What is FTTH
What is Fiber to the Home
Fiber to the home (FTTH) is the delivery of a communications signal over optical fiber from
the operator’s switching equipment all the way to a home or business, thereby replacing
existing copper infrastructure such as telephone wires and coaxial cable. Fiber to the home
is a relatively new and fast growing method of providing vastly higher bandwidth to
consumers and businesses, and thereby enabling more robust video, internet and voice
services.
Connecting homes directly to fiber optic cable enables enormous improvements in the
bandwidth that can be provided to consumers. Current fiber optic technology can provide
two-way transmission speeds of up to 100 megabits per second. Further, as cable modem
and DSL providers are struggling to squeeze increments of higher bandwidth out of their
technologies, ongoing improvements in fiber optic equipment are constantly increasing
available bandwidth without having to change the fiber. That’s why fiber networks are said to
be “future proof.”
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FTTH networks are now available to more than 15 percent of homes, and more than 5.3
million households across North America are now connected directly into high-speed, highbandwidth fiber networks. Thousands more connections being made every day. As FTTH
service providers continue their deployments and add customers, we are now getting a
glimpse of what the new era of next-generation broadband will mean for the consumers who
use them.
Just as the evolution from dial-up Internet to DSL and cable modem brought in a variety of
innovations and applications -- such as You Tube and Skype -- so, too, will the leap to
symmetrical bandwidth of 100 megabits per second and more. FTTH is already having an
impact on how people live, work and play. How will it change your life?
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Source: Fiber to the Home Council