There's no question that Verizon Communications hit a home run with its aggressive fiber strategy. The fiber-to-the-home network called Fios has enabled Verizon to supercharge broadband speeds [1] and compete against cable in the TV market [2].

Fios also has helped future-proof Verizon's network. While its cable competitors buckle under the pressure [3] of peer-to-peer traffic on their networks, Verizon has enough capacity in its network, thanks to its fiber upgrades, to weather the storm unscathed and work on its own timetable to find more efficient ways to handle peer-to-peer traffic.

Mark Wegleitner, Verizon's senior vice president of technology in charge of broadband and consumer services, has helped develop and drive Verizon's fiber strategy. I sat down with him at the Nxtcomm trade show in Las Vegas last week to talk about a wide variety of topics, including the controversy over Comcast's treatment of BitTorrent traffic, faster speeds for Fios, and what the company plans to do next when it reaches its 2010 goal of passing 18 million homes with fiber.

To read the interview, click here [4].