Growing Bandwidth Demand Offers Profit Potential.
The demand for broadband connectivity and services to handle bandwidth-dependent applications is exploding across many global markets. Services such as carrier-class telephony, high-speed Internet access, voice-over-internet (VoIP), broadcast TV, HDTV, real-time duplex video, online gaming and video-on-demand (VoD) represent substantial new revenue opportunities for communications service providers and equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Profitability and long-term competitive advantage in providing these broadband services depend on active network development, careful technology choices and effective resource management. A window of opportunity has opened, and now is the time for action.
From the central office across the outside plant into the customer premises, 3M offers an unmatched value proposition for deployment of fiber optics in the physical-media layer.
Splicing, connecting, management and protection of fiber optic media are core competencies of 3M.
