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Thursday, July 25, 2002
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/1431671 Fiber: Coming Soon To A Home Near You Jim Wagner One of the biggest obstacles facing fiber optics technology -- an Internet medium that handles much more bandwidth than existing telephone-company based copper wires -- has been one of price. But 2002 has seen a influx of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) solutions from a bevy of equipment makers, bringing prices down and making the pricey technology manageable for not only incumbent telecom carriers, but municipalities, upscale development communities and small independent companies. According to Geoff Wilbur, an analyst with KMI Research, the number of vendors coming out with new FTTH products will signal a boom in the market not seen to date. And as more companies compete and drive down prices, he said, more network planners will be looking at using fiber instead of copper....
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