Fiber to the Home (FTTH), also known as Fiber to the Home (FTTP), is the installation and use of fiber to connect directly from a central point to individual buildings such as homes, apartment buildings, and businesses to provide high-speed Internet access. Compared with the current most places use technology, FTTH greatly improves the connection speed of computers available to the user.

FTTH architecture and components

  Two types of systems allow fiber optic cables to transmit data using light, making FTTH possible.  They are active optical networks (AONs) and passive optical networks (PONs).

  AONs use electrically powered switching equipment to actively direct signals to specific users.  PONs use optical splitters to direct the signal instead of electrically powered switches, which means PON users only need electrically powered equipment on the receiving end of the network.

Benefits

1. It Improved HD video streaming performance

2. It has higher speeds over longer distances than previous technologies.

3. It is superior to other fiber configurations because the fiber connects directly to the home and can be used over Ethernet or coaxial cable to complete the remaining network segment.

Future use

  FTTH has long been regarded as the future star of access networks and the ultimate ideal of broadband development. This is because FTTH can meet many needs of various users, such as high-speed communication, home shopping, real-time distance education, video VOD (VOD), high-definition television (HDTV), and so on. These services are only possible with copper or twisted-pair wires but are easy for FTTH.