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What is Fiber to the curb?

May 11, 2012

Fiber to the curb (FTTC) is a telecommunications system based on fiber-optic cables run to a platform that serves several customers. Each of these customers has a connection to this platform via coaxial cable or twisted pair. The "curb" is an abstraction and can just as easily mean a pole-mounted device or communications closet or shed. Typically any system terminating fiber within 300m of the customer premises equipment would be described as an FTTC deployment.

What is FTTH?

May 11, 2012

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.

What are Other uses of optical fibers?

May 9, 2012

Fibers are widely used in illumination applications. They are used as light guides in medical and other applications where bright light needs to be shone on a target without a clear line-of-sight path. In some buildings, optical fibers route sunlight from the roof to other parts of the building. Optical fiber illumination is also used for decorative applications, including signs, art, toys and artificial Christmas trees. Swarovski boutiques use optical fibers to illuminate their crystal showcases from many different angles while only employing one light source. Optical fiber is an intrinsic part of the light-transmitting concrete building product, LiTraCon.

What is Optical interconnect?

May 9, 2012

Optical interconnect is a way of communication by optical cables. Compared to traditional cables, optical wires are capable of a much higher bandwidth, from 10 Gbit/s up to 100 Gbit/s.

What is Parallel optical interface?

May 9, 2012

A parallel optical interface is a form of fiber optic technology aimed primarily at communications and networking over relatively short distances (less than 300 meters), and at high bandwidths.

What is Telecommunication?

May 9, 2012

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded drumbeats, lung-blown horns, or sent by loud whistles, for example. In the modern age of electricity and electronics, telecommunications now also includes the use of electrical devices such as the telegraph, telephone, and teleprinter, as well as the use of radio and microwave communications, as well as fiber optics and their associated electronics, plus the use of the orbiting satellites and the Internet.

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