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A press release from Amino adds to the OTT discussion, or more generally: IP-based services replacing dedicated networks (PSTN, CATV). Is OTT a threat, an opportunity, or something in between for traditional video network operators?The OTT sector can be subdivided in three groups:Start-ups. There are dozens, including at least three in the Netherlands: UCD, Stream Group, and a promising newcomer:

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Vindication for Cisco's TelePresence: Southbank Sinfonia doing auditions via the system. Candidates were in Sydney, the orchestra is based in London.Latency issues make you wonder how an opera performance such as below can be done.On-net over fiber, latency can be as low as 3 ms, which seems fine.

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Polar Communications of Park River (North Dakota) is ordering FTTH gear from Occam Networks. What makes it especially remarkable is this quote from the press release:Polar realised its long term FTTN strategy would be unable to keep up with future demand. The solution was a shift to a FTTP strategy that began two years ago and will continue with the current Occam deployment.It is a GPON

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Ams-IX traffic has recently broken a new barrier, the 800 Gb/s level. In fact, the peak level has almost reached 850 Gb/s.

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When people start estimating smartphone sales for the next few years, I am tempted to throw in my own personal prediction: the smartphone will be obsolete in 5 years time and completely replaced by new netbooks that provide an infinitely better experience than smartphones.

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Last week, I spoke with a couple of Ericsson people. They had a really cool slide of how market shares have moved for all vendors (Ericsson, NSN, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, ZTE, NEC, Cisco, Motorola, Nortel). The X and Y axis represented mobile and fixed sales. Each company was represented by three blobs, representing sales in 2006, 2007 and 2008. By their size and direction, one could tell who is

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I wonder if Alcatel-Lucent has gotten the order yet ...

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During our FTTH NL 2009 conference, I spoke with a journalist from the NRC newspaper, a 'quality' newspaper in the Netherlands. During my own presentation I claimed that dinosaurs take a long time to die, but in the end they actually do. Think PSTN, CATV, broadcast TV, newspapers. Of course, the man smirked at me 'so my newspaper is going to die'?Ironically, the very same NRC edition that

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The fiber community can be happy. From Nobel Foundation's press release, on this year's Nobel Prize in Physics:This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for two scientific achievements that have helped to shape the foundations of today’s networked societies. They have created many practical innovations for everyday life and provided new tools for scientific exploration. In 1966, Charles K.

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We had our first FTTH NL conference last Thursday, and I am happy to say that it was a big success. We will likely put on a second edition next September. You can still find the program here (and for those of you who attended, you can download the presentations).There was a clear distinction between those who looked at FTTH indepth by the nature of their business (Reggefiber, Emtelle, FTTH

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Short follow-up on this post (DSM increase's xDSL's reach). DSM L3 is trialed by ECI Telecom at 3 European telcos to extend the reach and performance of VDSL. This could be a way to deploy VDSL2 from the Central Office, where existing ADSL2+ DSLAMs can simply be replaced, instead of from the cabinet. Effectively, with DSM you don't need to do FTTC to extend fiber from the CO to the cabinet.The

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Today I visited the Glasdag 2009 conference put together by Glasvezel.nu (the website devoted to community and other efforts towards FTTH in the Netherlands) and SBNA (the non-profit behind a number of such initiatives in the city of Amersfoort). The conference was aimed at volunteers interested in launching FTTH initiatives in their home towns. Speakers included Kees Rovers (the driving force

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In this podcast at Cnet, John 'copper' Cioffi talks a little bit about DSM (dynamic spectrum management), a software solution for noise cancellation on DSL lines, sold through Assia. It delivers a reach increase of 25-30%, enlarging customer reach by up to 50%, according to him. Apparently, he is betting the farm on copper, delivering up to 100 Mbps over a maximum of 1 km.At around the 17th

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The success of new applications has a lot to do with freedom and abundance:The mobile phone liberated us from having to sit at the desktop phone.VoD liberates us from having to watch linear broadcast TV.Social networking liberates us from having to be friends with family, neighbours, colleagues etc. only, because it allows us to explore the entire world.The digital camera made us much more

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Paul Budde has written a very eloquent piece on the FTTH/HFC debate. I have been talking to a number of cable execs myself recently, and my attempt at The Truth is something like this:The Medium. In general, the shortcomings of HFC networks include limited downstream (where Docsis and other technologies help out), even more limited upstream (where channel bonding options are more limited), the

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Akamai put out its 09Q1 State of the Internet report today.

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Instead of asking 'why should NGA networks be built', a different question is worth asking: What will people do with virtually unlimited bandwidth?Part of the answer comes a survey on the time spent online (done by The Media Audit, as quoted by BizReport, among a US audience)."On average, American adults are now spending just under 4 hours each day online; that is an 81% increase over 2006

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At the parent company, we are working hard to put our first conference together. It is devoted to FTTH in the Netherlands and will be held September 17 in Houten (NL), in Dutch. Our list of speakers has been finalised, and we are very proud to have such a varied (and large) band.We are selling the report (in English) and the conference as a bundle, but you can order them separately as well.

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For those of you who haven't seen it yet: RampRate's report on the cost of running YouTube. RampRate puts the numbers much lower than Credit Suisse does.

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The people at Atanar Technologies have been able to create a stunning streaming service of classical live concerts - not requiring a particularly fat pipe at all. It's called Medici.tv and has some wonderful (live) content. Check out this Berliner Philharmoniker concert under Simon Rattle: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, the 'Rakh 3' (with Yefim Bronfman) and a Sacre in the rain.(Have you seen the

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Singapore is moving ahead of schedule in rolling-out FTTH (NGNBN), under the iN2015 banner.In-building work starts in September. It is free for those who signed up and will take four hours. During the first month, 56k homes and 1k businesses will be wired. At the end of 2010, 60% coverage will be reached.Activation and commercial service is set to be launched sometime during H1 of 2010.It remains

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Coffee is a typical commodity, and many people don't mind drinking it just like that (left). Came along Nescafe and Douwe Egberts/Philips, to give the world Nespresso (right) and Senseo. These products are outrageously overpriced, but equally popular.Imagine what marketing like that could do to plain old voice service.Optimum Lightpath (the business arm of Cablevision) may be leading the way. It

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Our FTTH NL 2009 report is finally ready. It took a few months, but we've spoken to almost 20 C-level execs from around the Dutch landscape to get past, present and future into the 45-page document. You can access the table of contents here (registration).The report has an entirely Dutch focus, but it's written in English. Buyers will have access to our first event, scheduled for September 17 -

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From a recent Xfone press release:FTTP is a key profitability driver for our Company and we believe there are significant opportunities for our services in select communities. Our ability to provide a voice, video and data "triple play" offering attracts customers who, because they are subscribing to three services rather than one, generate higher monthly revenue per customer. For example,

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