IGI Announces New Advanced Access Architecture Report: "Advanced Access Architectures 2008 - AT&T, Verizon and Qwest Plans & Forecasts"


Dr. Paul Polishuk, president of Information Gatekeepers, announced the availability of a completely new FTTP/FTTN/FTTC report on the RBOCs' advanced access plans. In discussing this release with a group of clients in Boston, Dr. Polishuk explained, "We have previously issued six reports on this subject, since it initially became a subject five years ago. I would like to note that while we have input from all major Telcos for this report, we do more than report what they say. We report what we think they will actually do! Our forecasts, in the past, have been extremely accurate, and at very least, offer an opinion as to what may actually transpire. In those reports, we have correctly forecast many of the major events in the access world, including the addition of video services, the move to GPONS, the beginning of an AAA program for Qwest, etc. In spite of all the work we have done, this is by far the most comprehensive report on the subject ever offered. It is full of new material and fresh forecasts in great detail. This is going to become the "must have" report on Advanced Architectures for everyone in the field.

Our new report, "Advanced Access Architectures 2008," is much more than any of our past efforts. This new report now treats FTTP as an established technology, and looks in depth at the problems in the new technologies - traffic, costs, evolving technology, etc. The report now includes detailed discussions of network and local loop traffic requirements and how the various technologies can meet those requirements. Also new in this report is a detailed analysis of the costs associated with the three leading architectures - FTTP, FTTN, and FTTC - and an introduction to a hybrid FTTN/FTTC and the associated costs.

As with the other reports, it also includes detailed architectural, cost, deployment of fiber and equipment forecasts - all updated based on the trends through mid-2008. Of course, this report includes full descriptions of FTTP, other architectures (FTTx), PONs, IPTV and extensive vendors' listings and discussions, as our other reports have, but the traffic analysis, cost analysis, and forecast sections are very unique!"

Dr. Polishuk continued, "This report was prepared by Clif Holliday, the author of the Lightwave Series of reports, and one of the pioneers in developing today's FTTx architectures - leading GTE's efforts in that arena for many years in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As we have some of the greatest depth of knowledge, and experience in the field, our reports are clearly some of the most authoritative in the industry."

The author elaborated, "In the earlier reports, the primary AAA event was that the three RBOCs had actually agreed on a direction, and issued an RFP. In later reports, the previous story lines remained important, but the main story was that the RBOCs were going into residential video delivery in a big way. After so much testing, learning, false starts and failures, the RBOCs really committed to a massive effort to compete on a network basis in residential video delivery. For those who have been in the industry for a time, memories go back to 1985-7 and Cerritos, CA and Orlando, and other early video trials. One wondered if enough has been learned to be successful in this very difficult business. This latest AAA Report now considers the various architecture as 'business as usual' and concentrates on the problems that are developing with it."

Note that AT&T's forecast, based on a slight smoothing of their stated plans, is still very concentrated in a few years, while the other plans tend to be much more evenly spread across the plan horizon.

This report includes:

o the details of the RBOC PON and how and why that is going to change;
o details of the various RBOC access architectures, and how video fits into these architectures;
o details of the various options for deploying video - FTTx, broadcast video and IPTV;
o the current deployment plans and our forecasts for what will actually happen;
o an analysis and forecast of the required bandwidth in the local loop;
o an analysis of the traffic handling capabilities of various architectures;
o a detailed comparative cost analysis;
o an analysis of the economic impact (capital and on the overall network) of the announced plans as well as of our forecast;
o and vendors of the equipment and software.

Advanced Access Architectures 2008 is available from the Information Gatekeepers Inc. website. IGI can provide graphics from the report for qualified publishers.

For more information, interviews with Dr. Paul Polishuk or Clifford Holliday, please contact:
Dr. Paul Polishuk
Information Gatekeepers Inc.
320 Washington Street, Suite 302
Boston, MA 02135
617-782-5033 Fax 617-782-5735
ppolishuk@igigroup.com

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