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Broadband Bytes for 2012-05-19

Published on May 19, 2012 By Don

NVIDIA pushing streaming gaming with virtualized GPUs. http://t.co/0A4nQ8cM #
Yes, most of you hate your cable. http://t.co/APriWErR #
Comcast changing up their caps. http://t.co/pdiDZfd1 #
Lack of adequate fiber is slowing down LTE deployments. ht…

TIM Brasil to offer its FTTX service under the ‘Live’ brand

Published on May 18, 2012 By Don

TIM Brasil, Telecom Italia’s Brazil telecom subsidiary, will market its Fiber to the Curb/Fiber to the Building (FTTC/FTTB) service under its new “Live” brand name.
Aiming to acquire 1 million subscribers by 2017, the service provider plans to launch i…

Zayo bolsters its wireless backhaul capabilities in Phoenix

Published on May 17, 2012 By Don

Zayo is capitalizing on the growth of wireless backhaul services by adding 123 new towers and 165 route miles to its network in Phoenix.
The build out, which is a 60 percent increase over its existing network, will establish network service presence in…

3M offers Slim Lock Closure for fiber to the antenna

Published on May 16, 2012 By Don

3M says its new Slim Lock Closure for wireless applications weatherproofs coaxial jumper cable connections on the cell tower where 7/16 DIN connectors are used. The compact closure protects connections at the antenna and remote radio unit (RRU) and com…

Telefonica to bring FTTP to Madrid this year

Published on May 16, 2012 By Don

Telefónica and Madrid City Council have announced that the Spanish communications service provider plans to bring 100-Mbps broadband services to 1.3 million households and companies via fiber to the premises (FTTP) before the end of the year.

For license: Process for 1.02 index of refraction fiber

Published on May 2, 2012 By Don

Jim Bell, a gentleman with no background in fiber optics – or any kind of optics, for that matter – asserts he has unlocked the secret of why silica’s index of refraction is greater than 1. Bell says this discovery means he has a way to improve t…

Arrayed Fiberoptics offers non-contact fiber-optic connectors

Published on May 1, 2012 By Don

Arrayed Fiberoptics Corp. (AFC) has launched a new type of fiber-optic connectors.The “non-contact” (NC) fiber connector is designed to eliminates the physical contact between fiber end faces.

USTelecom: Service providers invested $66B in broadband in 2011

Published on April 23, 2012 By Don

U.S.-based wireline service providers are making good on their broadband promise, investing almost $66 billion in new network infrastructure last year, reports USTelecom in a new research brief.

Source: USTelecom

Broadband providers, a…

Big spending on tap for FTTx in developed economies, says Analysys Mason

Published on April 23, 2012 By Don

Fixed-line operators in developed economies worldwide will spend $53.5 billion on FTTx infrastructure between 2012 and 2017, according to new report from Analysys Mason. About 82% of that money will go to fiber to the home (FTTH) deployments – a stra…

Bend-insensitive multimode fiber from Prysmian targets data centers

Published on April 19, 2012 By Don

Prysmian Group has unveiled a new line of bend-insensitive multimode fiber-optic cable under the Draka brand. The UC-FUTURE multimode cables are designed to exceed modern data center space and bandwidth growth requirements while providing the handling …