Archive for March, 2006

AT&T Plans $1B California Fiber-Optic Upgrade and Verizon Business …

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Financial News USA (press release) - La Puente,CA,USA … provided by Financial News USA (OTC: FNWU) AT&T (NYSE:T) said on Wednesday it will spend up to $1 billion upgrading its California fiber-optic network over the …

Tennessee muni deploys ETI’s Triad for FTTP provisioning

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Lightwave - USA … for the municipality of Bristol, has deployed ETI Software Solutions’ Triad, a service activation system, to automate the provisioning of a FTTP network and …

Comcast Boosts Broadband Speed in Verizon’s FiOS Markets

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Teleclick.ca - Victoria,BC,Canada … “It’sa reaction to FiOS,” said Verizon spokeswoman, Bobbi Henson. “Comcast sees the success we have been having, and they are trying to catch up.”. …

Verizon Expands FiOS TV Availability in Hillsborough County

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

TMCnet - USA Verizon today announced that it expanded its FiOS TV service in Hillsborough County to now provide more than 22,000 households in the Keystone and Alafia areas …

Verizon crews expand

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Bradenton Herald - FL, United States MANATEE - Less than two months after the Bradenton City Council approved Verizon’s franchise allowing it to offer FiOS TV, crews are at work within the city …

Guest Commentary: An alternative for eliminating telephone poles

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Brookline TAB - Needham,MA,USA … into “N” branches. Each outgoing branch fiber will connect to an ONU (or optical network unit) inside the premises. The ONU provides …

Conexant Adds Client-side PON Controllers

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Converge Network Digest - USA Conexant’s “Xenon II” family of controllers is designed for optical network units (ONUs) on the client-side of FTTP, multi-dwelling-unit (MDU) and FTTN EPON/GE …

Comcast Ups Cable Speed to 16Mbit

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

BetaNews - USA In an effort to fend off competition from Verizon’s FiOS service, which offers download speeds of up to 15Mbit per second, Comcast has doubled the speed of its …

Conexant expands its fiber optic access semiconductor portfolio

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

CNS Magazine - Toronto,ON,Canada … is used by service providers to provide a high-speed “last mile” connection from the central office (CO) to homes and businesses over a fiber optic cable, and …

Comcast Increases Broadband Speeds to Compete with FIOS

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

eHomeUpgrade - San Mateo,CA,USA The big news out of Indiana these days is Comcast’s response to Verizon’s FIOS service and its higher-than-cable-modem broadband speeds. …