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. 
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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.

Panel "Do the economics of fibre buildouts stack up?" at Telecoms Europe LIVE

Event: Panel "Do the economics of fibre buildouts stack up?" at Telecoms Europe LIVE
Speaker: Vincent Garnier – Director General
Date and time: 7 June 2023, 10:20 GMT
Location: Cavendish Conference Centre - London, United Kingdom
Organiser: Mobile Europe


Our Director General Vincent Garnier moderated a roundtable panel discussion as part of the programme of Telecoms Europe LIVE. The session featured some high-level representatives from the UK and broader European market such as Clayton Nash, Strategy Director at CityFibre, Oliver Helm, CEO at Full Fibre, and José Pedro Nascimento, Director of Network Engineering and Operations at Altice Portugal, who shared their views on the main trends impacting the telecom industry.

Abstract:

Rival fibre providers are overbuilding, and suffering from low conversions rates of paying subscribers from premises passed and downward price pressure. Can customer experience really be a differentiator? How is private funding changing the market? COVID drove a boom in fibre build-outs in Europe – what other geopolitical and economic factors are having an impact now? Are their new developments in fibre and deployment technologies that help the economics?

 

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