On Nov 17 2010 ISOC-NY hosted a panel of broadband infrastructure builders – Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber, Joe Calzone of the ION Upstate New York Rural Broadband Initiative, and Louis Houle of Connect Quebec. Strategies and impediments were discussed. The archived webcast can be seen below. Now ad-free and downloadable.
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Audio: Aug 11 Fiber Infra Panel at TMT10 Conference #fiber #TMT10
The Oppenheimer 2010 Annual Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference took place August 10-11, 2010 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. A webcast is available of audio of the Fiber Infra Panel (free login required).
The panel included Hunter Newby of Allied Fiber and an extended slideset of his recent ISOC-NY presentation is provided as an adjunct to the audio. Other panelists are Dan Caruso of Zayo, Bill LaPerch of Abovenet,
NiQ Lay of HKBN and Frank Mambuca of US Metrotel.
Video: Google Micro-trenching Race #fiber
A video of micro-trench race filmed on Google campus April 16, 2010. Congrats to the winners! Bring on the fiber Olympics!
Audio: ISOC-NY meeting with Hunter Newby of Allied Fiber
On Monday Jun 28 2010 a small group of ISOC-NY members met with Hunter Newby, founder of Allied Fiber, to discuss the company’s plans to encircle the entire USA with a dark fiber ring with carrier neutral access at any point . It was a very stimulating talk lasting over 2 hours.
Audio is available: mp3 | (ogg coming tomorrow) Audio currently under review, will return a.s.a.p.
Ofcom Report: Fiber capacity limitations in access networks
In Januray 2010 analysys mason delivered a report Fibre capacity limitations in access networks to UK Internet regulator Ofcom.
The report, full of technical detail, and with very useful appendices of acronyms and a glossary, concludes that, in the short to medium term, fiber could handle double the predicted traffic. What’s more economies of scale and the implementation of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology. As new services become available and providers are forced to upgrade point-to point (PTP) networks would be easier to upgrade than passive optical networks (PON), because in a PTP network there is no passive (or active) equipment in the field and users can be upgraded individually. PON networks (such as FIOS) are cheaper to build than PTP, however operational issues regarding upgrades could prove to be a significant bottleneck, which could, in the worst case, prevent them from being upgraded at all.
New Networks addendum to CITI Report on Broadband Deployment
FREE REPORT:
The History, Financial Commitments and Outcomes of Fiber Optic Broadband
Deployment in America: 1990-2004
The Wiring of Homes, Businesses, Schools, Libraries, Hospitals and
Government Agencies
READ THE REPORT: http://www.newnetworks.com/FCCCITIbroadband.pdf
The FCC tasked the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) to do “an
analysis of the public statements of companies as to their future plans to
deploy and upgrade broadband networks as well as an historical evaluation of
the relationship between previous such announcements and actual deployment”.
The FCC adds that the focus is on data analysis of “investment plans and
deployment figures of upgraded broadband infrastructure in this century.”
CITI’s historical evaluation only goes back to 2004. After talking to CITI
we decided to create a separate report to cover fiber optic promises for
the period of 1990-2004 because, in many states, the changes in state laws
are still on the books for deployments and there have been current rate
increases based on the previous fiber optic based-broadband deregulation.
It is clear that billions of dollars have already been collected in most
states for broadband upgrades of the Public Switched Telephone Networks, the
utilities. If it didn’t go into the ground in the form of fiber, where did
it all go?
Besides the raising of local rates now being diverted to other lines of
business, from FIOS and U-Verse to even wireless, there are the various
taxes and surcharges, including the state and federal Universal Service
funding or state based funds, such as the California Advanced Services Fund.
None of these funds have been examined as a group, much less in specifics.
If customers are still paying through local rates and tax perks to upgrade
the essential facilities, shouldn’t the FCC be investigating ALL funding
sources and then determining whether the issues, such as cross-subsidization
of the ‘interstate information products’ or giving USF funding to companies
who do not ‘need’ the money to be profitable, be examined before the FCC
determines it needs to raise the Universal Service fund or give other
financial incentives to pay for broadband?
The FCC claims it wants a data-driven policy. We supplied the data — It’s
now the FCC’s turn.
Report filed with the FCC: Docket Nos. 09-47, 09-51, 09-137
Contact: Bruce Kushnick, [email protected]