Monthly Archives: April 2013

Warburg Pincus Invests In Polish Fibre Optic Network Operator INEA for FTTH Patch Cables

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Polish fibre optic network operator INEA SA says it has received a strategic investment from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing. The investment firm has committed additional funding for growth and consolidation, including planned roll out of fibre to the home (FTTH patch cable) technology. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Since its foundation in 1992, INEA has grown into the fourth-largest fibre optic network operator in Poland and claims it is the leading triple-play operator in the Wielkopolska region. Passing 360,000 homes and serving 170,000 subscribers, INEA provides telecommunications services over its fully upgraded network, including HotSpots throughout Poznan and its own local TV channel. Wielkopolska is the third-largest Polish province with a population of 3.4 million. In 2012 the dompany generated revenues of PLN 169 million ($53 million).

The FTTH roll out will extend fibre-optic broadband access to over 200,000 additional households and a significant number of businesses in Wielkopolska. INEA says its fibre optic network will be the most advanced in Poland, providing high-speed broadband access to over 500,000 homes across the entire Wielkopolska region.

In addition, the investment by Warburg Pincus will support INEA’s ability to consolidate the highly fragmented local cable market.

The transaction is believed to be the largest private equity investment in Poland this year.

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Domestic profits upturn in fiber optic network manufacturer in 2012

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Recently, the domestic mainstream fiber optic network manufacturers have released 2012 earnings in 2012, as a whole, the mainstream in 2012 cable manufacturers keep faster growth rates, specialising in broadband speed and TD-LTE accelerate big market environment, the domestic indoor distribution cables and outdoor loose tube cables industry again see the peak development period.

In 2012, with the implementation of the broadband speed engineering, fiber optic cable achieved a significant growth demand. Mainstream cable manufacturer in cable business income of significant growth shows the good momentum of development of domestic cable market in 2012.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning that several vendors cable product gross margin increase, largely due to the manufacturer’s ability of the independent research and development and overall market competition environment. Zhongtian technology in its earnings, points out that the realization of the optical fiber preform part capacity, radio frequency cable, reasonable market price promotion and submarine cable, submarine photoelectric composite cable increase sales, improve the telecom industry chain gross margin level.

From the perspective of the development of cable industry in China, the capacity of bulk fiber cables have been affect domestic gross margin is important one annulus of cable manufacturers, a large number of light rods imported compress the profit level of the manufacturers, from 2012, can also be seen in the results, the manufacturer of light bar production capacity has been improved significantly.

Mode Conditioning Patch Cables in Gigabit Ethernet

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Mode Conditioning Patch Cables in Gigabit Ethernet

Figure 1:Mode Conditioning Patch Cable

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IEEE 802.3z-compliant optical fibre assembly consisting of a single-mode fibre permanently coupled off-centre to a 62.5-micron multimode optical fibre with duplex SC connectors at both ends. The patch cord is 3 meters (9.84 feet) in length.

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IEEE 802.3z-compliant optical fibre assembly consisting of a single-mode fibre permanently coupled off-centre to a 50-micron multimode optical fibre with duplex SC connectors at both ends. The patch cord is 1 meter (3.28 feet) in length.

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IEEE 802.3z-compliant optical fibre assembly consisting of a single-mode fibre permanently coupled off-centre to a 62.5-micron multimode optical fibre with duplex SC connectors at one end and duplex LC connectors at the other end. The Mode Conditioning Patch cord is 1 meter (3.28 feet) in length.

Figure 1 shows an MCP and how it is typically connected to a transceiver module. When required, it is inserted between a transceiver module and the MMF cable plant.

Figure 2. Mode Conditioning Patch Cords Installation

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China Optical Fiber To The Home will Release 8 Trillion Business Opportunities

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From global telecommunications network investment development in the last five years, China has become a leading global network equipment, which is one of the main kinetic energy market growth. As the optical FTTH(fiber to the home) FTTH patch cables policy, RMB 600 billion forecast will bring business opportunities, in addition to the infrastructure construction, the Chinese are optimistic forecasts for the whole broadband policy related investment on the upstream and downstream industry more than 1.6 million yuan. In addition to broadband policy, China to accelerate the development of 4 g, driven optical fiber and CNC equipment performance grow.

Housing and urban-rural development, according to media reports, China’s ministry of industry and information technology, has issued “residential area and residential buildings fiber-to-the-home fiber optic transmission facilities engineering design specification”, “residential area and residential buildings fiber-to-the-home fiber optic transmission facilities engineering construction and acceptance norms”, the two national standards, to the situation of the implementation of the optical fiber to the home for the first time to make mandatory provisions.

According to the rules, from April 1, in public telecommunication network is optical fiber transmission. New residential and residential construction of communications facilities, should use optical fiber to the home way construction, at the same time, encourage and support the conditional towns, rural housing project.

According to internet service providers, if you want to complete “250 million broadband users, access speed urban family an average of more than 20 m rural averaged more than 4 m in 2015,”, individual operators, the total cost of the national broadband network construction, will need about 200 billion yuan to 280 billion yuan, the three operators will exceed 600 billion yuan total construction cost.

China ministry of industry and in the “broadband China 2013” conference earlier this year has also suggested to add FTTH (fiber to the home) covering number exceeds 35 million goals. Ministry of industry and at the same time, according to the last year China FTTH coverage expanded to 94 million households.

The Broadband Wider and Wider, Which Benefits Cables Management Suppliers

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MITT(Ministry of Industry and Information) published news that the ministry, the national development and reform commission eight departments jointly issued “on the implementation of broadband’s opinions on China’s 2013 special action, points out that more than 4M broadband users in China will exceed 70% in 2013. Analysts believe that the Internet companies are expected to benefit from broadband equipment suppliers.

“Opinions” pointed out that in 2013, the new FTTH fiber to the home fiber optic patch cables family covered more than 35 million units, 3G base station across 180000, 1.3million new WLAN access point. Universal scale expands unceasingly to benefit the people. The new fixed broadband Internet users more than 25 million units, the new 3G users, new broadband administrative villages, 18000, 5000 poor rural areas by accelerated the broadband access or modification of primary and secondary schools, a user use above 4M access more than 70%.

Cic’s consultant in the IT industry researcher Wang Ningyuan analysis that the ministry had issued a number of policies to promote the development of the broadband industry, the above opinion is a complement to the policy, put forward specific requirements for broadband industry development. Mainly in rural areas, urban old residential area of cables management broadband and wireless broadband, and guide enterprises to actively expand remote rural market, and to improve broadband fiber optic network industry.

Mr. Zhang thinks that from the perspective of the investment returns, China Unicom is a mature network system suppliers; ZTE in base station construction will have certain positive, investors can focus on for a long time. Additionally notable sector stocks, optical equipment suppliers such as zhongtian technology; Mobile device accessories manufacturers such as Wu Tong communications, Da Fu technology,etc.

But Wang Ningyuan also reminded investors, broadband stocks p/e ratio is generally on the high side, the ministry has introduced various policies, such opinion to the positive role of the market is limited, not enough to support the current high earnings expectations.

The Biggest Ratio eOTDR Prototype

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eHuawei announced that they have successfully developed the industry’s largest spectral built-in optical time domain reflection tester, which maximum support is 1:64, through the network simulation, its precision is up to 5 metres. The technique breakthrough marked the eOTDR technology has reached FTTHPON network commercial networking requirements.

Embedded Optical Time Domain Reflectometre, which is short for eOTDR. It’s the utilisation of scattering light in optical fibre transmission and precision instrument, is mainly used for optical fibre quality detection and fault location, etc. Traditional external OTDR test system in PON FTTH network maintenance and fault detection, the need to change the ODN physical optical fibre connection, the system has high cost, difficult to implement.

With the development of FTTx, optical fibre developed quickly. Operators increase investments for fibre optic network year by year. How to manage cables management quickly and efficiently, to reduce OPEX, become the urgent demand of operators FTTx network construction.

Huawei eOTDR prototype through the built-in OTDR in OLTPON optical module, which can judge the fibre’s physical connection. At the same time, the built-in OTDR module and ordinary optical module size is consistent. Operators will place ordinary optical module with built-in OTDR optical module, but can not change the FTTx fibre physical network, also do not need ONT extra coordinate positioning, to avoid the external engineering of OTDR test, shorten the time needed for a fibre fault location, reduce the fibre optic fault management costs.

The industry mainstream manufacturers provide 1:8 eOTDR product ratio, after many years of technical research and experimental verification, the breakthrough to develop the  1:64 eOTDR prototype, covering the mainstream of FTTH patch cables construction scene, marked the eOTDR technology realized, breakthroughs from lab scale to commercial technological.

Fiberhome Optical Fibre Cable Capacity May Break Through 20 Million This Year

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Recently, Fiberhome said that their fibre optic networks production capacity will exceed 20 million kilometers this year, which is equivalent to around 500 rounds in earth’s equator.

Meanwhile, the ministry put forward the “broadband China 2013” special action program, three carriers have also launched their broadband speed planning. Fibre optic transmission market demand further release. Under this background, the domestic fibre optic tools manufacturer can have preparations expansion.

Industry-leading fibre optic network company, Fiberhome introduced that its light stick phase ii expansion project, the two largest production for optical fibre expansion projects are in debug optimization, its first overseas industrial base will soon put into production, also form a complete, large capacity of the industrial chain.

Postpartum after expansion projects, Fiberhome’s optical rods, common fibre patch leads, MPO-MTP fibre cables production capacity this year will exceed 20 million kilometers, is 500 times of the length of the equator. Among them, the high-end industry upstream raw material optical stick, not only get rid of the present situation of the imported optical stick, also have the ability to supply the international market.

Hainan New Housing Will be Installed Fiber To The Home,Users Can Customize Operators

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On16, we learned information from housing and construction department of Hainan province, to implement the national ministries to speed up the popularization fiber-to-the-home FTTH fiber optic cables broadband China construction requirements, to promote residential and residential building in the construction of optical fiber to the home, new housing will be comprehensive implement the optical fiber to the home work of Hainan province.

According to the state ministries issued “residential area and residential buildings fiber-to-the-home fiber optic transmission facilities engineering design code” and “residential area and residential buildings fiber-to-the-home communication facilities engineering construction and acceptance standard” requirements: in public telecommunication network is optical fiber transmission at county level and above, the new residential and residential construction mode of communication facilities should use optical fiber to the home construction;

Engineering design must have several equal accesses, user can choose telecommunication business operators. Newly built residential area and residential buildings of underground communication pipe, distribution pipe network, telecommunications, equipment and other communication facilities must be synchronous with residential area and residential buildings construction, synchronous acceptance.

According to introduction, in various cities and counties of Hainan province related departments to strengthen supervision, to solve the optical fiber to the home renovation entry difficult problem. At the same time, encourage and support the conditional villages and towns, rural housing project and residential construction to realize optical fiber to the home. Residential construction unit, realty service enterprise should actively support optical fiber to the home renovation, shall not be restricted telecom operating companies equal access and use, shall not restrict the user options.

Japan Launched Highest Speed 2Gbps Fibre Optic Network, Faster Than Google Fibre

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Japanese communication fibre optic network company So-net announced yesterday that they have introduced the world’s highest speed fibre optic networks “NURO optic”, as “one of the world’s fastest” personal commercial fibre-to-the-home cable service, faster than Google Fibre. Its the biggest 2 GBPS download speed, upload speed is 1 GBPS, and supports a maximum speed of 450 MBPS wireless base stations.

To deal with “NURO optic” now is to sign up for two years, monthly 4980 yen, at the same time you need to pay 840 yen fees and 31500 yen for installation cost. But “NURO optic” service has not been extended to all of cities in Japan, only open the Tokyo and the Kanto and other four cities.

So-Net was established in 1995 in November, and in the next year began to provide  fibre optic network services. In 2001, So-Net began to arrive in Taiwan. So-Net Hong Kong is in 2001 to provide broadband Internet access services and with the SONY brand and premium strategy called preemption already saturated cable management Internet users.

In May 2002, cooperate in central Tokyo electric power, electric power company, started to provide fibre-optic Internet service. (In early August last year, SONY announced that it plan to spend 60 billion yen ($764 million) to buy a 42% stake, the rest of the implementation of the company’s sole holding. SONY plans to use the So-Net to enhance Japan and the Asian companies and interactive entertainment experience, and hopes to provide new web fibre optic transmission services project.).

New Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH) Fibre Optic Cables Distribution

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AFL has launched a new series of low smoke zero halogen (LSZH) cable distribution, using fibre optic cable to the company product portfolio standard of superior design and engineering expertise.

“With strict environmental or safety regulations or workplace ventilation, the AFL LSZH cable provides a solution that supports both NFPA70 standards strictly, and greatly reduces the conditions when exposed to heat or flame, potentially toxic emissions AFL cable enterprise business manager Doug Baker said.

LSZH fibre optic cables design are in line with national and international safety regulations. LSZH cable performance in accordance with UL 1666, UL 1685 OFNR – LS standard and the international electrotechnical commission (IEC) standard of 60332, 60754 and 61034. In addition, the fibre optic network design based on the 900 microns of tightly packed buffer structure, it provides the needed to meet the requirements of network installation performance and ease of use. The optical cable is designed to support directly or indirectly clamping scheme, and the cables management system can be accessed.

LSZH cables management structure at the same time supports including 50 microns OM4 fibre cables of multimode optical fibre and single mode solution, these two kinds of optical fibre is not sensitive structure are applied to flexible design. LSZH fibre optic cables suitable for communications cabinets and equipment room, data centre backbone cabling, LAN between distribution and main buildings, as well as the halogen free safety performance and environment in the process of the termination of optical components in the wiring.

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