GreenTouch and Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Make FTTH More Energy Efficient

By Jacqueline Lee, Contributing Writer

By 2018, Internet traffic will have increased 50 times over its 2008 rate. Therefore, users need solutions that will deliver rich multimedia content without major power consumption. The GreenTouch consortium projects that 142 million people will utilize fiber-to-the-home technology by 2016. With the invention of bit interleaving passive optical network technology, or Bi-PON, by Alcatel-Lucent (News

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