NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JIM DUFFY WITH VIEW FROM THE EDGE 11/18/04 Today's focus: SBC outlines fiber plan
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Within five years, SBC expects to be the second-largest provider of video services within its fiber footprint. SBC recently awarded Alcatel a $1.7 billion, five-year contract to act as integrator for Project Lightspeed. The RBOC 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. Project Lightspeed will use Fiber-to-the Premises (FTTP) and Fiber-to-the Premises (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 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 one million with FTTP. Verizon is going all-FTTP. It expects to save 50% in operational costs when it retires its copper plant. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS SBC picks Alcatel for FTTN The Edge, 10/20/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1020sbcal.html Supercomm: SBC investing $6 billion in fiber The Edge, 06/22/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0622sbcfiber.html At Lightspeed Network World, 10/01/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/columnists/2004/0927edgecol2.html _______________________________________________________________ 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. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored By BMC Software Linking IT Priorities to Business Objectives, an IDC whitepaper. 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