Lit San Leandro - Home. OFS: Press Room. Norcross, Georgia, May 9, 2011 - OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network products, and the City of Cortez, Colorado, today announced that phase one of the City’s Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network went live this month serving businesses in the City increasing the bandwidth for commerce, communications and data.
“The multiphase FTTH plan for the City of Cortez is an open access/ open service model of deploying high capacity fiber to the community,” said Rick Smith, City General Services Director. “The open access model means the Cortez will not be providing the services to end-users, but instead partnering with area service providers who will use the system to bring high capacity services to the businesses and enterprises that request the service.”
Southwest Colorado Council of Governments secured the initial funding for this project which came from a state grant of one million dollars from oil, gas and coal leasing rights. Google is Actually Late to Kansas 1 Gb/s FTTP Party. Google has attracted a lot of attention with its plan to build a network capable of delivering 1 Gb/s service to homes and businesses in Kansas City, Kansas.
But the company won’t be the first in Kansas to deploy a broadband network capable of delivering 1 Gb/s service. At least two rural telcos in the state—Rural Telephone Company and Twin Valley Telephone —already have achieved that goal. Rural Telephone Company Rural Telephone Company has deployed fiber-to-the-premises equipment based on active Ethernet that is capable of supporting 1 Gb/s service to 70% of the subscribers in its ILEC territory, said Rhonda Goddard, chief operating officer for the company, in an interview with Telecompetitor.
In addition, RuralTel won a stimulus award to deploy the same technology throughout 1700 square miles of western Kansas—an area about the size of Connecticut—and the company already has deployed service to two communities that were part of the award. Twin Valley Telephone Moving forward. Canada: “FTTH is the only real defence for telcos against cable” Half of Canadian homes will get fiber all the way home, Glen Campbell of Merrill expects, after Bell Aliant announced they would spend $350M (Canadian) to reach one-third of their territory in the next two years and continue building after that on the 90% of their plant that is not buried.
Campbell expects Bell Canada itself (which controls Aliant) and Telus to follow suit, at least in the 50% of their territory that is aerial. $650/home (Canadian) is Bell's projected cost, based on their already substantial fiber deployment. Jeff Fan of Scotia Capital researched the projected Bell buildout and discovered most homes were spread out and in very small clusters. That would require far more "node" boxes than the AT&T build and not be dramatically less expensive than full fiber over time.Analysts like the move and the related dividend cut. "S&P confirmed its ‘BBB’ rating for long-term corporate credit and upgraded its outlook from negative to stable," the company reports.