Members of the FTTH Council Europe are active in every segment of the fibre to the home (FTTH) value chain. The Deployment and Operations (D&O) Committee is the place where technology experts come together to discuss, debate and educate the broader telecom ecosystem and help industry stakeholders understand how to deploy high quality full-fibre networks, addressing the large variety of challenges they face throughout Europe.

From design and planning, to optimal technology selection, roll out of operations, testing and maintenance, our key publication, the FTTH Handbook, brings together state-of-the-art information and recommendations to help every FTTH professional in the industry. Its 9th edition was unveiled on 15th September 2021 during the FTTH Virtual Conference 2021; it is already available for members of the FTTH Council Europe on a complementary basis and can be purchased by the general public here.

5G is fibre’s best friend! The D&O Committee has undertaken two valuable pieces of research to evaluate the potential benefits that are brought about through converged planning of FTTH and 5G backhaul networks.  We presented the results of these studies in a recent webinar, you can access the replay here.

More recently, the Committee has produced a white paper which details the reasons underpinning our position in favour of full-fibre compared to alternative broadband technologies. 

 

 

Deployment & Operations Committee: 2026/2027 Session Underway

Jul 24, 2026
Committee News | Deployment & Operations Committee |

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.  

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