Author: Stephen Wilson
Rene Obermann’s proposal: should Deutsche Telekom be allowed to deploy vectoring in Germany?
After some intense detective work we are ready to revisit the regulatory issues with regard to rollouts of VDSL vectoring. This is a hugely important issue: Rene Obermann, Deutsche Telekom CEO, has indicated that the operator will increase its superfast broadband coverage in Germany to 24 million homes by 2016, double the current 12 million… Read more
G.Fast: a question of commercial radio, manholes, prison sentences and indoor versus outdoor engineers
As interest in G.Fast grows here is a primer on this emerging copper based fixed broadband access technology. For those just starting out with the topic I recommend that you first read this earlier blog post. If we examine G.Fast closely we see that it can be deployed in 3 basic ways, each of which have very… Read more
How viable is wavelength unbundling on FTTH networks asks Stephen Wilson
I have been looking into the Open Lambda Initiative (OLI), NGPON 2 technologies and the fascinating framework that the OLI is creating which would allow multiple operators to each deploy their own active equipment on a PON tree architecture and use different wavelengths on the fibre. This offers a solution to a problem with today’s… Read more
