About the Committee

The Data Centre & Data Centre Interconnection Committee is the FTTH Council Europe's newest committee, established to reflect the Council's expanded remit across data centres and the fibre infrastructure that connects them.

The Committee's current work programme includes a report on hollow core fibre (HCF) and multi-core fibre (MCF), a DCI market study developed with the Board, and updates to the Market Panorama to capture the Council's broader scope. Alongside this, the Committee is developing a programme of educational webinars for members on AI-driven data centres, covering the underlying drivers and market trends, internal data centre architectures and wider interconnection architectures.

The Committee also leads the data centre and interconnection content at the annual FTTH Conference, shaping several hours of programming across the full breadth of the Council's expanded remit. 
Further outputs will follow, including new assets, market studies and content developed for the upcoming FTTH Conference. Click here and join us!

This page is new and still growing. The Committee's assets, studies and Conference materials are currently in production and will be added here as they are published. In the meantime, you can follow the Committee's latest news below.

"World Optical Fibre & Cable 2022" conference by CRU Group

Event: Panel discussion: "Overcoming challenges and growth inhibitors for global connectivity"
Speaker: Vincent Garnier – Director General
Date and time: 8 November 2022, 13:30-14:30 CET
Location: Meliá Milano - Milan, Italy
Organiser: CRU Group


Some of the main challenges that the fibre industry will need to address in the short-term include 1) enhancing in-home connectivity, to avoid the end of the network from becoming a bottleneck 2) driving demand and accelerating take up, as we observe a visible a tangible disparity between the FTTH deployment and adoption rates acroos Europe 3) planning for effective and adequate copper switch off initiatives. During this high-level panel discussion, our Director General Vincent Garnier brought the voice of the FTTH Council Europe on stage by discussing the best strategies to make this happen, with a constant eye open on the sustainability issue.

 

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