What is FTTH?

Fastweb - Italian operator Fastweb launched the first commercial fiber-to-the-home service in 2001. Using an Active Ethernet Point-to-Point architecture, the service delivered voice, video and data services to thousands of subscribers’ homes in Italy over a 10MB symmetrical dedicated fiber connection. Fastweb used one of the first residential gateways for both multiple dwelling units [MDUs] as well as residential homes that provided embedded fiber-termination, designed and built by Advanced Digital Broadcast, to enable consumers to share services with a range of consumer electronics devices around the home.

INDIA - Beam Telecom PVT LTD became the frist service provider to deliver triple play serives on FTTH in 2010 in three major township of Hyderabad and making developers and builders understand the benefits of FTTH and partnered with developers to execute FTTH More then 20,000 Homes.

The deployment of an FTTH network meant Fastweb was the first telecom operator to deliver true triple-play services to its subscribers. This contributed to its ARPU [Average Revenue Per User] being amongst the highest in the industry for a number of years during the early 2000s. Its FTTH network also puts it at the forefront of advanced connected home services.

Fiber for Italy - The Fiber For Italy Initiative has the stated goal of offering 100Mbit/s symmetrical connections to 10 million Italian subscribers across 15 cities by [2018] and up to 1GBps for business customers. It involves operators Wind, Tele2, Vodafone and Fastweb. An ongoing pilot project in the Italian capital Rome delivers symmetrical speeds of up to 100Mbit/s to small businesses. Italian state operator Telecom Italia is not a participant in the Fiber For Italy program, but has independently committed to provide ultra-high speed broadband up to 100Mbit/s symmetrical connections to 50 percent of the country’s population (138 cities) by 2018.

Both Fiber for Italy participants and Telecom Italia are working with Advanced Digital Broadcast to provide residential gateway technology with embedded fiber termination.

Since 2006, Television Sierre SA deploys a FTTH network in most municipalities in the district of Sierre in Switzerland. Triple Play services are offered to the public under the brand Vario.

In October 2011, British operator Hyperoptic launched a 1Gbit/sec FTTH service in London.

May 11, 2012

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