Every two years, the European or World Cup takes place alternately. With the same regularity, countless fans ask themselves why the push notification on their cell phone beeps a goal by the Swiss national team even though they haven’t even seen it on TV yet. Even worse: Even worse: this summer too, it’s annoying when the neighbors cheer or moan 30 seconds earlier for every dicey scene!

The 22nd of May 2014 marks an important date in Init7’s company history. It was the birth of Fiber7. In retrospect, there is actually a “before” and an “after”.

Every home with fibre-optic access has a corresponding OTO socket with an identification number, the OTO-ID. In this article, we explain the method used to determine the OTO-ID and what information can be read from it.

The “fiber optic dispute” is an important antitrust case that happened in Switzerland – a case of enormous economic significance. In a nutshell, Swisscom, the largest telecommunications provider in Switzerland, attempted to monopolize fiber optic infrastructure in the country, but it was prevented from doing so by the “Cartel Act”, the Swiss Antitrust Law. In this blog, we’ll summarize how this case came to be and where fiber optic technology is headed.