MuniWireless

A lot has been made recently of 1G fiber optic connections being wired up into people’s homes.  Here in Cleveland the Case Connection Zone project will be conducting research on what exactly would someone DO with all this bandwidth?   1G connections will be placed into 104 homes and apartments on Hessler St. – and the class I’m teaching at CWRU will help provide the software to those residents.

In San Francisco the city is installing fiber into some public housing blocks, as…

City of Saint Paul, Minnesota and Ramsey County have issued an RFP and are seeking to enter into a public-private patnership with a proposer who represents one or more qualified network service providers or other qualified respondents to support efforts to obtain funding from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), or other funding sources, for the construction of a next-generation fiber optic, broadband infrastructure and to provide a complete implementation of a Community Fiber Network (CFN) and associated Community…

At the Broadband World Forum Europe held in Paris last week, several announcements revealed that Eastern European countries have been driving broadband growth in fiber to the home (FTTH) and fiber to the building (FTTB) deployments. The FTTH Council Europe presented the results of a survey conducted by iDate on the progress of FTTH/FTTB in Europe.

Roland Montagne, Analyst at iDate explained:

“The build up of fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-building (FTTH/FTTB) infrastructures in Europe has been growing with 120 new projects added in…

The deployment of fiber to the home (FTTH) networks in Spain is quite disappointing due to the lack of investment in next generation networks (NGNs) by most network operators. The number of FTTH subscribers is limited because FTTH is just offered only by small operators or under field trial basis from national incumbents. The only widespread access technologies at present in Spain are xDSL technologies and CATV, all of them typically under 10Mbps downstream, and highly asymmetric (typically less than 500kbps…

Last week, Jean-Ludovic Silicani, the new president of ARCEP, held a press conference and announced several propositions to stimulate commercial investment in FTTH deployment in France. These propositions were put together after year of tense negotiations between ARCEP, the operators and local collectives. They will be issued for public consultation in July and are expected to be adopted in the fall. If Sarkozy’s government is to meet its goal of at least 4 million households that are fiber-enabled by 2012,…

European countries are now actively discussing the impact of the new generation of broadband networks to be put in place for the next decade. Last week, the European Commission issued a set of revised proposals for the regulation of Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband networks, in the form of a draft Commission Recommendation. This draft is put on public consultation for proposals and commentaries. The public consultation ends on 24 July 2009.

Telecom Commissioner Viviane Reding said: “High speed fiber networks…