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JULY 2015
Leaders and innovators in the fber-to-the-home arena for 2015
A BBC Staf Report
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roadband Communities' annual
FTTH Top 100 list celebrates
organizations for their contributions to
"Building a Fiber-Connected World." Tis has
been a good year for building a fber-connected
world, and that's refected in the composition of
the 2015 list.
Among the trends the editorial staf took
into account are the following:
• Cable companies are joining the fber-to-the-
home parade. Comcast and Cox, leveraging
fber they had deployed to business customers
and others, announced large-scale residential
FTTH buildouts (along with future
DOCSIS 3.1 builds). As of press time, these
projects were in the early stages, but they are
ambitious enough to qualify both companies
as FTTH leaders. Pavlov Media, a private
cable operator, makes good use of its robust
fber backbone, content delivery network
and other advanced technologies to provide
gigabit experiences for residents of student
housing and other multifamily properties.
• Several technology companies, following
Google's lead, are branching out to build
fber-to-the-home networks. One such entity
with national ambitions is the domain-services
company Tucows, whose Ting subsidiary
entered the FTTH market with a splash.
• Delivering superior services requires more
than just fber in the access network.
Robust, reasonably priced backhaul is
becoming increasingly necessary. Allied
Fiber, which just completed the frst leg of
its planned nationwide long- and short-haul
dark fber network, and OneCommunity,
a nonproft that operates a regional fber
network in Northeast Ohio, are among the
organizations using innovative methods to
enable more economical Internet access.
As in previous years, the FTTH Top 100
list represents many niches in the complex
fber-to-the-home ecosystem. Optical fber and
fber cables; passive equipment for connecting,
protecting and managing fber; and active
equipment for sending and receiving signals
over fber are the most basic components of an
2015
ORGANIZATIONS ADDED OR REINSTATED
TO THE FTTH TOP 100 LIST IN 2015
3-GIS www.3-GIS.com
Allied Fiber www.alliedfber.com
Comcast Cable www.comcast.com
Cox Communications www.cox.com
Fiberdyne Labs www.fberdyne.com
Fujitsu Network Communications http://us.fujitsu.com/telecom
OneCommunity www.onecommunity.org
Pavlov Media www.pavlovmedia.com
Pulse Broadband www.pulsebroadband.net
Tucows/Ting www.ting.com/internet