To travel from London to Barcelona this week is to travel from deepest winter to balmy spring, which complements the sunny mood at this, the fourth FTTH Council Europe Conference. With a reputed 1200-plus attendees this is the largest such event, having grown from under 500 visitors in Amsterdam in 2004.
The conference is entitled Europe At The Speed of Light, which is rather an optimistic identity when one considers that the FTTH revolution has been scheduled across Europe for at least 10 years. But even if the pace of change is slower than a speeding photon, many people here are quietly confident that the photonic tortoise may yet catch the electronic hare, if one considers the hare to be a ductile reddish metal.
Continue reading Fiber To The Home Warms Up in Barcelona.