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[FIS Fiber Optics]

Hey I'd Really appreciate any input on this subject. Feel Free not to fill it out. But It would help me understand where all this fiber to the home action is really happening, and who the biggest players are.

[strange052]

Hey FIS, welcome to the site,

I have been involved a little with FTTH , but where I am, we are still rolling FTTN (neighborhood), but all new builds are fiber ready, just waiting for the fiber to be placed to the ped. We have a combo copper/fiber drop placed from the ped to the house in those areas.

Inside scoop is that it will be inplace by mid 08. Id believe that in the larger cities but not in my town. At least not yet.


I should mention I work for one of the big players in Canada.

[Wood Pecker]

Hey Bro,
Welcome to the site
I worked on a fiber to the home project in Austin for a company called Grande comm.
Now I work for TWC in Austin
The Fiber Project was cool as hell and I learned some pretty cool sh!t
I was in Construction so I was part of the team that speced it out.


WP

[madd splicer]

I've done a little work for a rural ILEC that is rolling out FTTH in new developments. A lot of these developments are high dollar areas and at the moment the ILEC is only doing double-play, no video has been implemented yet. All of the FTTH projects for this company are in Arizona.

[mysteryguest]

I was involved with the Verizon FiOS project from day one with Verizon up to mid 2007. I spliced and tested countless jobs along the west coast of Florida. They are placing cable in new and old neighborhoods. No matter what part of town or demographic. Their plant sends a single fiber to the side of everyone's house.

Of course, I'm sure you guys already know the services they offer.

It's a slick setup. They have covered some serious ground in that time too. Last I heard, the customer take rate exceeded there estimates in that area.

Edited by mysteryguest, 28 October 2007 - 01:12 PM.

[fart hammer]

Hey Bro,
Welcome to the site
I worked on a fiber to the home project in Austin for a company called Grande comm.


WP

Grande was really more of a "fiber to the curb" project from what I know. I didn't think that they took it all the way to the house. They still had coax........ didn't they?

[Wood Pecker]

Tim,
90% of their plant is fiber to the curb and then the last year I was there we did fiber to the home.
They started it once we started getting into the hyde park area do to the problem of setting our onu peds all over
Hyde park wasnt going for onus every 25 homes

WP

[fart hammer]

alright, i was just curious, as far as i knew time warner and verizon were the only two in texas working on fiber to the home. and i thought that was just in dallas. i didn't know grande dabbled in it as well

[fiberchic]

alright, i was just curious, as far as i knew time warner and verizon were the only two in texas working on fiber to the home. and i thought that was just in dallas. i didn't know grande dabbled in it as well

AT&T has also got some FTTP in Richardson...They did not do the whole city having problems with the ONT's and going to have to go back and replace the ones already installed. There is also something going on in Houston but not sure for who. I have personally worked onmn some other FTTP projects in Florida, Kansas, Arkansas, and Kentucky all of them were for small co-op telcos

[Tmac]

Hey I'd Really appreciate any input on this subject. Feel Free not to fill it out. But It would help me understand where all this fiber to the home action is really happening, and who the biggest players are.

Biggest buyer ? How about Verizon, but I think they are buying directly from companies like Corning.

[nevrenufhp]

There was no choice for AT&T in the poll. I thought they were a pretty big company.

[Wood Pecker]

Not sure why AT&T isnt there? They are certainly a large company?

WP

[olo131]

I know you can't list all but an other button might give you a better result. I work for an MSO not on the list we are not one of the "BIG ONES" and we have lots of FTTH projects. But hey we are on the list... #17

Forgot a link to my source (cablewithaview has taught me something)

http://www.ncta.com/Stats/TopMSOs.aspx
Rank MSO Basic Video Subscribers
01 Comcast Corporation 24,182,000
02 Time Warner Cable, Inc. 13,069,000
03 Cox Communications, Inc. 5,328,304
04 Charter Communications, Inc. 5,045,700
05 Cablevision Systems Corporation 3,108,000
06 Bright House Networks LLC 2,307,778
07 Mediacom Communications Corporation 1,318,000
08 Suddenlink Communications1 1,268,674
09 Insight Communications Company, Inc. 707,600
10 CableOne, Inc.1 669,469
11 RCN Corp. 366,000
12 WideOpenWest Networks, LLC 363,839
13 Bresnan Communications1 309,371
14 Service Electric Cable TV Incorporated1 290,699
15 Atlantic Broadband Group, LLC 285,540
16 Armstrong Cable Services 247,315
17 Knology Holdings 232,777
18 Midcontinent Communications 206,214
19 MetroCast Cablevision 188,881
20 Blue Ridge Communications1 177,423
21 Broadstripe1 158,375
22 Buckeye CableSystem1 147,781
23 General Communications 147,701
24 WaveDivision Holdings, LLC 141,207
25 MidOcean Partners1 139,808


As of December 2008


olo131

Edited by olo131, 08 September 2009 - 06:23 PM.

[System Tech Senior]

WOW.. My companies 5 mil ain't nothing to Comcast's 24 mil...

[olo131]

How in the Hell dose Direct and Dish get in this list...... looks like every cable co slipped and gave it up to the dish boys..



Top 25 Multichannel Video Programming Distributors 1 - 25 a

http://www.ncta.com/Stats/TopMSOs.aspx

Rank MSO BasicVideoSubscribers
1 Comcast Corporation 23,759,000
2 DirecTV 18,441,000
3 Dish Network Corporation 13,851,000
4 Time Warner Cable, Inc. 12,964,000
5 Cox Communications, Inc.1 5,247,000
6 Charter Communications, Inc. 4,879,000
7 Cablevision Systems Corporation 3,066,000
8 Verizon Communications, Inc. 2,708,000
9 Bright House Networks LLC 2,283,000
10 AT&T, Inc. 1,817,000
11 Mediacom Communications Corporation 1,263,000
12 Suddenlink Communications1 1,255,000
13 Insight Communications Company, Inc. 718,000
14 CableOne, Inc.1 678,000
15 RCN Corp. 367,000
16 WideOpenWest Networks, LLC 363,000
17 Bresnan Communications1 308,000
18 Service Electric Cable TV Incorporated1 290,000
19 Atlantic Broadband Group, LLC 279,000
20 Armstrong Cable Services 246,000
21 Knology Holdings 222,000
22 Midcontinent Communications 215,000
23 MetroCast Cablevision 196,000
24 Blue Ridge Communications1 177,000
25 Broadstripe1 158,000


a As of Sept. 2009

[System Tech Senior]

a lot of that could be rural areas where there is no cable.

[olo131]

It is odd that they weren't on the last years list and somehow they now have about 32,000 subs between the two of them???

What brought that on?

olo131

[System Tech Senior]

Bad service from Cable providers? Maybe the NFL package..

[Ladderman]

My town is in the running to be a test site for Google's fiber to the home experiment, with a few other cities. So much hype right now, I can't even watch the news, or listen to talk radio anymore, without it pushed in my face and ears.

[System Tech Senior]

You gonna try it out and see how it is? Google has some pretty deep pockets. I'm sure getting it off the ground will be a breeze for them.