Programme

• What does a best practice FTTH project deliver?
• The new emerging fibre delivery from the lessons learned
• New optic solutions for ultimate content delivery
• Challenges of the 10% goal
  
  

• Openreach and the UK supply chain
• Meeting the challenges of volume deployment - Active Line Access and the Mixed Economy strategy
• Generic Ethernet Access and the enabling architectures
• Key learning from NGA early deploymenth
  
  

This presentation is based on the numerous studies of the FTTH Council Europe and will first give an overview of the situation of FTTH in Europe and worldwide. Then it will discuss the three aspects of sustainable development: society, economy and environment.

The presentation will prove:

• FTTH and Environmental Sustainability: why FTTH- networks have a positive impact on the environment
• FTTH and Economic Sustainability: how FTTH can contribute to economic growth
• FTTH and Social Sustainability: why FTTH improves the quality of life
  

• Who is placed to invest and how do service providers access the fibre?
• The government subsidy and seed funding
• The impact of government policy on content
• Super fast networks to rural areas
  
  

We are at the start of a large project to deploy fibre into the access network in the UK. There are similar efforts worldwide at various stages of maturity. Even though technologies such as GPON are only just being deployed, we still are thinking about what comes next. There are standards emerging to increase the access fibre capacity by a factor of four with 10Gbit/s passive optical networks (PONs) and there are solutions that can provide up to 1Gbit/s per subscriber on a PON. This talk will take a look at these emerging solutions and considers the relative merits of each. Key challenges for the optical technology will be highlighted and potential pitfalls when planning future proof fibre infrastructure will be discussed.

This session is an opportunity for delegates asking questions from the floor pertaining to their organisational and individual needs to hear answers, solutions and experiences from this expert panel.

IET Photonics Network, BT, FTTH Council Europe, Fibrecity

• The strengths of a fibre optic network
• Launching 50Mb and trialling 200Mb – what we’ve learnt
• The ultimate capabilities of DOCSIS 3.0 – what next
  
  

Delegates will move into small focus groups to discuss a range of topics of their choice to brainstorm future challenges. Each delegate’s choice includes:

• Fibre and the business plan
• Delivering content and the new fibre
• Fibre optics and key technical issues
• Investment and rural areas
• Going above 100mbps

Technology Strategy Board, Ericsson, Virgin Media, Atkins Global, Fibrecity