Douglas L Ross: Fiber Optics

Alloptic Patents

Tue, 08 Jul 2003 20:47:21 GMT

Alloptic announced today that they have been awarded U.S. Patent 6,470,032 for "transporting legacy time division multiplexing (TDM) services over Ethernet-based passive optical networks (EPON)."

RBOCs FTTH RFP

Thu, 29 May 2003 20:11:11 GMT

Bell South, Verizon and SBC put out press releases today announcing a "joint RFP" for FTTH equipment. Here are the three versions of this announcement:

Verizon http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=80434

SBC http://www.sbc.com/press_room/1,5932,31,00.html?query=20507

Bell South http://bellsouthcorp.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=43087

Ananex acquiring Alcatel and Corning Optical Units

Fri, 16 May 2003 20:41:13 GMT

Avanex is acquiring the optical businesses of Corning and Alcatel for stock representing about 45% of Avanex's value or $65 million. They are acquiring optical components, modules and subsystems for fiber optic transmission networks that should enable Avanex to offer one of the broadest lines of optical and intelligent photonic solutions for enhancing speed and capacity of optical communications systems. Avanex products will now include optical wavelength generation and modulation, multiplexing and demultiplexing, signal amplification, wavelength routing and dispersion compensation.

Verizon To Expand Broadband Services

Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:59:37 GMT

Verizon announced that it intends to increase it's Broadband DSL coverage by 10 million homes [up 28%] from 36 million homes to 46 million by the end of 2003, giving it Broadband coverage of ~80% of homes in its service area. They also announced that

"The company will put DSL equipment in more than 3,000 neighborhood terminals that are connected to the Verizon network with fiber-optic cables, and it will put DSL equipment in approximately 1,000 additional neighborhood switching centers."
"Verizon is exploring ways to advance its broadband deployment in 2004, including deploying fiber into neighborhoods and even bringing fiber to the premises of an initial set of customers."

Tandberg TV Pitching xDSL and FTTH Products At NAB

Thu, 20 Mar 2003 18:46:23 GMT

At NAB, TANDBERG Television is pitching something they call iTTV [basically a digital headend for interactive television delivery with ATM/IP delivery, transport stream descrambling, high-quality encoding and bit-rate changing, etc. ] aimed at commercial xDSL and FTTH (fiber to the home) deployments. They claim design wins at FastWeb [Italy's largest telecommunications company} and Lyse a power utility company offering video, voice and data via FTTH. They also announced the launch a dedicated real-time hardware-based encoding platform for Windows Media 9.

FTTH Penetration Study

Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:18:27 GMT

A FTTH Council press release today announced the results of a study on FTTH by Render Vanderslice & Associates. Here's an exerpt...

WASHINGTON – March 18, 2003 – The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council has updated its running list of “U.S. Optical Fiber Communities” with 20 new communities, bringing the current total to 70 communities in 20 states. The list, which was prepared by Render, Vanderslice and Associates of Tulsa, Okla. and first released in August 2002, tracks communities nationwide that are meeting growing consumer demand for broadband through FTTH solutions.

Free Space Optics

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 21:06:07 GMT

Wired reporting about another Free-Space-Optics attempt to http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57860,00.html

Spectrum Auctions or Spectrum Commons

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 14:59:46 GMT

Spectrum allocation draws intense debate [InfoWorld: Top News]

Rochester Telephone To Deploy Wave7 FTTH Gear

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:56:56 GMT

Small operator in Indiana announces FTTH plan.