To The Home -The Future of FTTH-FTTC-FIber To The Home-Fiber To The Curb
desire for two-way, video-based services such as interactive television, distance
learning, motion picture-quality videoconferencing, and videophones is expected
to continuously increase. In fact, some observers believe that there is already
a worldwide demand for these futuristic services today. The capability to meet
this demand and continuously add new services at mouse-click speed is creating
enormous competitive pressures.
capability also offers tremendous revenue potential. Service providers who are
able to offer these services to an ever-growing customer base can double or even
triple their revenue in a short period of time.
a result, demand for fiber technologies such as FTTH are on the rise. Technology
advancements in the area of WDM are expected to further refine and enhance
the technology, enabling more service providers to justify the investment in FTTH.
networks in general evolved in response to consumer demand for a vast assortment
of multimedia services and applications. In order to meet this demand, service
providers need a robust, broadband networking solution such as fiber technology,
which offers unlimited bandwidth and the flexibility to meet customer demand for
two-way, interactive, video-based services.
Today it seems
that everyone wants high-speed data, dependable voice service, and high-quality
video. Whether these services are delivered by digital subscriber line (DSL),
cable modems, or wireless architectures is insignificant as long as the service
is fast and dependable.
Providing these services,
however, presents a number of challenges, including how to get lines out to each
customer and how to future-proof the architecture put into the ground today. This
tutorial will address one possible solution, which is a fiber-optics architecture
called FTTH. There are other terms being used by the telecommunications community
such as FTTC or "fiber to the curb" -but the term FTTH has overtaken
most others as the "final solution" to delivering high speed communicatgions
seamlessly over one medium- fiber optics.
to the home (FTTH) is the ideal fiber-optics architecture. In this architecture,
fiber deployment is carried all the way to the customer's home (premises). Fiber
Optic service to the home is the fastest, most reliable and secure method and
far surpasses anything that Broadband or "wireless" could ever even
dream of. Many people never know that today's vast cellular and wireless network
runs and "communicates"via a fiber optic backbone. This is the only
way such vast amounts of data can be transported from caller to caller -quickly