History
Clear Fibre Technologies’ principal, Barry Owen, started in the telecommunications industry 41 years ago.
At that time, fibre networks were limited mostly to city to city/province to province connectivity and even that was relatively sparse. Everything else, save a few AML shots here and there, was copper based. In the mid 1980’s, working for a major CATV communications provider in Canada, Barry was introduced to and immersed in fibre optic infrastructure design/build with the end goal of implementing hybrid networks that would increase the reliability of the CATV network overall.
Fast forward 30 years, hundreds of thousands of fibre kilometres built, tens of thousands of connectors tested, and the birth of Clear Fibre Technologies was realized.
Probably the most exciting time for fibre optic network topologies, save for when it was originally realized as a bonafide network alternative, is right now. The reason for this is simple. ‘Light’ technology was a necessity to relieve the shortfalls of copper networks. Yet, until recently, copper has still been a necessity in the ‘last mile’ in order to service the masses. The data ‘bottle-neck’ persisted.
Enter-GPON. A network that brings the fibre right to the subscriber, whether it be a Bank or Mrs. Smith in apartment 301. Now, the types of services that can be brought to every individual, is limited only by our imaginations and our place in history.
