FTTH Jealousy

October 4, 2005

Just got this news release on a FTTH deployment that includes IPTV, voice, video, video-on-demand, HDTV, ludicrous 100 Mbps Internet speeds, and more. Man, my cable broadband is starting to look like lame dial-up when I read news releases like this!


Optical Entertainment Network (OEN) announced today their plans to deploy fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) to over 1,600,000 households in Houston, Texas, the 10th largest television market in the U.S. The company, who has partnered with leading European and North American vendors plans to launch its United States service offering in December 2005 and begin European operations in Q2 of 2006.

The company has designed the first truly integrated IPTV service for Video, 10 to 100 Mbps Internet, Voice, Video-on-Demand (VOD) and other broadband applications such as, Home Security, videoconferencing and telemedicine. OEN has acquired programming agreements for IPTV distribution from top programming television networks and will deliver over 400 television channels, including 50 plus channels of High Definition Television (HDTV) to subscribers. In addition, OEN will offer video-on-demand, subscription video-on-demand, pay-per-view specials and events and original HDTV programming created by OEN Studios, the creative television production arm of Optical Entertainment Network.

"FTTH makes OEN unique among entertainment service providers", said Tom Wendt, President and CEO. "The marriage of FTTH and OEN's fiber technology allows our service to have the largest programming lineup of any multi-channel video provider in North America."

The OEN system provides state-of-the-art integrated services including standard and high definition television, Internet, telephone services and unified messaging. This network delivers innovative new applications such as, videoconferencing, gaming, telemedicine, niche programming, and connected learning to homes in the Houston area.

All of these services have been integrated into IP (Internet Protocol) architecture, designed specifically for Gigabit Ethernet FTTH systems.

"Other existing Fiber-to-the-Home deployments today are using traditional cable and telephone network technology from the legacy copper based systems", said Curtis Overstreet, Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer, "Our system takes full advantage of the limitless bandwidth capacity offered by the latest in optical technologies to not only generate new revenues from innovative applications but to create some exciting new revenue generating business models such as advertising targeted at the household level".

OEN's first deployment partner is Phonoscope of Houston, Texas, owner of the largest privately held metro fiber network. Already the existing network reaches 200,000 household easements and is within 100 to 500 yards of approximately 1.6 million households in the 6 county areas around Houston. OEN which is already generating revenues from HDTV program production will have live subscribers from day one of this deployment.

"OEN has assembled the best partners in the industry for this venture, including key industry leaders in FTTH construction, engineering services, technology and in investment banking", added Thomas Wendt, "and we've been successful in marrying this infrastructure with the premier entertainment companies of the world", Wendt adds.

About Optical Entertainment Network

Optical Entertainment Network is a Houston, Texas based company providing the first major market deployment of Video, Internet and Voice to residential and commercial customers over a system specifically designed to optimize Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology. The company is a platinum member of the FTTH Council. More information can be found at the company's website at www.4fiber.tv.



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  1. LDonnelly :
    October 27, 2005 5:12 AM

    Dont mean to rain on OEN's party but intune's technology below will enable far east carrier's deliver up to 2.5Gig bandwidth to each subscriber the technology is already developed..Europe and North America lag Asia deployments big time !!!....LDonnelly


    Intune Technologies Ltd. Announces Advanced Broadband
    Optical Communications Subsystem for HDTV

    Dublin, Ireland. – October 26th, 2005. Intune Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of Ultra Fast Communications and Sensing Optical Subsystems, today announced the arrival of the AltoNet 1200 EC Fast Wavelength Switched Optical Subsystem specifically designed for the emerging HDTV market.

    Intune’s family of AltoNet 1200 Fast Wavelength Switched Optical Subsystem platforms are currently deployed in ROADM, FTTH, FTTP, IPTV, HDTV, Transponder card, and PON network systems. Now the future delivery of live HDTV networks has been the key catalyst for the development of the AltoNet 1200 EC.

    AltoNet 1200 EC for HDTV

    Intune’s existing AltoNet 1200 family is available in C or L band modules, and actively lock’s from any ITU channel to any other ITU channel in 200ns or an order of magnitude less on request. 200 ns = 200 billionths (10-9) of a second.

    AltoNet 1200 EC (Extended Channel) has been developed based on a set of specific requests from a number of Intune’s Service Provider and Network Systems vendor customers, resulting from pilot network test activities with the 1200 product family for next generation HDTV full service networks.

    The need for the AltoNet 1200 EC has arisen due to HDTV customer test data, which has also been reinforced recently by commentary from leading industry reports on future HDTV and IPTV services, that real network scalability and bandwidth capacity will be critical influencing factors in the successful roll-out of entertainment content driven networks. The consumer wants all the bandwidth they can get, hence EC.

    Intune working with its customers has now developed an integrated AltoNet 1200 EC320 and AltoNet 1200 EC400, which integrates 320 channels and 400 channels respectively. With the addition of more and more channels, Service Providers will be able to support greater numbers of customers with fewer optical subsystem paths thus significantly reducing the fixed cost of installation per subscriber.

    The new family of AltoNet 1200’s with addition of EC consolidates Intune’s leadership position as clearly the fastest commercial switching technology on the market worldwide today. Intune’s customers will benefit from increased network efficiency and help position them for delivery of a vastly superior bandwidth available service for all their entertainment class customers.

    The AltoNet 1200 EC is supported in both C and L band subsystems packaging options and features 12.5GHz channel spacing. The subsystem actively locks from any channel to any other channel, making it suitable for both asynchronous and synchronous applications.

    Intune is committed to delivering pioneering solutions in optical communications and sensing technologies. Intune is also dedicated to providing a world class support team of photonics design and field applications engineers. For more information about Intune Technologies, visit www.intune-technologies.com, email support@intunetech.com, or
    call Fergal Ward, + 353 1 620 4706


  1. James :
    February 21, 2007 9:32 PM

    Hmmm...I don't care what is happening in another county. I care about what I can get here nad now. I will be getting OEN FTTH this summer. I will try to get by with my pitiful little gigabyte drop with only 100 MB of synchronous internet access.


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