Robert Wilkins

Robert Wilkins

I am leading the Passives & Indoors product management activities at Teleste. See my LinkedIn for more information.

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All blog posts by Robert Wilkins

1 September, 2023

Converting FTTx homes passed to homes connected

The big challenge facing FTTx operators is to convert homes passed into homes connected. Having spent money building fibre distribution networks that bring many exciting services to customer premises, the emphasis is now on getting customers connected to start earning revenue streams for the operators.
10 May, 2023

FTTx Innovation Cycle

As operators deploy more FTTx solutions, it is important that they have the necessary products to facilitate effective network builds and simplify customer installations, ultimately converting homes passed into homes connected.
14 February, 2023

RF amplifiers are key to good quality signal distribution

When building broadband coaxial networks, it is vital to ensure that all the components are of high quality and easy to use. That is the philosophy we at Teleste apply in the design and production of our RF amplifiers. Whether it is for signal distribution within the home or within the building, or indeed the “last mile” distribution to the building including signal boosting where needed, our Basic Amplifiers are designed to simply install and turn on. They require minimum to no alignment and thus no need for special tools or indeed skill sets.
25 October, 2021

Let Teleste Enlighten your fibre networks (refreshed for 2021)

Two years have gone since the launch of our extensive range of Optical passives that meet operators’ high operational requirements. Now it is a good time to review what’s new and updated to this family of standard and custom products today.
18 October, 2021

Going green with eco-friendly packaging solutions

Environmental aspects are key drivers in our business. We always aim to minimise our carbon footprint, reduce environmental impacts in all aspects of our operations, and ensure all our processes are environmentally safe. These cover logistics and manufacturing as well as our own energy consumption and our recycling operations.
1 July, 2020

Passives are an active first step towards the 1.8 GHz era

During the first half of 2020, the world saw an unprecedented increase in broadband usage. Video conference services were pushed to their limits and major streaming services had to cut down on their video bitrates to prevent networks from overloading at peak hours. While history will likely not fondly remember the first half of 2020, it admittedly was a good dry run to test and experience network bandwidth, speed, and latency demands of the near future.
3 June, 2020

Making a match of customer installs and social distancing

During spring 2020, the passive business has been anything but. The prevalent circumstances have driven demand towards self-install kits, which almost entirely remove the need for operators to visit homes and come in contact with the end-users, freeing up all parties from the close contact-related risks and general disruption.