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ADTRAN continues to gain U.S. FTTH market traction with its Total Access GPON solution set, with NTELOS being the most recent customer endorsement for the company. But can ADTRAN maintain its momentum once the Broadband Stimulus well is dry?
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Ericsson’s messaging to the analyst community centered on mobile broadband, a market opportunity “blessed” by tremendous traffic, ARPU and subscriber growth. How strongly is Ericsson positioned to benefit from this potential growth engine?
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While FTTH continues to attract the most attention in the fixed access space, MSAPs remain an ideal solution for delivering both narrowband voice and broadband data, especially for operators that can support “fiber-speed” services over copper.
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AT&T launched its Domain Supplier program last September, slowly revealing vendors to support specific parts of its network. The most recent nod came in the IP/MPLS/Ethernet/ Evolved Packet Core domain. The winners were announced, but the losers…?
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Alcatel-Lucent announced two mass-market fiber access deployments with China Mobile and China Telecom, strengthening its presence in this important market. Moving forward, can Alcatel-Lucent leverage these wins into further market share gains?
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Alcatel-Lucent claims its Micro-Architecture solution for Mediaroom can go to “11” (million potential subscribers). Yet, just like in “Spinal Tap,” execution is critical to success. The Cinergy customer endorsement proves the solution has legs.
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ECI Telecom, after years of declining market share in the fixed access space, has finally added another Tier 1 operator to its customer list. Will ECI’s Openreach win (alongside 21CN MSAP supplier Huawei) enable the company to regain lost ground?
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Last December, Verizon conducted its first XG-PON trial, utilizing Huawei gear. For this second 10G/XG-PON trial, it was Motorola’s turn at bat. Does Motorola’s FiOS incumbency and this successful XG-PON trial guarantee its future with Verizon?
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ADTRAN and Occam are off to a solid start in 2010, with each winning notable customer deployments in North America, while Zhone continues to show its prowess in garnering EMEA operator wins. Will Q3 and Q4 bring more success for these vendors?
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While DSL port shipments/revenues declined in 2009 and momentum for FTTP technology has increased, DSL still serves almost two-thirds of global fixed access subscribers and it will remain a strong, viable solution for operators over the long-term.
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Hitachi, having generated only limited traction in the North American GPON/telco market, appears to be betting it all on the EPON/cable market with its Salira-sourced EPON gear. Is this a wise move, or simply Hitachi’s last, best chance?
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Iskratel, several months after the debut of its Lumia fixed access MSAN, has expanded its subscriber interface portfolio as planned. While a solid and expected step forward, Iskratel still needs to generate and publicize customer endorsements.
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In the past week, Motorola has served up more than half a dozen announcements highlighting new cable hardware, and more importantly, customer deployments. The customer wins are certainly good news, but what’s the bottom line on the product front?
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Huawei held its annual Global Analyst Conference towards the end of April in Shenzhen. While the company’s messaging continues to mature, it still managed to surprise with its take on the application market and new strategies in the enterprise.
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ZTE held its sixth annual Global Analyst Conference towards the end of April. While it remedied a lack of focus on solution messaging which dogged it last year, it still needs to back up product and solution claims with mature market proof points.
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Ericsson continues to pick up Nortel’s pieces, this time with the acquisition of Nortel’s majority stake in LG-Nortel, capturing a proven WDM-PON solution and, more importantly, an instant presence in the critically important South Korean market.
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Alcatel-Lucent has resurrected a 120-year-old analog telephone technology, phantom mode, and combined it with VDSL2 vectoring and bonding to support fiber-speed over DSL in a lab demo. But how soon will Phantom Mode DSL be commercially available?
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Eighteen months after its Pannaway merger, Enablence incorporates another access vendor into its portfolio, Israel-based Teledata. Will this spur Enablence to greater success, or is it just the latest consolidation in the fixed access market?
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Actelis has enhanced its EFM solution set with Dynamic Rate Boost (DRB) and Dynamic Spectral Shaping (DSS) to deliver double the rate/reach of previous-gen solutions. But will these Release 7 enhancements truly separate Actelis from the EFM crowd?
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In the U.S., the cable versus telco fixed broadband war has reached new heights, with Verizon’s full frontal FiOS assault going against the DOCSIS 3.0 deployments by leading cable operators. At this point, is there a clear winner?
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ADTRAN unveiled the NetVanta 8044M Ethernet access solution for cell sites, designed to address both the pre-fiber backhaul opportunity and the 4G/LTE future. Will the 8044M enable ADTRAN to expand its mobile backhaul market presence?
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Zhone now offers an EFM card for its flagship MXK platform, designed to enable operators to migrate from copper to fiber to address the 2G/3G to 4G/LTE transition. Can Zhone leverage its early MXK sales success into mobile backhaul traction?
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Ericsson first discussed its new EFN432 GigE P2P solution at the FTTH Council Europe last month, but it waited three more weeks to launch the platform formally. While lacking the element of surprise, this debut still merits rival vendor attention.
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The 2010 FTTH Council Europe was notable for important P2P Ethernet product debuts from Ericsson, Iskratel, and KEYMILE; the absence of Huawei as a sponsor/exhibitor; and, conversely, the very high visibility of fixed access leader Alcatel-Lucent.
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