Webinar Recorded on Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Fiber deployment to and in homes and MDUs is reaching record numbers in North America as the pandemic has highlighted the value of fiber broadband. But the Pandemic also disrupted transportation and strained factories leading to supply chain challenges that will likely remain for some time. With demand expected to continue increasing in North America, resilient supply is essential along with managing total cost of ownership, reaching customers and revenue faster, future ready cabling, and managing inventories.
We will explore the options available for Fiber to the Home Design and Cabling that can affect all the key elements required to build FTTH on schedule and cost effectively.
- FTTH Design Topologies, and their strengths and weaknesses, for urban/suburban and rural builds.
- Cable Design Convergence trends.
- Trade-offs between factory and field terminated cabling.
- Simplified low visibility fiber cabling to and inside homes and buildings.
Presented by:
John George, Senior Director, Solutions and Professional Services, OFS
John George has served with AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and now OFS in various engineering and marketing roles. He currently leads the Solutions and Professional Services group for OFS’s optical fiber, cable, connectivity, and solutions business. John has published and presented numerous papers and articles on fiber optics and FTTH and been active in Industry standards. John has been active in forming IEEE, IEC and TIA optical fiber-related standards, and has been an active member of the Fiber Broadband Association (formerly FTTH Council) from its founding year of 2001, serving on its board of directors since 2008. John has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master of Science in Engineering Administration from Virginia Tech and holds 9 patents.
OFS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, fiber optic cable, connectivity, fiber-to-the-subscriber (FTTX), and specialty photonics products. They provide reliable, cost-effective solutions for a broad range of applications, including telecommunications, medicine, industrial automation, sensing, government, aerospace and defense. These products help their customers meet the needs of consumers and businesses, both today and into the future.
Headquartered in Norcross (near Atlanta), Georgia, U.S.A., OFS is a global provider with facilities in China, Denmark, Germany, Russia, and the United States. OFS is part of Furukawa Electric Company, a multibillion-dollar leader in optical communications.
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