Market Studies

The Current Outlook for Fiber in European Business and Residential Applications

Published: Febuary 1997

$1,995 -- Print copy


Overview:

A new report from Electronics International, analyzes the fiber optic components market for business and residential applications. The report reviews activities in nineteen countries, various alliances, standards, regulations and contains market forecasts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Estimate of trials by country

  • Australia
    • Telstra Melbourne
  • Bahamas
  • Belgium
    • Brussels
    • Wallonia
  • Bermuda
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • China
  • Canada
    • St. John, New Brunswick
    • Quebec
    • Ottawa
    • Beacon Initiative
  • France
    • National Multimedia Trials and 4 DORA Trials
  • Germany
    • Berlin
    • Stuttgart
    • Koln/Bonn
    • Veba/Bertelsmann - Gelsenkirchen
  • Israel
  • Italy
    • Telecom Italia - Rome
    • Milan
  • Japan
    • NTT’s $550 billion FTTH masterplan
    • Kyoto
    • Tokyo
    • Yokohama
    • NTT - General
    • Uryasu City
    • Others - Itochu and Toshiba Titus Consortium Broad Coverage
    • Other Related National Multimedia Trials
    • Standards Issues
  • Korea
    • Dacom - Yoedo
    • Korea Telecom - Seoul
  • Singapore
  • Sweden
    • Telia - Jarlberg
  • Switzerland
    • Grenchen
  • UK
    • Background
    • BT
    • Colchester & Ipswich
    • Westminster
    • Olivetti/On-Line Media - Cambridge
    • Kingston Communications - Hull
    • Diamond Cable - East/Northeast England
  • US
    • Bell Atlantic - Dover Township, NJ
    • BellSouth - Chamblee (GA)
    • Daniel Island
    • Hunter’s Creek, Orlando, Florida
    • Miami
    • Atlanta
    • Cox Communications - Hampton Roads, Virigina
    • Oklahoma City
    • GTE - Cerritos
    • San Diego and Boston
    • Manassas, Virginia
    • Nynex/Liberty Cable/Time Warner Cable - Manhattan
    • Nynex/Sprint/Liberty Cable - Manhattan
    • Nynex - Manhattan
    • SouthWestern Bell (SBC Communications) - San Antonio (HQ)
    • Richardson, Texas
    • U S West/Tele-Communications Inc. - Denver
    • Time Warner - Orlando

Commercial Installations

  • Australia
    • Foxtel
    • Optus
  • Europe
    • Background
    • A. Explosion in European Digital Channels
    • B. SECA’s European Digital Interactive Access Control Standard?
    • C. NetHold’s Pre-Emptive Bid for European Digital Access Control Market
  • Belgium
    • Flanders
  • Germany
    • Deutsche Telekom/Eastern Germany/Opal
  • Hong Kong
  • India
    • Background
  • Italy
    • Olivetti/U S West
  • Netherlands
    • Amsterdam
  • Singapore
  • US
    • Ameritech - Background
    • Metropolitan Chicago and Detroit, Columbus and Cleveland and Indianapolis, Indiana
    • Bell Atlantic - Reston, Fairfax County, Northern Virginia
    • Dover Township (NJ)
    • GTE - Honolulu, St. Petersburg, Ventura County (CA), Thousand Oaks (CA)
    • Pacific Telesis
    • San Francisco Bay Area, LA, Orange County and San Diego
    • Pacific Telesis alliance with Nynex and Bell Atlantic
    • Southern New England Telephone (SNET)
    • USWest - Chicago & Detroit
    • Omaha

Applications

  • Consumer Applications
  • VOD
  • Near-VOD
  • News on Demand
  • Interactive Listings
  • Teleshopping
  • Videoconferencing
  • Direct Banking
  • Music on Demand
  • Interactive Games
  • Internet Access
  • Voice
  • Distance Learning
  • Summary
  • Structure of the Industry

Competitive Options to Fiber in the Loop

  • Competition
  • Upgraded Use of Copper STP
    • HDSL
    • ADSL
  • HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax
  • Satellite
  • Wireless in the Local Loop
  • Video Dial Tone/Switched Digital Video
  • Cable Modems
  • ISDN
  • Network Computers (NC)
  • Use of the Internet
  • Use of Alternative (i.e., Power Utility) Networks
  • Response of Videostores to the Threat of VOD
  • Summary
  • Interactive TV Suppliers
  • Typical Suppliers
  • Industry Pressures
  • Major Industry Suppliers
  • ACTV
  • Alcatel
  • Amati Communications Corp.
  • Analog Devices
  • Apple
  • AT&T
  • Broadband Technologies
  • DEC
  • DSC Communications
  • Fujitsu
  • GTE
  • General Instruments
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • MCI
  • Microsoft
  • N-Cube
  • NEC
  • Netscape Communications
  • Nortel
  • Oracle
  • Orckit Communications
  • PairGain
  • Philips
  • Scientific-Atlanta
  • Sequent
  • Siemens
  • Sybase
  • Westell International
  • Sony
  • Sun
  • General
  • Various Alliances
  • Fujitsu, HP & Philips Electronics
  • AT&T Network Systems, Siemens Stromberg-Carlson, Scientific-Atlanta & Sun
  • Microsystems
  • NEC & VideoLogic
  • Time Warner/AT&T/Silicon Graphics (failed)
  • Hitachi & Oracle
  • Wireless In The Local Loop Suppliers

Standards & Regulation

  • Standards
    • DAVIC
    • Compressed Video
    • ADSL
  • Regulation
    • Section 17 of the 1992 US Cable Act
    • Other Relevant US Regulation

Summary

  • ADSL
  • WLL (Wireless in the Local Loop)
  • HFC
  • FTTC
  • FTTO
  • The Internet

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