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The crucial first phase of one of Europe's most ambitious fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) undertakings, Amsterdam CityNet, is on target and is expected to be completed by mid-2008, according to Karel Helsen, director of marketing at Draka Comteq.
In the face of fierce international competition, Draka Comteq won this prestigious contract to make FTTH in big cities a reality in Europe. Upload and download speeds over a hundred times faster than those possible with ADSL over copper are expected to drive consumer markets for high-definition TV, multimedia downloads, and file sharing, as well as numerous other community sharing projects.
"European projects such as Amsterdam CityNet will revolutionise the broadcast and multimedia... |
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