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Global Broadband - Fibre Based Access Backgrounder

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Optical fibre development first started in the 1970s, with the first large-scale commercial use occurring in the late 1980s. By the 1990s fibre networks were beginning to be taken seriously and in the early 2000s a few daring telcos in the United States and Asia started Fibre-to-the Node (FttN) projects, but in most situations the last few metres were stilled planned to be twisted-copper pair.
The dramatic reduction in the cost of fibre deployment in recent years made the technology cost-effective compared to xDSL and cable alternatives, both of which provide only a fraction of the speed of FttH networks. The cost balance is beginning to favour fibre and improved technologies and deployment methods; as well as regulatory measures which encourage or enforce shared access has allowed fibre to become a viable broadband infrastructure.
BuddeComm has been following and advising upon broadband development for many years. The following report is a backgrounder on some of the issues surrounding fibre deployment and includes some our key analyses written on this topic. It explores such as issues as regulating fibre; drivers or fibre access and broad FttH business models.
Key developments:The challenge for carriers is managing this totally new infrastructure; Countries with effective and strong regulatory policies are forging ahead with a lively fibre footprint. When regulators get the issue between their teeth and act; the fibre sector moves ahead because operators are no longer put off by regulatory uncertainty.
Contents:

1. Synopsis
2. Backgrounder - Fibre-based access
2.1 Early trials – brief overview
2.2 Massive changes in network management required
2.3 Low hanging FttH fruit
2.4 Consumer benefits to low-cost fibre
2.5 Enterprises not driving FttH
3. Fibre-to-the-X: the economics of last-mile fibre
3.1 Introducing fibre ‘x’
3.2 Getting fibre closer to the home
3.3 Incremental versus sunk costs
3.4 Utilization is key
3.5 Topology versus technology
3.6 Fibre options
3.7 Unbundling
3.8 Upgrading the architecture
3.9 Path dependencies
3.10 Example of FttH deployment costs
4. Regulating fibre: a global issue
4.1 Regulating copper networks – a lesson
4.2 Networks under strain
4.3 The stronger case for fibre
5. FttH drivers
5.1 National economy drivers
5.2 Social drivers
5.3 Entertainment drivers
5.4 Business drivers
5.5 Network capacity drivers
5.6 No E-Government without fibre
5.7 ‘Go with the flow’ strategies
6. FttH business models
6.1 Vertically Integrated model
6.2 Open network model
6.3 Structural separation a must for FttH
7. Conclusion: Cable TV networks – like the fast steam trains?
8. Related reports
Table 1 – AT&T’s backbone capacity statistics – 2009
Exhibit 1 – Broadband – infrastructure blueprint
Exhibit 2 – Examples of estimated costs of fibre deployment in the USA - 2010
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