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| "200 Mbps is the new 100 Mbps" |
| Written by Dave Burstein |
| Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:24 |
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Reggefiber in Zeewolde is introducing 200 megabits symmetric in Zeewolde, using fiber home. In Lithuania, TEO Lintel is also offering 200 This is a worldwide movement driven by technical advances. Anywhere you have fiber - or really good copper - speeds are ready to go up. Todd Spangler at Multichannel News is reporting cable is working on gigabits (shared) over coax. Google's Sergey Brin is the U.S. face of gigabit fiber and I know two small carriers ready to unleash gigabit to the home. Occam has shipped 100,000 ports in the U.S. ready to offer a full gig. Mike Quigley in Australia is ready to reconfigure the Australian national network to a gig. Packetfront, which supplies Reggefiber, the Emirates and a dozen north European fiber providers with gear designed up to a gig per home, just raised €9.5M in new financing.
Where competition is weak, progress is much slower. I'm horrified that Verizon has recently canceled plans for several million lines of fiber.
I've asked Genachowski what plans he has to reverse that decision, which is driven by the sucession or sale decision at Verizon more than the underlying economics.
Broadband Properties retains a focus on broadband technologies for buildings and communities but in practice covers all the major fiber deployment. Editor Steve Ross is passionate about the deployment of fiber as well as keeping readers up to date. The result is a must-read magazine that is the inspiration of this article. http://bit.ly/awUKHr This week is their once a year event, The Broadband Properties Summit in Dallas.
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megabits over parts of a network reaching 1/3rd of the country, expanding rapidly with Telia Sonera money behind them. This information, and the title quote, is from Broadband Properties, which has emerged as the leading publication on fiber deployments.