2007 Global FttH - Fibre Networks Becoming a Reality

• FttH trends and developments;
• FttH deployment;
• FttH statistics and forecasts;
• Regional overview;
• Technical information.

1. THE FTTX MARKET IN 2007

1.1 FTTx overview and statistics

1.1.1 Introduction: optical communications

1.1.2 Global overview

1.1.3 FTTx market statistics

1.1.4 FTTx equipment statistics

1.1.5 FTTx installation costs

1.1.6 Regulating fibre: a global issue

1.2 FTTx market analysis

1.2.1 ‘Build and they will come’ - back in favour

1.2.2 FttH becoming a reality

1.2.3 FttH drivers

1.2.4 Future infrastructure - strategic analysis

1.2.5 Fibre-based access

1.2.6 The nationwide road to FttH will take 10-15 years

1.2.7 Fibre-to-the-Node (FttN)

1.2.8 FttH versus FttN

1.2.9 Blown Fibre

1.2.10 FttH business models

1.2.11 Fibre to the farm

2. REGIONAL OVERVIEWS

2.1 North America

2.1.1 USA

2.1.2 Canada

2.2 Latin America

2.2.1 Overview

2.2.2 Mexico

2.2.3 Brazil

2.2.4 Venezuela

2.3 Europe

2.3.1 Western Europe

2.3.2 Eastern Europe

2.4 Africa / Middle East

2.4.1 Africa

2.4.2 Middle East

2.5 Asia

2.5.1 Overview

2.5.2 Japan

2.5.3 South Korea

2.5.4 China

2.5.5 Other Asian markets

2.6 Pacific Region

2.6.1 Australia

2.6.2 New Zealand

3. TECHNOLOGY

3.1 Last Mile - Fibre

3.1.1 Introduction

3.1.2 Customer needs

3.1.3 Needs of telecommunications carriers

3.1.4 Standards organisations and industry bodies

3.1.5 Architectural considerations

4. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

List of Exhibits

Exhibit 1 - Access network technologies

Exhibit 2 - Residential Broadband (BB) - growth predictions - next ten years

Exhibit 3 - Current broadband services

Exhibit 4 - Residential Broadband (BB) - growth predictions - next ten years

Exhibit 5 - Broadband - Infrastructure blueprint

Exhibit 6 - Regional town of Bronckhorst - Netherlands

Exhibit 7 - Agriculture business broadband applications

Exhibit 8 - Facts and figures of the Telstra’s FttN roll-out

Exhibit 9 - Fibre-to-the-Node (FttN)

Exhibit 10 - FttN Group of competitive carriers

Exhibit 11 - Cooperation scenarios

Exhibit 12 - Cooperation access pricing scenarios

Exhibit 13 - Alcatel’s BPON platform

Exhibit 14 - Fibre network overview by provider

List of Tables

Table 1 - FttH subscribers, penetration and growth - Japan, USA, Europe - mid 2007

Table 2 - FttH market penetration - top 6 countries - mid 2007

Table 3 - Worldwide FTTx share of broadband market - 2004; 2006

Table 4 - Worldwide broadband subscribers and market share by access technology - 2006

Table 5 - Worldwide spending on fibre-optic cables - 2006; 2010

Table 6 - Cost of installation - FttH and VDSL - 2005; 2008

Table 7 - Estimated bandwidth requirements per application - 2007

Table 8 - BT lines by capacity - 2007

Table 9 - Broadband household penetration in Arabian Gulf countries - 2006

Table 10 - FttH broadband subscribers in Japan - 2002 - 2007

Table 11 - Japan’s FttH operators - subscribers and market share - 2006

Table 12 - South Korea’s Broadband subscribers by access type - March 2007

Table 13 - South Korea’s FttH subscribers by service provider - March 2007

Table 14 - Taiwan’s Broadband subscribers and annual change by access - 2006