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NewsGlobe: Interviews
Motorola paves FTTH path for cable MSOs
Tailors solutions that leverage and extend existing RF infrastructure
by Sean Buckley
Facing pressure from housing and community developers that want to
provide fiber-based services as amenity to their residents, cable
operators are now examining how they can go FTTH while leveraging
their existing RF investments.
In the following Audiocast,
Executive Editor Sean Buckley talks with Paul Braun,
Senior Product Manager, Access Networks Solutions for Motorola about
how it is paving a path for MSOs to get to FTTH on their own terms.
Braun answers the following questions in this Audiocast:
• A recent study commissioned by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council and the
TIA found there’s now more than two million homes connected to fiber. What do
you contribute that growth to and what’s your take on the overall state
of the FTTH market?
• Despite their dedication to DOCSIS and RF, it’s clear that the cable
industry is interested in FTTH, with smaller operators making the initial
moves. Do you think the oncoming RFoG standard and Hybrid RF PON
products we’ll see more movement by the cable MSO industry to move to
FTTH?
• Part of the cable FTTH drive includes an emerging standard by the SCTE
called RFoG (RF over Glass). How is that standard effort progressing thus
far?
• Let’s switch over to Motorola. Already well entrenched with large telcos,
Motorola is taking its knowledge of the cable industry and the telecom
FTTH drive to develop a set of products designed to give cable
operators a path to FTTH. Tell us about the components of Motorola’s
cable FTTH offerings.
• While standard PON and Active Ethernet are optimized to meet the
needs of the telecom network, in a cable network they would require a
forklift upgrade. What are the main challenges that a cable operator
overall faces in going to fiber to the home and how can they be
addressed?
Click here to listen to the Audiocast
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