This week’s Next Big Green Thing: GreenTouch unveiled Bit-Interleaved Passive Optical Network (Bi-PON) technology, which enables FTTH networks to reduce their carbon footprint by a factor of 30. GreenTouch is a consortium of tech firms, academic and non-governmental research experts, including Alcatel-Lucent, China Mobile, Samsung, Swisscom and Huawei.
And finally, it was the week in which the Philippines' PLDT finally gave up on broadband powerline (BPL) after three years of trials.
The operator has been testing the feasibility of BPL technology as the basis for a project with power company Meralco to deliver BPL-based broadband services to 4.5 million households since 2009.
But PLDT president Napoleon Nazareno told Malaya Business Insight that the company has determined that the project is not currently technically feasible. PLDT now plans to concentrate its efforts in the partnership on the deployment of smart grid technology instead of BPL.