Present Great Developments and Expectations for FTTH

FTTH, Fiber to the home, you know. It provides the

final customer access technology. There is a situation
that fiber optic cables are extended to the ONU
(Optical Network Unit) based on the customers
premises,

it

also

supply

the

customer

virtually

unlimited bandwidth for all the applications such as

video, voice and high speed data and the speed can
reach up to 1G per customer. Related passive optical
product: PLC splitter . And the FTTH is future proof, it
becomes the only one technology that can meet the
requirements for such high bandwidth, the FTTH
architecture is shown at the Figure.

We know ONU is required for each client rather than

for a group of up to several hundred customers. FTTH
is not cost effective at this time, and is dependent
upon advances in technology to provide a more cost
effective bandwidth on fiber optic cables and effective
ONU technology.
Well, FTTH will be many peoples preference. We can
know after comprehensive knowledge that the easiest
way to provide FTTH is to use passive 1:N optical
splitter to divide the optical bandwidth roughly equally
between the N customers. Alternatively, a single fiber
can also apply for both directions od transmission

using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). The

splitting of the optical power among many consumers
in a PON (Passive Optical Network) has significant
optical power budget.
Recent years FTTH has some developments, such as a
proposal for the creation of a GNDG (gigabit national
data

grid),

it

can

overcome

the

bandwidth

communications requirements for the future and the

proposal also allows the use of the alternative access
technologies, already discussed, such as XDSL, coax
or wireless to provide service at lower data rates.
However, interfacing to such solutions may well cost
nearly as much as the final FTTH infrastructure. In fact,
WDM with optical splitters or optical amplifiers are the
main technologies required to implement such a FTTH
network. Now WDM systems can provide bandwidths
of 40G per fiber, use 16 wavelengths at 2.5 G each.

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