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BROADBAND PROPERTIES is the leading source of information on digital and broadband technologies for buildings and communities. Our editorial aims to accelerate the deployment of Fiber-To-The-Home and Fiber-To-The-Premises while keeping readers up to date on the available solutions capable of serving their practical needs. BP offers in-depth news, expert insights, and practical know-how on the technical, business, financial, and legal aspects of outfitting properties and communities with broadband solutions. With a focus on residential buildings, developments, and municipalities, BP helps the large-scale and wholesale buyers and users of broadband technologies, equipment, and services competitively distinguish their properties and communities in a rapidly changing marketplace.
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| Broadband Properties Magazine July 2008 Issue |
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 CLICK HERE to download a PDF of the complete July issue.
THIS MONTH
President’s Letter
Don’t Miss Workshop
On New Applications
By Scott DeGarmo, President & CEO
Editor’s Note
Cable and FTTH:
Perfect Together
By Steven S. Ross, Editor-in-Chief
For the past four years we have, of course, been saying that only fiber to the home will provide the bandwidth and quality of service demanded by customers. For the past year we have detailed problems cable companies – particularly large franchise operators (MSOs) – have had even serving existing customers’ bandwidth needs. Every major MSO has rationed at least upstream bandwidth.
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COVER STORY
The BBP Top 100 Companies for 2008
Which companies will make a difference in the fiber broadband industry in the coming year? This year’s list includes more than 25 new companies, including some that build fiber networks and others that market innovative solutions for deploying fiber. Noted this year: New technologies that help install fiber in MDUs, integrate fiber into CATV networks, automate fiber management, and get fiber into the ground faster.
In addition to the Top 100, you'll find lists of many other leading companies in the fields of network and subscriber management; test equipment; central-office, outside plant and customer-premises equipment; fiber and fiber cables; and video programming aggregation.
And we haven’t forgotten about the applications that are driving the demand for bandwidth. Next month, we'll publish our first annual list of leading broadband application providers.
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Provider Perspective
A New Discovery for the Lab
By Bryan J. Rader, Bandwidth Consulting LLC
If private cable operators formed their own version of CableLabs, they could more easily tackle common technical issues.
First Mile
Approaching the Zettabyte Era:
Looking Ahead to 2012
Global IP traffic will nearly double every two years through 2012, says Cisco. What’s driving the growth? Video on demand is a major factor, but there are others, too.
Why We Need More Fiber
Industry Believes Consumers
Want Raw Bandwidth More Than HDTV
Providers’ ad dollars may go to promoting HD channels – but bandwidth “seals the deal.”
Fiber Deployment Roundup
Cable Fights and Switches
By Masha Zager, Broadband Properties
Cable providers experiment with FTTH, trying to find out how and where to deploy it economically.
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NEW BBP FEATURE –
Municipal FTTH Deployment Snapshot
DiamondNet, Sallisaw, Oklahoma
An in-depth look at a municipal fiber deployment: DiamondNet serves Sallisaw with local video content, and achieves take rates of 50 percent.
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FIBER TO THE HOME
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.
Click to Download PDF
Click to Access Digital Edition.
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| THE LAW
MDU Owners Can Hit a Home Run
By Carl Kandutsch, DirecPath LLC
Does the end of video exclusivity mean property owners can bring in competitive providers? Not necessarily – but they may get some help from another recent FCC ruling.
It’s All in the Contract: All-Star Legal Panel Charts the
Latest Course for Providers and MDU Owners
At the Broadband Summit in April, nine high-powered communications lawyers talked about how MDU owners and providers can negotiate win/win contracts in an uncertain legal environment.
TECHNOLOGY
Cable Industry Signals Move to FTTH
By Steven S. Ross, Editor-in-Chief
Vendors introduce a new class of equipment designed to help cable providers move into FTTH seamlessly and cost effectively.
New Options for Big Broadband
By Masha Zager, Broadband Properties
Mushroom Networks and Rainbow Broadband offer scalable options for delivering bandwidth to MDUs and MTUs.
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| BROADBAND APPS
Broadband for Health Monitoring
By Mary Farley, Steeplechase Networks
Seniors can live more independently thanks to new broadband applications in housing and care facilities.
Optimizing the Broadband Experience –
in Real Time
A BBP Staff Report
If subscribers aren't getting the service levels they expect, can you tell them why? Xangati can.
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July News and Views
Zhone Releases Metro WiFi System with Integrated Backhaul
Here's a glimpse of others who made the news:
Ericsson
CommScope
Alloptic
ECI Telecom
JDSU
Calix
ADC
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