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Photo left to right:
Stephen Hardy, Editorial Director & Associate Publisher, Lightwave
Ian Williams, TELUS, Design Specialist, Access Technologies and Outside Plant Support
Mike Genovese
Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Americas Commercial, Corning Cable Systems
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Ian Williams, Design Specialist on TELUS’ Access Technologies and Outside Plant Support (ATOPS) team, was honored with the 2009 FTTXcellence Award for being a champion of the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) Greenfield network rollout and Brownfield trials underway at TELUS. With more than 29 years’ experience in outside plant and fiber optic technologies, he has developed a strong understanding of the advantages and challenges presented by FTTH in the field. Drawing on that understanding, he now trains and mentors literally hundreds of TELUS team members across Canada who are involved in FTTH.
Ultimately, Williams has become a key part of the TELUS team installing and developing value from gigabit passive optical network (GPON) and state-of-the-art outside plant access solutions across the broad diversity of existing access structure and rigorous climatic conditions in TELUS’ territory. Through this work, Ian’s name is becoming synonymous with FTTH and GPON in the industry and vendor community.
For more information about Ian Williams and the FTTXcellence Award, see the December 2009 issue of Lightwave magazine, or visit the Web site at www.lightwaveonline.com.
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Jim Hansen, Embarq’s senior vice president of network services, was honored with the 2008 FTTXcellence Award. Under Hansen’s leadership, Embarq’s network services organization embraced FTTH as the deployment method for new service addresses and selective over-build locations. Embarq’s adoption of FTTH is a direct result of the efforts and unique approach established by Hansen’s organization, deploying FTTH solutions in a way that maximizes value for both Embarq and its customers. In addition, Hansen continues to coordinate information exchanges through meetings and summits with other service providers as a forum to share common FTTH experiences, concerns and potential areas of partnership.
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Ron Troyer, outside plant and central office plant manager of Union Telephone in Farmington, N.H., was the recipient of the 2007 FTTXcellence Award. Troyer realized the benefits of an FTTH architecture for both the community residents and his company, and Union Telephone became the first independent telephone company in New Hampshire to deploy an FTTH solution and one of the first in the Northeastern United States.
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Glen Lang, CEO of Connexion Technologies, received the 2006 FTTXcellence Award. As CEO of one of the nation’s leading providers of FTTH technology, Lang led Connexion’s effort to provide advanced services to residents through FTTH, which has resulted in widespread developer acceptance, increased industry attention and vendor commitments.
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James Hettrick with the City of Loma Linda, Calif. received the 2005 award. As director of information systems for the city, Hettrick led Loma Linda to become the first city in America to pass an ordinance requiring fiber-to-the-home and structured-wiring infrastructure in all new home and business developments.
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