abstract: In order to offer future higher bandwidth applications, the choice for a fiber to the home (FTTH) network seems to be the best candidate. Still, as the full deployment of a new FTTH network involves tremendous civil works and costs, only the highly profitable areas, e.g. city centers, are currently being installed. With the installation of such FTTH networks, all involved parties stay with many questions. What will the future bring on demands from services, upgrades of equipment and maintenance of the new network? What are the next best areas to install and where will an FTTH network require additional public stimulants to succeed? What are the best business models to get a sustainable long term countrywide FTTH installation?
1. INTRODUCTION
FTTH stands for Fiber to the Home or Fiber to the Premises may be offices. It is an idea of bringing high speed networking i.e. high speed internet, digital television and telephone service to residences using fiber optic cables. FTTH provides enormous bandwidth and long reach offering triple play services including voice, video, and data. FTTH offers triple play services with very high data speed. It is a broadband telecommunications system which is based on fiber optic cables and associated optical electronics for delivery of multiple advanced services to homes and businesses. This will provided optical fiber system to the homes by developments by partnering with developers or constructors.
The different ways of connecting to internet such as cable modem, IPTV. The fiber network delivers true high speed broadband services. The network will
deliver 100Mbps (megabits per second) and will deliver higher speeds up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second) in the near future. This is around 10 to 200 times faster than DSL broadband services. The backbone network speed for FTTH presently is 1Gbps or 2.5Gbps & incoming future to 10Gbps.
Fiber to the Home is relatively new and fast