FIBER-TO-THE-HOME
In 2002 the City of Glenwood Springs began installing a redundant loop fiber optic network throughout the city. This brought Glenwood Springs the capability of true broadband communications, including IP Telephony, High Speed Internet Access, Email and Web Hosting services. The expansion of the network to offer Video on Demand and Cable Television Services is now being proposed to the citizens of Glenwood Springs through a Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) solution.
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One bundle of fiber cable not much thicker than a pencil can carry ALL of the world's current communications traffic.
Source: FTTH Council
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The Advantages of Fiber
FTTH - that is, Fiber to the Home - is the only technology that will deliver enough bandwidth, reliably and at a low enough cost, to meet the consumer demands of the next decade.
FTTH is affordable now, which is why hundreds of companies using hundreds of different business cases worldwide are racing to install it in thousands of locations.
FTTH is also the only technology that will meet the needs of the foreseeable future, when 3D, "holographic" high-definition television and games (products already in use in industry, and on the drawing boards at big consumer electronics firms) will be in everyday use. Think 20 to 30 Gigabits per second in a decade. Copper can't do even 1/1000th of that bandwidth, and then not for more than a few hundred yards.
FTTH will enable products that we have yet to conceive of, but that we are certain will become neccessities for living well and working well in the decades ahead. Look what just the past few years has brought: Mobile video, iPods, HDTV, telemedicine, remote pet monitoring... and thousands of other products.
Source: FTTH Council
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