Magazine: December 2006
Contents of the Winter 2006 issue
FTTH: Europe must open its eyes
Hartwig Tauber of the FTTH Council Europe outlines the deployment status in Europe today and proposes some reasons for Europe's apparent ambivalence.
Optical access: is cost still the sticking point?
Roy Rubenstein investigates why some geographical regions are so far ahead when it comes to FTTH deployment.
Fibre to…wherever makes best economic sense
The exponential thirst for bandwidth has led the broadband industry to a fork in the road. Carriers can take the simplest road and see the past level out for good, or take the fibre road and climb further to meet growing bandwidth demands.
Standards keep pace with network evolution
Change in the demands of today's local-area networking market has prompted a radical overhaul of the standards for structured fibre cabling systems. 3M's Rosemary McGlashon takes a look.