Beginning of 2008, the U.S. also a nationwide operator Verizon announced that it is the mainstream of existing BPON systems to large-scale upgrade to GPON, enabling each household to provide 50M bit / sec of downstream bandwidth and the future plans for individual families 100M bit / s downstream bandwidth. Current carriers in North America in the construction of models FTTx are two major types: FTTP and FTTN. Verizon FTTx construction in the relatively radical, either new or existing building renovation, are used models FTTP; and AT T and Qwest are relatively conservative, not yet covered copper wire Cornings telecommunications business unit of Corning Cable Systems announced on 22 July PorchLight has selected Corning Cable Systems Evolant solution for its U.S. nationwide FTTH network deployment. The Evolant for FTTH product portfolio includes a range of optical fiber, cable, hardware and equipment, enabling faster network deployment, convenient, reliable and economic.
A new technology is IBM OPTIMIZETest, can make to the IT center of test automation. IBM said the use of this tool Niu Yue Ma Li Si Te Institute of less than half the time to complete the testing and early detection of problems. Other new products include IBM used to monitor the performance of the Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database ] ] one for the tracking servers, storage devices, networks and details the relationship between the platforms. Earlier this week, IBM also announced the automatic tracking and management of data center power consumption of the Systems Director Active Energy Manager. With IBMs autonomic computing products from the new is its emphasis on open standards. Such a standard is the Cosmos project. Cosmos aimed at improving the management tools from different vendors for interoperability.