What is FTTH?

Home fiber (FTTH) is the delivery of a communication signal through optical fiber from the operator’s switching equipment to the home or business, thus replacing the existing copper infrastructure, such as telephone wires and coaxial cable.
Fiber for home use is a relatively new and fast-growing method, providing consumers and businesses with much greater bandwidth, thus enabling more robust video, Internet and voice services.
Fiber to the Home or simply FTTH is a technology that uses fiber optics directly from the central point for residential installations (as shown in the image below). It provides high-speed, uninterrupted Internet service. Here, “H” includes both domestic and small businesses.
FTTH is the ultimate fiber access solution, in which each subscriber is connected to an optical fiber. The deployment options discussed in this tutorial are based on a complete fiber optic path, from OLT (Optical Line Termination) to the subscriber’s premises.

• Connecting homes directly to the fiber optic cable allows for huge bandwidth improvements that can be provided to consumers.
• Current fiber optic technology can provide bidirectional transmission speeds of up to 100 megabits per second.
• In addition, as cable modem and DSL providers are struggling to extract greater bandwidth increments from their technologies, continuous improvements in fiber optic equipment constantly increase the available bandwidth without having to change the fiber.