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FTTH deploymenTs Highlights From the Fiber Deployment Roundup Blog Since the last issue … • Google started FTTH deployment in Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. • DISH Network launched a video offering on the UTOPIA open-access network. Deployer SpotlIGHt – From the Fiber Deployment Roundup NorTH aMerICaN Deployers Allo Communications www.allocommunications.com Bell Aliant www. bellaliant.ca Bell Canada www. bce.ca Bristol Tennessee Essential Services www.btes.net BVU Authority www.bvu-optinet.com Bulloch Telephone Cooperative www.bulloch.net Co-Mo Electric Cooperative www.co-mo.coop Consolidated Communications www.consolidated.com Crown Point Telephone www.crownpointtelephone.com Darien Telephone Company www.darientelephone.com F&B Communications www.fbcom.net Gervais Telephone Company www.gervaistel.com Google www.google.com Greenlight (city of Wilson, N.C.) www.greenlightnc.com GVTC www.gvtc.com Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska www.ioway.nativeweb.org/ iowayksne.htm Lake Region Electric Cooperative www.lrecok.coop Lit San Leandro www.litsanleandro.com Montana Opticom www.mt-opticom.com Northern Arkansas Telephone www.natconet.com Optimum Lightpath www.optimumlightpath.com Ponderosa Telephone Company www.goponderosa.com San Carlos Apache Telephone Utility www.scatui.com Shawnee Telephone Company www.shawneetelco.com Socket Telecom www.socket.net Stoneham Cooperative Telephone Corporation 970-735-2251 • Lit San Leandro – a unique public-private partnership in California that is providing fiber broadband to businesses – lit its first building. • Hong Kong Broadband Network embraced OTT content providers and bandwidth hogs. • And more – see it all on BBCmag.com. Special report: Gig.U Gets rolling In 2011, BroadBand Communities reported on the launch of Gig.U, an ambitious effort by several dozen university communities across the U.S. to acquire next-generation networks. The project founders were inspired by the belief Telmex www.telmex.com Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company www.tgtel.com United Electric Cooperative www.ueci.coop UTOPIA www.utopianet.org Valu-Net www.myvalunet.com Vermont Telephone Company www.vermontel.com Wilkes Telephone & Electric Company www.nu-z.net INTerNaTIoNal Deployers Affärsverken www.affarsverken.se/English Bharat Telecom www.btl.mu BT www.bt.com CAIW www.caiway.nl CEdiS www.cedis.info CityFibre Holdings www.cityfibreholdings.com Deutsche Telekom www.telekom.com Enable Services www.enablenetworks.co.nz Energie in sachsen www.eins-energie.de Hong Kong Broadband Network www.ctigroup.com.hk INS4U Group www.ins4u.pl/en/home JT Group www.jtglobal.com Köpings Kabel-TV www.koping.net P&TLuxembourg www.pt.lu Palm Hills Developments www.phdint.com Solidere www.solidere.com Telecomunications Services of Trinidad & Tobago www.tstt.co.tt WestStar TV www.weststartv.com/index.asp 12 | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | www.broadbandcommunities.com | March/april 2012 To stay up-to-date on news about FTTH projects, see the FIBer DeployMeNT blog at BBCmag.com. that the intellectual capital located in university communities could combine big data with big bandwidth to drive big
FTTH deploymenTs VeNDor SpotlIGHt – From the Fiber Deployment Roundup ActiveMania www.activemania.com ADTRAN www.adtran.com Alcatel-Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.com Calix www.calix.com Cisco www.cisco.com Clearfield www.clearfieldconnection.com Clearleap www.clearleap.com Cygate www.cygategroup.com ETI Software Solutions www.etisoftware.com improvements in the economy and society; they also thought university communities had such natural advantages as high density, high bandwidth demands and pre-existing network assets. By aggregating demand and finding ways to streamline deployment costs, these communities hoped to make themselves even more attractive for deployers. Gig.U issued a request for information in September with the intention of publicizing the project and testing the industry’s response to the concept. It received responses in December. sTroNG INTeresT FroM THe prIVaTe seCTor In a recent report to the participating communities, the project team said it found strong interest from the private sector. Fifty-seven responses were received from incumbent last-mile service providers, equipment manufacturers, infrastructure providers, network operators, thought leaders and nonprofits. More than half the respondents were existing service providers, including eight national telcos and MSOs. To upgrade their infrastructure to nextgeneration levels, telcos said they might need waivers of regulations (for example, some wanted to use microtrenching techniques) as well as access to multifamily properties, IP or branding rights. MSOs said they might require local assistance in transitioning from analog to digital video to increase available bandwidth. Potential new entrants had different requirements. They were interested in communities where incumbents were not planning to upgrade their infrastructure, where a specified number of households and businesses would preregister for the new services and where community stakeholders supported the project. They also needed access to rights of way, shared use of existing fiber and other assets, regulatory relief from zoning requirements and franchise restrictions, and favorable underground policies. Some responders were willing to pursue open-services models, such as constructing dark fiber rings, building FTTP networks and selling services to competitive retail providers, or building fiber to anchor institutions and using these as points of presence for wireless mesh networks. Responders also offered specific ideas about serving multifamily housing. Ideally, they wanted to offer bulk services bundled into tenants’ rent. They also suggested that communities offer incentives to property owners to let competitive providers into their buildings and that student housing networks be able to peer directly with university networks. NexT sTeps The RFI process illuminated technology options – some already available, some in development – that communities could consider and also outlined steps universities and communities could take, individually or in collaboration, to improve the business case for investment in next-generation networks. However, potential vendors needed much more community-specific information about existing infrastructure, demand for next-generation services, priorities, regulatory environments and possible incentives. Some communities are already in negotiations or in-depth conversations with vendors about potential upgrades or de- FCA www.fca.com.pl Genexis www.genexis.eu Huawei www.huawei.com Microsoft www.microsoft.com Netadmin Systems www.netadminsystems.com PacketFront www.packetfront.com Viamedia www.viamediatv.com Zhone Technologies www.zhone.com ployments; these communities may pursue individual agreements rather than waiting for group decisions. Others are interested in issuing RFPs or otherwise engaging with vendors to work toward agreements or partnerships. Still others may drop out of the process based on the responses received. A follow-up vendor meeting was held in late March (information was not available at press time) to help communities clarify their next steps. The Gig.U team was cautiously optimistic, saying that though it’s too soon to know whether next-generation networks will be economically feasible in any or all of the communities, all the communities can clearly improve their odds by removing barriers to deployment. The report says, “Nothing in the responses suggests there are insurmountable obstacles to deploying next-generation networks in any Gig.U community. Members should be cautious, however, in assuming that the communities that seemed to receive the most interest have the greatest chance of success.… “Furthermore, all respondents made clear they viewed Phase I as the beginning of a process; future efforts and additional information about member communities and their preferences could attract additional interest from vendors who did not respond initially or alter the preferences of those who did. For these reasons, the results of Phase I provide sufficient justification for most, if not all, members to continue pursuing the goal of bringing next-generation networks to their communities.” Read the full Gig.U report on the RFI responses at www.scribd.com/glen_echo/ d/81595412-Gig-U-Public-Report-on- RFI-Results March/april 2012 | www.broadbandcommunities.com | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | 13
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