Gaming Future with FTTH

I started online today by checking out some of the Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG or MMORG) sites. It has been a long time I quit my addiction on computer games and it is truly impressive to see the computer gaming industry has evolved from my first monochrome computer game, Pac Man, to highly graphic intensive 3-D virtual reality games. I always amaze with the games programmers and designers creativities in creating those games characters and scenes that are near to reality. The best part of their works is to make the gamers addicted to the games they produce.

I still remember some time back when I participated in my previous company in-house chess game and I decided to test my skill online as I have stopped playing chess after secondary school. And it did not take very long time for me to loose my first game, and I realized that I lost to a 13 year old kid from India. Skillful gamers are not going to feel satisfy just to play the games alone and always look for means to compete with other professional gamers. Online gaming become a tool to go beyond their circle of players and further enhance their skills. MMOG provide a good avenue for the gamers to not just play with someone within the premise but also to challenge nationally or internationally to satisfy their desire to win.

Key requirement for the future of online gaming with massive multiplayer capability is to enable higher network bandwidth to accommodate as many players as possible at a time. With FTTH comes into the picture, the gamers will be able to compete online with streaming game experiences and true high-quality video communications. The need to provide a massive database to allow dynamic user generated content is also highly desirable

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Fiber to the Home News: Asian Economies Continue to Set Pace on Market Penetration

Released by FTTH Council on 27 February 2008

Fiber to the Home Deployment Spreads Globally As More Economies Show Market Growth with Asian Economies Continue to Set Pace on Market Penetration - U.S, China and Japan Drive Volume

(WASHINGTON, DC) – The number of countries where fiber to the home connections are showing significant gains in the broadband services market continues to expand, according to an updated global ranking issued today by the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Councils of Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.

The new ranking, released today at the FTTH Council Europe’s annual conference in Paris and based on statistics gathered at the end of 2007, lists 14 economies where more than one percent of households are connected directly into high speed fiber optic networks. On the three councils’ first-ever ranking, released last July, 11 economies exceeded the 1 percent threshold. Slovenia, Iceland and Singapore were the new entries on the list.

Globally, 2007 was the best year yet in terms of numbers of new subscribers to FTTH services, thanks primarily to strong growth in Japan, China and the United States, where a total of nearly 6 million new FTTH households were added for the three countries.

The updated ranking shows that Asian economies continue to outpace the rest of the world in terms of FTTH market penetration, with South Korea moving into the top slot with 31.4% of households connected, followed by Hong Kong at 23.4% and Japan at 21.3%.

The United States, by more than doubling its penetration rate to 2.3%, moved up three places to eighth position, followed by two of the three countries making their first appearance on the chart, Slovenia at 1.8% and Iceland at 1.5%. The People’s Republic of China moved from tenth to eleventh place as direct fiber connections in that country moved up slightly to 1.5%. Netherlands, Italy and Singapore rounded out the list with market penetration rates ranging from 1.1 to 1.4%.

"It is no accident that Asia-Pac continues to be the fastest growing region for FTTH in the world, with more subscribers connected on fiber than all other regions combined,” said Schoichi Hanatani, President of the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific. “The rollout of FTTH has been encouraged by forward-looking governments and regulators in the Asia-Pac region for several years now. They understand that FTTH is a key strategic national infrastructure."

The global ranking follows the unified definition of FTTH terms announced by the three regional councils last year, and which has formed the basis for recent market research by each council. For completeness and accuracy the ranking includes both FTTH and FTTB (fiber-to-the-building) figures, while copper-based broadband access technologies (DSL, FTT-Curb, FTT-Node) are not included.

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