FttH (Fibre To The Home)
Imagine a housing development with no running water, no gas, no electricity – the result: no buyers. You can now add highspeed broadband access to that list of necessities, for it is has
indeed become the fourth utility. To a great extent, optical fibre initiated and continues to feed users’ hunger for bandwidth, creating a market that is increasingly demanding high-speed
broadband, and is willing to pay for it. Currently, there are many broadband applications that people want, and want today: video-on-demand, high-definition TV, gaming, home security, telecommuting, movie downloads, home education, video-conferencing, sophisticated telephone service and more.
By clicking on the circles in the animation below you will see the products that can be used for these projects.
A fairly modest mix of these services could involve transference speeds beyond traditional infrastructures. Optical fibre, however, is up to the task, and when deployed with fibreflow can be installed easily, effi ciently and costeffectively. One of the strengths of fibreflow is that with new constructions, tubes can be laid fibre-ready along with other utility lines. This drastically reduces build costs and the higher, often unnecessary, cost of redundant fibre provision.
As customer requirements emerge and expand – and they will, because we’re just in the early stages of the broadband explosion – fibre bundles can simply be blown in to supply service where it is required, when it is required.
