Alcatel-Lucent shares four critical determinants for FTTx implementation at FTTH Middle East Conference

Alcatel-Lucent will thus present some valuable insights for service providers, investors, regulators and other FTTH stakeholders of the Middle East region who are considering stepping into the FTTx business.

Being the worldwide leader in fixed broadband access, Alcatel-Lucent understands that each service provider's FTTx strategy is actually a highly individualized blend of measures - carefully tailored to local circumstances. Concretely, four factors stand out as the most critical determinants for successfully engaging in fiber deployments:

• A nationwide fiber strategy with a clear regulatory framework is needed to encourage fair competition and stimulate mass FTTx adoption - even in underserved areas;

• Local marketing efforts and actual deployments must go hand-in-hand to secure high take rates. As a matter of fact, recent studies have unveiled an FTTx dilemma: high user satisfaction among fiber users, but low awareness of FTTx benefits among the general public;

• A pragmatic FTTx deployment approach is necessary in an environment of financial turmoil. It is all about bringing "fiber to the most economical point" - a concrete example of which would be to deploy 2.5G GPON today and overlay 10G GPON as the time is right... This is a strategy that is fully supported by Alcatel-Lucent's FTTx family of products;

• The access network must be leveraged to benefit from additional applications such as mobile backhaul and Ethernet Business Access - to dramatically reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

Thomas Kallstenius, Director Product Marketing at Alcatel-Lucent, will discuss on these four key factors in much greater detail during the conference session "Voice of the Industry" - which has been scheduled on November 11th from 11h00 till 13h00 local time.

"As a leading telecom player, we feel obliged to provide the attendees to this first FTTH Middle East Conference with as much as good advice as possible," said Nicolat Bouverot, heading Alcatel-Lucent's Middle East activities. "With more than 95 FTTH projects around the world, over 80 of which are with GPON, we are able to help service providers, governments and utilities/municipalities successfully meet their high-capacity network objectives."

In Gartner's latest FTTH Magic Quadrant assessment, Alcatel-Lucent was positioned in the leaders quadrant for the fiber-to-the-home space. Come and visit us at booth 5G, where our experts will be available to answer any of your questions.