CASE STUDY SITUATION After helping design and build passive optical networks (PON) for 10 towns since 1999, Vince Smith has learned a thing or two about fiber to the premises (FTTP) projects. By the time he was hired in 2003 by Texas-based NTS Communications as an outside plant engineer, Smith had acquired good experience with different architectures as well as with products from different vendors. Just four or five years of experience made S

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