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Carriers from Boston to Berlin, and Seoul to Sydney are faced with an access network problem on how to upgrade an access network that is currently considerably taxed by the need to provide more bandwidth to residential and business consumers. Universally, carriers are choosing to place fiber deeper in the access network to overcome the limitations of copper but are faced with myriad architecture choices. Today, many are investigating the deployment of FTTH, whether it is PON or PTP, centralized split versus distributed, while still many more are in the midst of rehabilitating significant portions of their access network with FTTH.
FTTH is being chosen because it maximizes bandwidth to the residence; future-proofs one's network; and provides for enhanced network reliability, increased customer satisfaction, expanded service capability, and improved network OPEX. This tutorial defined the architectures and protocols used in the deployment of FTTH and the components and required technologies used in the outside plant. There were comparisons and contrasts to the deployment of the family of FTTx architectures addressing how FTTH is used today to efficiently and effectively address carrier bandwidth, deployment, and service concerns.
