CityFibre CTO plots PON roadmap to 50G and beyond
UK fibreco CTO David Tomalin talks PON future: XGS now in place and a 10–20 year technology roadmap that elects to leapfrog 25G. Vendor interoperability deemed marker of market maturity, with long-time favourites Calix and Nokia earning plaudits…
This article includes:
- Themes: Acquisition integration; Broadband World Forum (BBWF); Customer-led migration; Digital signal processing (DSP); Fibre upgrade programme; Interoperability; Market maturity; Network consolidation; Optical line terminal (OLT); Optical network terminal (ONT); Passive optical network (PON); Programmatic integration; Technology roadmap; Vendor partnerships; XGS-PON; 25G PON; 50G PON; 100G PON.
- Events: Connected Britain 2025; Eight Advisory’s Fibre Market Panel Discussion; BBWF’s State of PON.
- People: David Tomalin; Jeremy Chelot; Will Creedy.
- Geographic: East Riding; Guildford; Hull; Ipswich; UK; York.
- Organisations: Adtran; Calix; CityFibre; Connexin; Deepomatic; FibreNation; IQGeo; Lit Fibre; MS3; Netomnia; Nokia; Openreach; TalkTalk; Virgin Media O2; nexfibre
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