NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: OPTICAL NETWORKING 11/15/04 Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED],
In this issue: * SBC has begun trials in fiber-optic deployment * Links related to Optical Networking * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Intel IT Productivity; Increasing ROI Learn how to effectively measure employee productivity, manage IT investments and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership in enterprise data management. Visit Intel's IT Productivity center. Click here to download white papers, books and IDC Research. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88402 _______________________________________________________________ IT SECURITY JOBS TO EXPLODE With an annual compound rate of nearly 14% from now until 2008, information security jobs are far outpacing IT jobs in general. For more results from this recent survey conducted by IDC of full-time security pros in 80 counties worldwide, click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88277 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: SBC outlines Project Lightspeed fiber plan By Jim Duffy SBC last week said network lab and field trials are under way for Project Lightspeed, its multibillion-dollar fiber deployment that's intended to stem cable multisystem operator incursions into SBC's residential base. Network construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2005 and the launch of IP-based TV services over the new network is planned for the fourth quarter of 2005. Project Lightspeed services will be available to 18 million users by 2007, about 90% of SBC's target market, the carrier says. Within five years, SBC expects to be the second largest provider of video services within its fiber footprint. SBC also said it now expects that three-year deployment costs for Project Lightspeed will be approximately $4 billion, at the low end of its previously announced range of $4 billion to $6 billion. In addition, there will be customer-activation capital expenditures of approximately $1 billion spread over 2006 and 2007. In 2005, SBC expects that its total capital expenditures will be at the high end of its 2004 guidance range of $5 billion to $5.5 billion. SBC expects progress from other parts of its core wireline business to more than offset dilution from the deployment. Project Lightspeed will use both Fiber-to-the Premises (FTTP) and Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) technologies. In existing neighborhoods, or "overbuild" situations, SBC plans to use an FTTN architecture, which takes fiber to within 3,000 feet of homes. FTTN is capable of delivering 20M bit/sec to 25M bit/sec downstream, sufficient to simultaneously deliver HDTV, Internet access and IP voice, the carrier says. FTTP architecture will be used in new housing developments, as well as in some multi-dwelling units. SBC expects that FTTN deployment can be completed in one-fourth the time required for an FTTP overbuild and with about one-fifth the capital investment. By the end of 2007, SBC expects to reach 17 million households with FTTN technology and nearly 1 million with FTTP. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Jim Duffy Jim Duffy is managing editor of Network World's service provider equipment coverage <http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/>. He has 18 years of high-tech reporting experience, including over 12 years at Network World. Previously, he was senior editor at Computer Systems News and associate editor/reporter at Electronic News and MIS Week. 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