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Interview With MaxCell's Mark Dudley
Published Jan 19, 2012
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Q. Please give us a brief about your company.
Maxcell manufactures a textile in a duct made out of nylon and polyester 6. Our production facilities are located in the U.S. Traditionally, we’re a cable TV component distributor but MaxCell is the only product that we manufacture. We’ve got manufacturing partners and global and worldwide patents on manufacturing and selling.
The product itself has been around nearly for 12 years, with the business unit dedicated to Europe and the Middle East operational for the last 5 years now. The Middle East for us is definitely an emerging market that we see compared to parts of Europe.
Q. What are your company’s solutions for FTTH Networks?
We produce a textile in a duct; it’s the only product we produce. That is primarily to create extra capacity, an underground duct infrastructure. The way we do that is allowing companies for instance Telecom Egypt or France Telecom to utilize the capacity of that duct more effectively; reduce digging but still allow for deployment of next generation network cables.
Q. In your experience, is the application of triple play a sign that voice, data and video convergence will be the trend on a large scale?
I believe so, yes this is the way it is panned out in parts of Europe and I believe it’ll be the way it goes for a little while at least in the Middle East. But I see a complete turn over and switch over to fiber for most media services in the near future.
Q. What kind of network infrastructure do you recommend to support triple play and/or growing data needs?
Due to the nature of our product, I would say point-to-point is always the best installation method or infrastructure method. I mean there’s GPON, but it’s all going to be fiber eventually. However, I think any infrastructure build or deployment that reduces environmental impact reduces the need for digging which is expensive, is great.
Bearing in mind that if you’re building a network from A to B in the civil side, it’s generally going to be 80% of the cost of that network, so if you can reduce that by not digging up the road by overlaying existing infrastructure, deploying new fiber cables, then you can save yourself a lot of money. So that’s the type of infrastructure and the method of build up I would say is the future.
Q. Do you think fiber might replace copper for networks generally?
Yes, I believe that in the short term, fiber will be replacing copper because of the sheer demand that bandwidth is going to have on the network. Fiber is the future.
Q. How do you differentiate yourself from your competitors?
We’re the only textile in a duct product in the world. We have global manufacturing and sales patents for those products. Because we’re a textile and we’re flexible, it allows us to get into smaller ducts, all the spaces within an existing infrastructure where operators thought were full, so their other option will be to dig up the road, permits take a long time, digging cost per meter costs a lot of money, and the environmental impact is quite great. We are a very green product and also we can alleviate all the problems I just mentioned and allow for the deployment of a new network.
Posted by VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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