Detailed Study On Optical Fiber To The Home(FTTH)

Around the world, telecom providers are transforming their networks to deliver next-generation services. In their future networks, fiber optic wires, rather than copper,will run all the way to customers' homes and businesses. Most of them have already started building these fiber optic connections - called fiber to the home (FTTH)-because they know that only FTTH can meet the exploding demand for broadband services. Consumers who subscribe to FTTH consistently rate it as the fastest and most reliable broadband technology. They also appreciate that fiber networks can deliver many unique broadband services for medicine, education, home-based businesses, home automation and entertainment. Over the last few years, businesses have made a massive shift to "cloud services." For economic efficiency,their critical systems now operate at huge remote data centers rather than on-site computers. The speed, reliability and security of fiber connections make cloud services viable.Already, fiber connections are available to more than 200 million homes globally - a tenth of all the households in the world - and worldwide, an estimated 107 million households subscribe to fiber-based services, including voice,video, data and more.In the United States,one of every five households is within reach of fiber,and nearly 10 million households are using FTTH services now. These numbers continue to grow rapidly. China alone expects to have fiber broadband available to 200 million households by 2015 and to 300 million by 2020. It expects to have 70 million FTTH subscribers by the end of 2015, with gigabit speeds available in some of the larger cities. Other nations are also embarking on aggressive FTTH rollouts.The first time fiber delivered a signal directly to a home (in Hunter's Creek, Fla.)was more than 25 years ago. Today, more than 200 million homes worldwide have fiber connections available, and more than 100 million homes are connected to fiber.This paper presents a step by step the design and the installation of Fiber To The Home, also called "fiber to the premises", the installation and use of optical fiber from a central point directly to individual buildings such as residences, apartments and businesses to provide unprecedented high-speed internet access. FTTH dramatically increases the connection speeds available to computer users compared with technologies now used in most places.FTTH is a relatively new and fast-growing method of providing vastly higher bandwidth to consumers, and thereby enabling more robust video, internet and voice services.