Open Access Gaining Attention
With the broadband stimulus debate, the regulatory framwork for future unbundling of fiber access is heating up. Xelerated’s VP of Marketing, Thomas Eklund, made a comment on this at xchange magazine today. Unstrung has started to track service provider take ups to the US government broadband stimulus packages. And today, ECI Telecom announced support for open access in their Multiservice Access Node for GPON deployments.
Investments horizons are long, and there is a need to build trust and long-term commitments to the regulatory framwork for this industry. In the mean time it makes sense to design networks and platforms with programmable software and hardware, enabling alignment to different operational models. ECI is doing the right thing!
It will be interesting to watch service provider statements on this topic.
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