Portugal Telecom, Corning to develop GPON products

bealtine

Portugal Telecom, Corning to develop GPON products Saturday 9 May 2009

Portugal Telecom and Corning have announced an agreement to work together to develop, test and implement Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology products for fibre-optic networks in Portugal. Portugal Telecom recently signed an agreement with the Portuguese government and other telecommunications providers to develop a fibre-optic network in the country. The goal is to enable access to services such as true high-speed internet, voice and HDTV based on a new network for up to 1.5 million Portuguese. Corning will utilise its new ClearCurve product suite optimised for the European market. The suite is enabled by ClearCurve fibre, which is said to be hundreds of times more bendable than standard single-mode fibre. Featuring Corning's nanoStructures technology, ClearCurve optical fibre can be bent around tight corners with virtually no signal loss while maintaining backward compatibility with the installed base of optical fibre. This fibre enables the construction of rugged drop cables for multi-dwelling units which can be pulled through wall studs, stapled to wood and otherwise handled like copper communications cables.

Sponge Bob

More bendable , mmmm , very important for fibre which has not been very robust in the past .

Is this a national fibre project underpinned by a far sighted government ???

probably

crawler

Bendy around a while now - I think Verizon FIOS uses this also in places....avoids micro-bending which is baaaaaad.

It sounds more live a press release for Corning (Good Company BTW) to me