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BBWF: All Broadband Led to Berlin![]() Last year's Broadband World Forum conversations included a lot of talk, especially from vendors, about problems with kit inside the home. This year, exchanges between vendors and operators focused on the need for frictionless, seamless and converged networks built with open source and standards-based solutions. In 2018, many operators and vendors brought with them a shared sense of purpose of their need to end the digital divide and bring ubiquitous high-speed Internet for all to enable some of the promises of a gigabit society. This year, the value operators can bring by resolving smart-home connectivity issues was seen as a given, with WiFi guys out in force on the show floor demonstrating a range of customer premise equipment (CPE), mesh networks and home gateways capable of delivering reliable high speed broadband around every corner of the home. "It is not just about bringing fiber to the home, but the connectivity within the home," Nokia President Federico Guillen said at the time.
Old equipment, new harm Often embattled NBN Australia, for example, was quick to lay some of its perceived poor service of its network at the feet of retail service providers and poor in-home legacy equipment.
As NBN Chief Technology Officer Ray Owen told Broadband World News: "We have spent a lot of time over the last year working with our retailers to improve the customer experience from the initial end-user connection to the network. We are doing a lot of work in terms of customer education and making sure end-users check what they are doing online to make sure they choose the right plan, then they need to select the right retail provider for their needs and finally they need to connect to the network as best they can with a good quality modem that is placed in the optimal position." In other places, using legacy technology in new and innovative way fulfills another trend seen around Broadband World Forum this year: providing broadband for the masses, not the few. Many keynoters echoed this concept. Among them -- Chorus CEO Kate McKenzie -- who described how steady commitment from successive governments, combined with a highly competitive market helped drive the uptake of high-speed broadband in New Zealand. To keep that service affordable to many of the country's residents, 100 Mbit/s plan is less than 2% of household income, she said. Gagnaveita Reykjavikur (Reykjavik Fiber Network) uses a similar tactic, pricing its gigabit service at the same price point as its 100Mbit/s offering.
Wholesalers in the spotlight Chorus, for example, gives customers a realistic comparison of available services.
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Juan Pedro Fernandez-Palacios, head of Transport Technology and Planning at Telefónica GCTIO, discusses the benefits of disaggregation in a broadband-hungry world.
Disaggregration and standardization help optical network vendors advance their technologies while keeping costs in check – a big trend and topic of discussion during NGON & DCI World at the Acropolis in Nice.
Over the last six years, video demand has surged but NBN's investment in fiber, FTTC and DOCSIS 3.1 allowed the national Australian wholesaler to keep up with today's – and future – needs, CTO Ray Owen told a Broadband World Forum audience.
During Broadband World Forum, Jorge Bonifacio, director of Network and Services Strategy at the Portuguese operator, shared Altice Fiber's 11-year-old FTTH policy, its impact and benefits.
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. London Today’s access network architecture is under mounting pressure due to a continued surge in the number of connected devices, a proliferation of bandwidth-intensive customer applications and dramatic shifts in usage patterns related to the pandemic, such as work-from-home and e-learning. Learn why now is the right time for cable operators to build greenfield networks or expand their existing networks with 10G PON, arming customers with high-speed symmetrical broadband. Gain a clear understanding of the drivers impacting the access network and the various approaches being considered to deliver higher speed services. Plus, find out the best practices that operators are employing as they leverage the latest in passive optical technology to future-proof their networks. Topics to be covered include:
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