The Year's Biggest Fiber to the Home Event!

Everything FTTH Under One Roof

This year we return to the fabulous Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, where nearly 2000 people from across the FTTH industry will gather to share experiences, learn about new fiber access technologies and ways to market them to consumers, and walk the floor of the FTTH industry's biggest and best trade show, with more than 130 exhibitors.

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An Outstanding Opportunity to Increase Your Fiber Knowledge

More than 50 panels and track sessions.  Best practices and lessons learned. Hands-on demonstrations of all the latest home and business technologies in the Fiber Zone.  And a focus on marketing strategy and business success.  This is the one FTTH event of the year that you cannot afford to miss!

Check out the multitude of learning opportunities in the following areas:

Network Design and Operations              Cabling and MDU             Business Issues and Marketing

Utilities, Smart Grid and Green Tech       Consumer Applications, Content and In-Home Networking

Latin America (in Spanish/Portuguese)    Industry Trends, Future Technologies and Public Policy

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Don't Miss the 2010 Fiber Zone!

The Fiber Zone features hands-on activities and interactive demonstrations showcasing services that are best facilitated by FTTH.  Visitors can experience the live products and services on the leading edge of the content revolution, as contributors ranging from FTTH carriers to application developers demonstrate how they are responding to the challenge of "FTTH: All Fiber - All the Way!"  Read more about the cutting-edge services and applications that will be demonstrated in the Fiber Zone...

Conference Keynote Speakers

Katie Espeseth      Vice President        EPB FiberOptics EPB Fiber Optics is the municipally-owned fiber to the home network that is offering 150 Mbps symmetrical Internet speeds in a service area covering 170,000 homes and businesses in the Chattanooga metro area. Read more  What happened to Mike Quigley?		Ivan Toner Chief Technology Officer, Bell Aliant Bell Aliant is investing in almost half a billion dollars to bring FTTH to more than 600,000 homes and businesses in Canada. Read more		Ellis Hill Executive   Director, Broadband  Multimedia Marketing Association A longtime telecom marketing consultant, he heads an  organization to advance the adoption and use of broadband  services by identifying key industry success factors and sharing best practices in marketing.  Read more		André Kriger FTTH Director, Telefonica Brazil LATAM Keynote Speaker In 2009 he joined Telefonica´s fixed operation in Brazil where he was put in charge of coordinating the company´s quality efforts turnaround along the with the newly appointed COO.   Read more

Who Will Be There?

Independent telecoms from across North America that are “future-proofing” their networks by making the upgrade to FTTH. Competitive broadband providers looking to take that next step to all-fiber connectivity. A wide variety of FTTH equipment manufacturers and other broadband solutions providers showing their latest products. Engineering, outside plant, consulting and construction firms that work with network operators to wire up North America with next-generation fiber. Municipalities that operate or build FTTH networks as public utilities for their residents.

Be Sure to Check Out Our Co-Located Events...

More excellent opportunities to increase your fiber knowledge!

Digital Home Summit
Thursday, September 16:  8am - 5pm
Profitable success for broadband carriers must include an effective digital home strategy. Gain insight for yours at the Digital Home Summit 2010. Register here.

Fiber 102
Thursday, September 16:  9am - 4pm

An easy to absorb, easy to follow "building block" session that allows the novice or expert to understand the many FTTx design and installation options including optical theory, standards, components, variations, systems, and associated maintenance disciplines.  To register, click here...

 

WDM-PON Workshop – Free of Charge!
Sunday, September 12:  8am - 4pm
All Day Organized by the WDM-PON Forum, this workshop’s purpose is to provide a place for interested members of the WDM-PON community to share information and discuss the past, present, and especially the future of WDM-PON technology. For registration and to respond to the Call for Papers, go to www.fiberin.com under WDM PON workshop registration. 

Certified Fiber to the Home Professional (CFHP) 2 Day Course
Thursday September 16 & Friday September 17:  8am - 5pm
A two-day Certified Fiber to the Home Professional (CFHP) Training Course developed by Light Brigade with assistance from FTTH member companies and organizations.  The course is structured to certify competence in overall FTTH theory, terminology, topology, equipment and system cost estimation.  To register, click here...

The Great Video Brain-Unloading Workshop

Sunday, September 12:  9am - 5pm
A day-long session on video over FTTH by “the original cable guy,” Jim Farmer of Enablence, who is one of the FTTH industry’s true pioneers.  To register, click here...

Read more about all our co-located workshops.

What Do They Say About the FTTH Conference & Expo?

“This event is a critical way for us to keep tabs on technology and product developments across the FTTH space, and to meet the telecom service providers who are planning their upgrades to all-fiber access. It’s more than a trade show – it’s a learning conference. The return on investment has been outstanding for us.”    

Kevin Morgan, Director-Product Marketing - ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division

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"Being new to the fiber to the home industry, the conferences have provided me with a wealth of information and contacts. The opportunity to share with others is very valuable, especially at a time where there is a lot changing in the fiber world."  

Beki Gibson, Research Manager - The Charles Machine Works

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 "Attending FTTH annual Conference & Expo is essential if you want to keep up with the ever-evolving technologies and best practices that are defining today's cutting-edge fiber to the home services. This is not only a great trade show but also a great opportunity to network with peers, to exchange ideas, and to learn about FTTH technologies and applications in a dynamic environment."

Kyle Hollifield, VP Marketing and Business Development - Bristol Virginia Utilities

"Attending the conference over the years has helped me acquire or learn many different techniques for developing, designing and operating our system from others who have gone down the road before us.”

Frank Latini

Technical Services Manager

Gainsville Regional Utilities/GRUCom

Co-Located Events   Interested in Sponsorship Opportunities? The FTTH Council offers a variety of advertising and sponsorship programs across a broad range of support levels - there's one to fit your budget!  Click here to have a look at the Council's Prospectus.  And check out our list of Marketing Opportunities for Exhibitors.  For more information, email Laurie Poole, the FTTH Council's Director of Strategic Alliances and Stakeholder Relations, or call Laurie at 972-618-0864. ________ A Message from our Conference Chairman.......   "We are excited to host this year's FTTH Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, where nearly 2,000 attendees from across North America and more than 40 countries around the world - and particularly a growing contingent from the Latin American region - will gather under the banner of FTTH:  All Fiber, All the Way!  Despite the recent gyrations of local and global economies, the ongoing growth and success of this event is testament to the capacity of all-fiber networks to deliver what consumers and their communities want - more bandwidth and to stay on the cutting edge of the Information Age.  Join us in September and be a part of the next-generation broadband revolution!"                 Mike Hill President/CEO, On Trac, Inc. Chairman 2010 FTTH Conference & Expo   ________   Did you know that FTTH Networks...   Serve nearly six million North American households?     Are already being built or operated by more than 800 telecom service providers in the U.S. and Canada?   Will rise from 44 million to 106 million subscribers globally by 2014, according to ABI Research?   Are involved in the vast majority of the broadband stimulus last-mile awards that have been announced thus far?

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