.2...
[October 28, 2008, 8:14]
Supercomm Diversifies As Telcos Suffer
News Last Thursday, BellSouth, SBC and Verizon said they've agreed to use the same framework of fibre-optic hardware and software, and do much of the legwork together, as they expand their networks. Another economic salve to be suggested at Supercomm...
[June 3, 2003, 12:26]
Q&A: Bell Labs Eyes Broadband's Future
News Fibre to the home is meant to deliver high-speed Web access -- even cable TV. So delivering that on fibre is probably going to be a demanding application, but one which fibre can easily do. The fibre for the premises technology of Verizon, SBC and...
[June 13, 2003, 13:24]
Photos: Inside BT's World Of Innovation
News One problem BT found with the deployment of its fibre-based next-generation network is that, unlike an electricity-conducting copper infrastructure, individuals strands of fibre are impossible to identify by traditional means.
[September 26, 2006, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It was going to be the model for the way we worked and lived into the 21st century -- roundabouts, roads designed in a grid system, cable TV, fibre-optic links, new-fangled aluminium phone lines, and concrete cows.
[March 5, 2004, 16:20]
Mediaset Tunes Into Cisco Systems For Next-Generation TV Production Network
White Papers The new fibre optic network, based on Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical technology, will help remove some of the bottlenecks and weather-based transmission issues experienced with the microwave radio-based links it replaces.
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Superfast DSL Shows Its Pace
News Aimed at in-building and densely populated urban applications, VDSL -- very high speed digital subscriber line -- is designed to connect buildings through telephone lines to nearby hubs in exchanges, or on the street, containing fibre backbones.
[March 11, 2002, 14:00]
Microsoft And NTL Join Forces
News The company currently has 1.4 million telephone, cable television and Internet customers and a fibre optic network worth £3bn. This partnership will enable Microsoft to become more involved in the digital TV arena," a spokesman for NTL said.
[January 26, 1999, 17:26]
Japans Broadband Total Tops 10 Million
News The total number of subscribers for fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services rose by 60,000 in June to 458,293, up from May and April, while cable TV Internet subscribers increased by 41,000 in June to 2.2 million.
[August 7, 2003, 12:10]
The Other Network
Talkback We are now at the stage where the cable company fibre network should be included with the BT network for (what a horrible word) commercialisation. If there is argument against this on the grounds of technical difficulty then the same argument may...
[February 26, 2008, 15:13]
BT Says No To Traffic Shaping
News Another solution that some have claimed could ease network congestion is fibre to the premises, known generically as FTTx, but Beal appeared to dismiss the idea of that becoming a widespread reality any time soon.
[April 12, 2007, 17:52]
Asus Focuses On Green Laptop Design
News Other laptops launched by Asus included a leather-bound notebook called the S6, and a computer with a carbon fibre chassis. The W2Jc has an aluminium chassis, a subwoofer built into the base, and a hybrid TV tuner that has a digital and analogue...
[February 23, 2006, 11:50]
100Mbps Broadband A Reality By 2007
News DOCSIS3 works over hybrid fibre co-axial cable, but Telewest is also planning to upgrade its Ethernet service to allow users to plug Ethernet cable straight into the back of a computer without the need of a modem.
[September 23, 2005, 16:55]
Broadband Technologies Vie For Dominance
News Italian metro Ethernet company FastWeb, a subsidiary of e.Biscom, has cabled the whole of Milan with fibre and has extensive fibre networks in five other Italian cities, over which it is delivering voice, video-on-demand and data at 10Mbps to...
[October 31, 2002, 9:36]
Fibreless Optical Data Transfer Mooted
News Unlike fibre, LEDs, which emit bright light and consume little power, are expected to be everywhere soon. Most have spent their time trying to wring more performance out of fibre. Conceivably, entire movies could be shuttled from one TV to another...
[October 6, 2004, 9:40]
IPTV Trundles On
News Verizon has been aggressively building a new all-fibre network called Fios, which is way ahead of AT&T both in terms of subscribers and features offered. They'll be able to interact with television shows, choose multiple camera angles while...
[June 19, 2007, 11:57]
Hitachi Rolls Out Massive Hard Drive
News That class of equipment has lower performance and is less reliable than systems with drives using the SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) or Fibre Channel interfaces, but it's faster for data recoveries than magnetic tape storage.
[March 10, 2004, 7:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I content myself with looking up the specifications of the set-top box on the Web, the intricacies of hybrid fibre coax distribution systems and the format of their authentication schemes for pay-per-view.
[April 18, 1998, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I content myself with looking up the specifications of the set-top box on the Web, the intricacies of hybrid fibre coax distribution systems and the format of their authentication schemes for pay-per-view.
[April 18, 1998, 7:00]
