THIS MONTH

President’s Letter
From NYC to Dubai
Fiber is the Future
By Scott DeGarmo, President & CEO
The Summit was the perfect venue to get the big picture on broadband.

Editor’s Note
Verizon’s $23 Billion
Mousetrap Just Caught A Big One
By Steven S. Ross, Editor-in-Chief
More than a year ago – in April 2007 – this page took a snarky “look back from 2012.” One key prediction was that Verizon would become the “CLEC from Hell,” over building (and cherry picking) AT&T and Qwest with FiOS where it made business sense.

EXCLUSIVE BROADBAND SUMMIT COVERAGE
You had to be there. Undaunted by the slowdown in Greenfield construction – where fiber is no more expensive than copper to deploy – service providers, property owners and government officials outlines their plans for deploying fiber in dense urban and sparse rural areas. The business cases, they say, are stronger than ever despite the overall economy’s weakness. The drivers include new fiber technology, lower interest rates and construction costs, and strong revenue projections. Even Business Week took note. Missed it? Read more than 40 pages right here. It’s the next-best thing.

Providers Perspective
Where Are the Real Entrepreneurs? Right Here!
By Bryan J. Rader, Bandwidth Consulting LLC
Private cable operators seem to be leading the way in innovative services right now; the best the NCTA could do was a scantily dressed girl in a giant martini glass.

First Mile
The worldwide market for broadband equipment – especially fiber-based broadband – is surging. But disentangle percentage growth rates from unit growth to see where the best opportunities are.

Why We Need More Fiber
Coming Soon…One Billion Viewers For Online Video
Non-FTTH network operators (the latest is AT&T) are trying to limit “bandwidth hogs.” ABI’s Cesar Bachelet calls this approach self-defeating, and says it will produce resentment from subscribers and defections from operators’ services.

Fiber Deployment Roundup
Wired and Inspired
It’s hard not to be inspired after seeing the lengths to which fiber-to-the-home deployers will go to bring ultra-broadband services to residents – even when some incumbents don’t want to.

Policy
Responding to the Exaflood
By Lawrence Kingsley, Contributing Editor
An Internet Innovation Alliance panel in New York last month noted that network growth nationally is about 19 percent a year – but that traffic is growing at 40 percent annually, or more.

TECHNOLOGY

Breaking the Broadband Bottleneck with
Next-Gen In-Home Structured Cabling
By Mark Hawley, Telect
Forget all the bad habits you learned deploying coax. Today’s broadband-enabled home needs straight-run cabling back to the point where fiber enters the dwelling unit. And a little attention to detail – color-coding the Cat 5 cable, for instance – cuts the future truck rolls.

From O to L:
The Future of Optical-Wavelength Bands
By Laurent Gasca, Draka
Another in our series of articles showing how fiber gets to be so future-proof. Intercity and metro ring fiber already use multiple wavelengths to increase bandwidth. Vendors are preparing for the day when fiber entering the home will do the same. It’s closer than you think.

32-PAGES — FIBER TO THE HOME SPECIAL PUBLICATION
Our world-renowned primer, newly updated, is now available as a digital edition.
Advantages of Optical Access 2008
The updated and expanded edition of the classic fiber primer, sponsored by the Fiber-to-the-Home-Council, covers the key economic and technical issues surrounding fiber to the home. It’s the best tool available if you need to educate clients and policymakers, and build consensus for deploying fiber.

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Broadband Applications for Energy Management
And Sustainability
Constant monitoring of electricity use can save consumers money and reduce the need for new power plants. It can also help save the planet.

Beyond the Triple Play:
New Broadband Applications for Property Owners and Developers
Great ideas you can implement now: Technology support for connected homes; concierge home health services; virtual bulleting board.

New Twists for IPTV
180Squared shows the way to reduce time-to-revenue for your IPTV implementation – and to begin introducing value-added services on top of basic video.

Here’s a glimpse of others who made the news:

Occam Networks
Wave7 Optics
Enablence