Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra  Home         Topics: Main | DSL | Cable | FTTH  | GPON | VDSL2 | DOCSIS 3.0 | IPTV | Set-top Boxes  | Encoders  | Content   | Regulatory Issues  |  Links & Resources | Archive   | Europe  |    Utah's UTOPIA Project Plans Widescale FTTH Deployment Salt Lake City and 17 other cities across the state of Utah are planning to build a publicly-owned, fiber telecommunications network that would reach nearly 250,000 homes and 35,000 business, representing a population of about 724,000. The Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) plans to build the network and then act as a municipally-owned wholesale carrier. The project plans to issue 15 to 20 year bonds that would be paid for by leasing capacity on the network to various service providers and ISPs. It does not expected to raise the tax base for the communities served. UTOPIA plans to use an "Open Service Provider Network" model developed by Dynamic City, which serves as consultant for the project. The first phase of the rollout will connect some 15,000 homes beginning in early 2004. UTOPIA's Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) will use an active architecture rather than a PON design. Riverstone Networks has been selected to provide core electronics and access distribution systems. Allied Telesyn's RG223 Residential Gateway has been chosen as the customer premises solution for the network. Allied Telesyn's product distributes traditional voice and multiple IP-based services throughout a home, including broadband Internet access, VoIP, broadcast television, and video on demand. The RG223 features two analog phone ports, three 10/100 Ethernet LAN ports, and supports IGMP for secure and efficient multicast video. The gateway, which would be placed inside the home, directly terminates the fiber connection. A category 5 Ethernet cable is used to connect to an IP set-up box. http://www.utopianet.org/ http://www.dynamiccity.com http://www.alliedtelesyn.com 06-Oct-03     Learn How to Get Your Video on this Site Recent Last Mile News Singapore's Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network Launches 8/31/2010 SingTel Launches Services over NGNBN Fibre 8/31/2010 BT Confirms Selection of Huawei for Next Gen Access 8/26/2010 Occam Supplies Multiservice Access in Indiana 8/25/2010 NTELOS Selects ADTRAN for FTTH 8/24/2010 Australia's NBN Hangs in the Balance 8/23/2010 Lantiq Samples 65nm VDSL2 CO Chipset with Line Bonding 8/23/2010 WildBlue Wins $19M Grant for Rural Satellite Broadband 8/19/2010 North Carolina's Golden LEAF Gains $140 Million in Funding 8/18/2010 PacketFront Employs Mindspeed Processor for Gigabit-to-the Home CPE 8/18/2010 Korea's CJ HelloVision Picks Arris for DOCSIS 3.0 8/17/2010 PMC-Sierra Collaborates with Incognito Software on FTTx for MSOs 8/16/2010 Verizon Tests Gigabit Ethernet Service on FiOS 8/16/2010 Orange's Internet-TV-Phone + Mobile offer in France 8/12/2010 Orckit-Corrigent Gains TSEC for GPON in India 8/9/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton