The objective of this committee is to help Communication Service Providers avoid churn & create revenue opportunities through the provision of enhanced user experience.

While more and more households have access to full-fibre network, it becomes crucial to avoid home connectivity becoming a bottle neck and that the new gigabit services can efficiently reach end user devices without degradation of speed or performance.

The In-Home Broadband Excellence committee addresses the following questions:

  • how to provide, manage and monitor ‘Quality of Experience’ for the end-user
  • how to monetise value-added services and reduce costs
  • how to leverage standards and provide pointers to industry fora

You can expect multiple initiatives from this dynamic group, such as the In-Home Broadband Excellence Guide, available for every member of the FTTH Council Europe and sold to non-members at a price of €36 inc. VAT* una tantum, intended to help Communication Service Providers understand the topic of ‘In-home Broadband Excellence’ and optimize their business strategies to reap the benefits of fibre-based connectivity delivered to end-users' premises.

The In-Home Broadband Excellence committee is also very much engaged in the organisation of workshops at the annual FTTH Conference, as well webinars and other communications.

 

*This price includes 21% VAT applicable in Belgium. If you are purchasing on behalf of a company based outside of Belgium you will not be required to pay VAT. For all UK and EC Member state registered companies please have your VAT number to include when purchasing

 

 

Deployment & Operations Committee: 2026/2027 Session Underway

The D&O committee held the first committee meeting of the new 2026/2027 session with several goals in mind.    

1) Identify the three key areas of focus for the coming year, these have been identified as Network Resilience, HFC Migration and Optical LAN.     
2) Choose Vice Chairs for each of these topics.  The call for Vice Chairs has been made and I am happy to inform the group that we have volunteers for both the Network Resiliency and Optical LAN topics.  We remain looking for a volunteer for the HFC migration topic.   
3) Start looking at the FTTH handbook with an eye towards edition 10, areas of update, new topics for discussion. 4) Identify areas of collaboration with other committees, such as the new Data centre & Data Centre Interconnect committee where some topics can converge.  

Announcing the vice-chairs I would like to thank the following for stepping up to take on these important working roles:  

Vice Chair for Network Resilience:   Nicolas Vandepuy, Fixed Networks Services Innovation Director, Nokia
Vice Chair for Optical LAN: Cemil Canturk, Senior Marketing Manager Optical LAN, Nokia
Vice Chair for HFC Migration:  Position still open.  

We urge anyone interested in the topic of HFC Migration who would like to help organise the work on this topic to get in touch with me over the next week if this position might interest you.  We are extremely happy to get the ball rolling and continue on with the great work of the Deployment and Operations committee as we prepare for a busy 2027.