FTTH - What Is Fiber To The Home?

| FAQ | In a nutshell, FTTH (Fiber To The Home) is the idea of bringing high-speed networking, digital television and telephone service to residences using fiber optic cables. Although we think of cable modem and DSL services as "high speed" today, they are too slow to support networking of applications envisaged for the future such as high-definition IPTV.

Telecommunications companies developing FTTH technology plan to support 100+ Mbps bandwidth per home. They view fiber optic cabling as the best technology for high-speed, high-quality residential area networking, eventually replacing both telephone and cable TV lines. Costs to get FTTH services off the ground are high, but fiber to the home installations are steadily increasing around the world.
→ See also - Fiber to the Home Council