
Infonetics Research released excerpts from "2011 Next Gen FTTH and PON Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey," which analyzes results from interviews with incumbent and competitive operators in North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Central and Latin America about plans, drivers, pricing and product requirements for next-generation FTTH technologies.
Survey Highlights
- Though vendors have high expectations for a third wave of FTTH deployments using next-generation technologies, FTTH trials and deployments will be slow to materialize.
- Increased bandwidth per subscriber is the top reason operators will ultimately deploy next-generation FTTH technologies, followed by the delivery of IPTV and broadcast video.
- The features carriers most often require in an ONT (customer-premises device) were VoIP, 802.11n, and HPNA, signaling a continued shift away from basic bridge devices to integrated residential gateways.
- Calix was the vendor most often cited by carriers as one of the "top three FTTH vendors."
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