Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Today

posted by Kevin Tan


Fiber to the Home or FTTH has become reality! ! The "last mile" of the final frontier of telephone or broadband networks, the home, is now connected with fiber optic cables.

Imagine a whole new world with internet connections having massive bandwidth in homes, schools, shopping centers and anywhere you can possibly at. You will be overwhelmed by the multitude of options from watching global high-definition television programs to virtual reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) to voice and video conferencing with your buddies while performing your duties as a student or an employee all at the same time on single system without jitter. Doesn't that sound wonderful?

The reality of such a world can be achieved with a new service called the triple-play which combines the phone, internet and television on the network connecting to the premises.

Many homes today are still connected with low performance copper telephone wires. These cables will age and have limited bandwidth that cannot even support DSL connection speeds. Phone companies now agree that the best upgrade for their subscribers connection are to connect fiber optics to the premises (FTTP, FTTH, or FTTx) with low priced components for new network architectures that makes FTTH financially attractive for first timers compared to the increasingly high costs of maintaining old copper cable plants. Phone companies like Verizon, AT&T and Bell Canada are spending billions of dollars in plans to connect millions of homes and offices with fiber optics in the near future to enable them to compete with the cable modems used by CATV companies that provide broadband access.

CATV companies are considering fiber optics to replace aging coax since the price is reasonable and performance unlimited. Municipalities or private individuals are starting to install their own FTTH systems since phone and CATV companies can't do it soon enough. Even housing developers are learning about FTTH because their customers are demanding the highest bandwidth broadband connections.

Be prepared! We're now today in a global shift to a better and faster high speed internet world!


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