GNG News Guy
11-27-2007, 04:48 PM
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It's occasionally suggested that cable should just break down and run fiber (http://thegng.org/shownews/77417) the last mile to customers homes. With that in mind, Motorola has been offering cable providers an easy upgrade path should they want to offer some FTTH. Motorola's "Cable PON" solution combines Passive Optical Network (PON) architecture and Hybrid-Fiber-Coaxial (HFC) architecture -- allowing cable to run fiber alongside coax for instances such as lighting a development with FTTH.
"Greenfield" or new housing developments are a small but lucrative business for both phone and cable operators, but homeowners want the faster speeds fiber provides, and aren't interested in waiting for DOCSIS 3.0. Motorola's solution for cable operators is about to enter field trials early next year, according to Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=139891&site=cdn):Motorola unveiled a CablePON initiative in May at The Cable Show but has since decided to apply that focus toward a young standard called RF Over Glass (RFOG), and a broader, fiber-fed system that will look and smell like GPON. . . While RFOG will give operators some standards for FTTP deployments, Motorola believes those standards will also give cable a migration path toward GPON.
It's occasionally suggested that cable should just break down and run fiber (http://thegng.org/shownews/77417) the last mile to customers homes. With that in mind, Motorola has been offering cable providers an easy upgrade path should they want to offer some FTTH. Motorola's "Cable PON" solution combines Passive Optical Network (PON) architecture and Hybrid-Fiber-Coaxial (HFC) architecture -- allowing cable to run fiber alongside coax for instances such as lighting a development with FTTH.
"Greenfield" or new housing developments are a small but lucrative business for both phone and cable operators, but homeowners want the faster speeds fiber provides, and aren't interested in waiting for DOCSIS 3.0. Motorola's solution for cable operators is about to enter field trials early next year, according to Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=139891&site=cdn):Motorola unveiled a CablePON initiative in May at The Cable Show but has since decided to apply that focus toward a young standard called RF Over Glass (RFOG), and a broader, fiber-fed system that will look and smell like GPON. . . While RFOG will give operators some standards for FTTP deployments, Motorola believes those standards will also give cable a migration path toward GPON.