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In July, Ericsson broadband strategy manager Colin Goodwin, who is based in Australia, held a series of government and analyst briefings in which he claimed that “FTTN is not a stepping stone to FTTH”.
“There is very little infrastructure in common; it’s like building a tramline and moving to a bus line,” Goodwin told one briefing attended by Telecommunications Review .
Ericsson managing director Jeff Travers now says Goodwin made those comments before the company had learned of Chorus’s plans.
“Colin hadn’t been briefed on Chorus’s thinking. He was talking on a global basis. It’s not an automatic thing, it needs to be designed,” Travers says.
“But we’re comfortable and Chris (Dhyberg, GM for product management at Chorus) has just explained it is being designed that way by Chorus, so I think we can be confident that Chorus and Telecom are designing this network for FTTH.”
Dhyberg says he’s been surprised by claims that the company hasn’t been designing FTTN as a pathway to FTTH.
“One of the arguments that we’ve faced a lot, particularly from the electricity and lines companies, is that Telecom’s network isn’t designed to deliver FTTH, you couldn’t reuse it. That’s something we’ve been astounded by really because from our perspective the FTTN network has always been designed and planned as a step to FTTH.”
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