FTTH/FTTP/FTTC/FTTx

Current Status of Fiber To The User

Created By Jim Hayes, VDV Academy
For The Fiber Optic Association
Presented at The NECA Show, Boston, 2006

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What is FTTx?
FTTH: fiber to the home
FTTP: fiber to the
premises
FTTC: fiber to the curb
FTTN: Fiber to the node
FTTx: for those who cant
decide what to call it or
are referring to all
varieties!
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What is FTTx?
Mostly a telco issue
Telcos have many aging
cable plants
CATV companies have
HFC networks in place
Competitive carriers now
install own fiber
Telcos fighting for
exclusive rights
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Who Competes With Telcos

In Implementing FTTx?

Municipalities
Utilities
CLECs
Private companies
Battleground for telcos
and CATV companies
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Where is the fiber?

Where is the bulk of telephone cabling?
10% is long distance
10% is local loop (metropolitan)
80% is subscriber loop

Long distance and local loop are

virtually all fiber
Is FTTx just completing the system?
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Why FTTx? Why Now?

Telcos are suffering with aging copper
cable plants
Telcos are losing broadband customers to
CATV and landline customers to cell
phones and VoIP
New services are becoming available to
enhance revenue - and customers
demand them
Regulations changed sharing issues
New technology (PON) and cheaper
components makes FTTx cheaper
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Why FTTx? Why Now?

Many telcos are realizing that
the alternatives to FTTx are
inadequate for future bandwidth
needs:
DSL wont have the bandwidth
Wireless wont have the bandwidth
BPL wont have the bandwidth

Eventually they will have to go

FTTx, so why put off the
inevitable?
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Who Wants FTTx?

Homeowners: for high speed Internet
access and video downloads
Home Builders: FTTx adds value (and
profit) to their homes
Hardware Providers
Service Providers: IPTV, HDTV, video
on demand
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FTTx is gaining momentum

US: 6 million
homes passed
(Jan, 06)
1,000,000
connected
Still a drop in the
bucket!

Data from Render,

Vanderslice and
Associates, 2006
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Whats In It For Contractors?

Contractors are doing FTTx installs for
Verizon and others
While few electrical contractors do
residential electrical, homes with
structured cabling offer double the work
and potential profit!
FTTx will affect the commercial fiber
market - fiber is cheaper!
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FTTx Cost Breakdown

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FTTx Architectures
Home run - fiber from CO to every home
Active star - local switch then fiber to
every home
Passive optical network (PON) - use
splitter near customer share fiber to CO
WDM PON - PON but with each
customer having a specified wavelength
All based on standard SM fiber
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FTTx Architecture
Home Run

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FTTx Architecture
Active Star Network

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FTTx Architecture
Passive Optical Network (PON)

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FTTx Alternative
Fiber To The Curb

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FTTP BPON Architecture (Verizon)

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FTTx PON Network

Special Components - Distribution
Hub

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FTTx PON Network

Special Components - Splice Closure

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FTTx PON Network

Special Components - Optical Network
Terminal

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FTTx Is Driving
Residential Cabling
Driven by FTTH, building
codes, customer demand
and builder profits
More diverse than
commercial cabling

Internet
CATV coax
Home theater
Intercom
Security

TIA 570A+
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The FOA Supports FTTx

New certification for
FTTx techs
Training program
and reference
materials for FOAapproved schools
Helping recruit FTTx
techs
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For more information, contact:

The Fiber Optic Association, Inc.
1119 S Mission Road #355, Fallbrook, CA 92028
Tel: 1-760-451-3655 Fax: 1-781-207-2421
www.thefoa.org
info@ thefoa.org

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