FTTH Fiber To The Home Deployment
Imagine a world were lighting fast Internet connections are as common as telephone service. Where downloading songs, movies and pictures takes just only moments. Where you can instantly be connected to your friends for online game tournaments or video telephone chats, no matter how far away they are.
It's all possible with fiber to the home and for many people it's happening now. Fiber to the home networks currently pass approximately 10 percent of U.S. households, with more than three million homes connected - a figure that has doubled in each of the past two years. But there is much work to be done to reach the remaining 90 percent of households.
Through out this page will find up-to-date information and news on the challenges to bring 100 mps fiber-to-the-home connections to every household in America.
So...where to begin
It's all possible with fiber to the home and for many people it's happening now. Fiber to the home networks currently pass approximately 10 percent of U.S. households, with more than three million homes connected - a figure that has doubled in each of the past two years. But there is much work to be done to reach the remaining 90 percent of households.
Through out this page will find up-to-date information and news on the challenges to bring 100 mps fiber-to-the-home connections to every household in America.
So...where to begin
What is Fiber to the Home?
Fiber to the home (FTTH), also called fiber to the premises (FTTP)
FTTH (fiber to the home) is a form of fiber optic communication delivery in which the optical signal reaches the end user's living or office space.
Unlike other forms of of fiber delivery such as FTTN (Fiber-To-the-Node) and FTTC (Fiber-to-the-curb) that use existing copper lines in its architecture, Fiber to the Home allows for communications delivery directly to the end user via only fiber. No outside metals such as copper or coaxial cables or electrical powered equipment.
Unlike other forms of of fiber delivery such as FTTN (Fiber-To-the-Node) and FTTC (Fiber-to-the-curb) that use existing copper lines in its architecture, Fiber to the Home allows for communications delivery directly to the end user via only fiber. No outside metals such as copper or coaxial cables or electrical powered equipment.
The World of Fiber-to-the-Home
Today most of the US connects to the Internet through their local cable or telephone company. In the case of phone companies most use old copper lines to deliver a compressed speed such as a DSL. Cable companies does employ fiber in there systems but this stops at a node, usually within 1 mile of your home. This does give better speed but the draw back is that everyone is using the same node. Once half of the customers of the node, roughly 250 homes, signs up and starts using the internet the speed slows down. You see the node node is dividing its available bandwidth equally among all the users. So you might get good connection speeds sometimes while other time the connection seems slow company. The speeds that these systems can deliver top out at 12-15 megs.
During 1999 through 2004 US companies dumped huge amounts of money into the nations fiber back bone infrastructure. The technology then required 2 fibers for every application. One for forward transmission and one for return. Since then the technologies, such as WDWM, has made it possible to combine several signals onto one fiber which increase the number of existing fibers available. Now one single fiber can do what took 288 fibers, or more, to do before.
Did you know that the United States ranks 20th in the broadband usage.
Who's faster?
During 1999 through 2004 US companies dumped huge amounts of money into the nations fiber back bone infrastructure. The technology then required 2 fibers for every application. One for forward transmission and one for return. Since then the technologies, such as WDWM, has made it possible to combine several signals onto one fiber which increase the number of existing fibers available. Now one single fiber can do what took 288 fibers, or more, to do before.
Did you know that the United States ranks 20th in the broadband usage.
Who's faster?
Creating Fiber Optic Cable
Drawing Fiber
This is an outstanding video showing the process of how a fiber optic cable is created.
Fiber Optics
curated content from YouTube
The Need For Fiber Speed
I live in a big city but yet I cannot get this service to my own home. The ironic thing is a splice and test these systems all over the mid-west and northern United state. It drives me bonkers that I can't get what I build!
Here is are a few projects that I have worked on or wrapping up in late 2008. Wish I lived in one of these places.
Lewistown, MT
Iowa City, Iowa
Wauneta, NE
Jamestown, ND
Brainard, MN
Powell, Wyo
Kansas City, KC
Tampa, Florida
Many have been trying to urge Congress to mandate 100 mps speed here in the US for years. I look forward to government including the next-generation broadband expansion into the economic recovery package.
Do you have a fiber-to-the-home service? if so, How do you like it? Too expensive?
Here is are a few projects that I have worked on or wrapping up in late 2008. Wish I lived in one of these places.
Lewistown, MT
Iowa City, Iowa
Wauneta, NE
Jamestown, ND
Brainard, MN
Powell, Wyo
Kansas City, KC
Tampa, Florida
Many have been trying to urge Congress to mandate 100 mps speed here in the US for years. I look forward to government including the next-generation broadband expansion into the economic recovery package.
Do you have a fiber-to-the-home service? if so, How do you like it? Too expensive?
Fiber to the home pictures
I splice FTTH systems here in the western US. Here are a few photos that I taken on thew job showing different styles of equipment and applications.
curated content from Flickr
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