It feels to me that the broadband industry is on the cusp of a new era. For many years we’ve been focused on faster, squeezing more bits out of copper, HFC and fiber through successive innovations in transport technology.
But things are changing. Jump ahead a few years and the network of 2020 will be completely different from today. Every network will have a mix of FTTx and FTTH1 technologies, will run additional traffic alongside business and residential broadband, and every network will have some degree of convergence with the wireless world.
