The City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) is testing an FTTP solution from Motorola and Quantum Bridge for delivering voice, video and data to select residents in the city. The city hopes to eventually replace its legacy infrastructure with FTTP.
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Palo Alto Selects Quantum Bridge / Motorola for FTTH Test
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about FTTH. Here is what it replaced:
ADSL / ADSL2+ served from 1999. What ultimately replaced it?
ADSL / ADSL2+ split the copper-loop spectrum into hundreds of DMT subcarriers, assigning most bandwidth downstream; reach and rate fell off sharply with loop length. Its job passed to FTTH — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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December 16From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.