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JULY 2016
Fiber-to-the-home leaders and innovators for 2016
A BBC Staff Report
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Building a Fiber-Connected World" is
the tagline of Broad B and Communities
magazine, and each year the FTTH Top
100 list recognizes organizations that lead the
way in this arena. During the last year, the
"game of gigs" that began with Google Fiber's
Kansas City deployment continued apace, and
the editors had plenty of Top 100 candidates to
choose from.
As in previous years, the FTTH Top 100
list represents many niches in the complex
fiber-to-the-home ecosystem. Optical fiber and
fiber cables; passive equipment for connecting,
protecting and managing fiber; and active
equipment for sending and receiving signals
over fiber are the most basic components
of an FTTH network, along with software
for planning, setting up and managing
networks and for provisioning and billing
fiber services. e list contains many companies
that design, manufacture and distribute these
essential products.
To put all these pieces together requires
firms that finance, plan, design, engineer,
construct and install fiber optic networks
as well as equipment for digging, pushing,
pulling and attaching fiber. ese, too, are
represented on the list. e list also includes a
variety of organizations that advocate for better
broadband or create the conditions that make
FTTH more profitable.
Finally, there wouldn't be any fiber to the
home if not for the network owners – large
and small, private and public, incumbent and
competitive – that invest in networks, decide
what and where to build, operate networks and
deliver services.
Companies newly added or reinstated to
the list represent many parts of this ecosystem.
Bechtel and Ledcor are large construction firms
that have a renewed focus on fiber networks.
Deep Fiber Solutions offers a specialized
service that speeds the conversion of cable to
fiber networks – critically important as cable
providers build fiber closer to customers' homes
or all the way to the home. CHR Solutions
2016
ORGANIZATIONS ADDED OR REINSTATED
TO THE 2016 FTTH TOP 100 LIST
American Polywater Corp. www.polywater.com
Bechtel www.bechtel.com
Biarri Networks www.biarrinetworks.com
CHR Solutions www.chrsolutions.com
Deep Fiber Solutions www.deepfibersolutions.com
GigabitNow www.gigabitnow.com
Ledcor www.ledcor.com
Rocket Fiber www.rocketfiber.com