Fiber-to-the-Home in the U.S.A. – Who is installing it and how?
Dr. Bernhard Deutsch, Chairman Architecture & Technology Committee, FTTH Council
Biography
This report has been provided by the Architecture & Technology Committee of the Fiberto-the-Home Council. Founded in 2001 the FTTH Council is a non-profit organization
comprising of telecommunications, computing, networking, applications, content and
service provider companies. Its mission is to educate, promote, and accelerate FTTH and
the resulting quality-of-life enhancements. It currently has more than 80 members. The
Architecture & Technology Committee resulted from the merger of the Architecture &
Economics with the Technology Committee at the end of 2003 and has approximately 65
participants. Further information about the FTTH Council can be found at
www.ftthcouncil.org.
The presenter Dr. Bernhard Deutsch is the Chairman of the Architecture & Technology
Committee of the FTTH Council. He also served as Chairman of Sessions at the National
Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) in 2002 and 2003 as well as the German Chief
Delegate to IEC SC86C, Fibre Optic Systems and Active Devices between 1996 and
2002. Dr. Deutsch has a Ph.D. in Optical Communications and a Masters Degree in
Electrical Engineering, both from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He is the
author or co-author of four books and more than 10 national and international
publications in communications. He holds more than 15 patents in the communications
field. Dr. Deutsch is Director of Market Development, Public Networks for Corning
Cable Systems LLC in Hickory, NC with the emerging market requirements for Access
network markets as a main responsibility. Before this, he held various management
positions for Corning Cable Systems and Siemens in Munich, Germany.