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Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) or Fiber to the Home (FTTH) refers to a broadband telecommunications system based on fiber-optic cables and associated optical electronics for delivery of multiple advanced services such as the tripleplay of telephone, broadband Internet and television to homes and businesses.

Fiber-optic technology deployment costs are decreasing, making this technology a competitor to existing services. KMI Research forecasts that the total FTTP market for equipment, cable, and apparatus will reach $3.2 billion in 2009.

Technologies

Two competing FTTP technologies are Active FTTP and PON (Passive Optical Network) architectures.

Active FTTP networks utilize equipment in neighborhoods (usually 1 equipment cabinet for every 400-500 subscribers). This neighborhood equipment performs layer 2/layer 3 switching and routing, offloading full layer 3 routing to the carrier's central office. The 802.3ah standard enables service providers to deliver 100 Mbit/s full-duplex over a single singlemode fiber to the premise. Service providers using Active FTTP technologies include SureWest, iProvo, Grant County, UTOPIA, and Broadweave Networks.

PON FTTP networks on the other hand avoid the placement of electronics in the field. PON networks use passive splitters to distribute fiber to individual homes. One fiber is optically split into 16, 32, or 64 fibers (depending on the manufacturer) which are then distributed to residential or business subscribers. In PON architectures, the switching and routing is done at the carrier's central office. Service providers using PON include Verizon (FiOS) and several greenfield development networks.

Availability in the U.S.

In the United States, the largest FTTP deployment to date is Verizon's FiOS. Verizon is the only RBOC thus far to deploy FTTP on a large scale.

AT&T (formerly SBC) has deployed FTTP in the Dallas, TX area, including the Richardson, TX neighborhood of Richland Park. The company is currently providing telephone and broadband internet services over fiber to homes in this area.

Several municipalities and planned communities across America are deploying their own fiber networks, including:

Availability in the U.A.E

Dubai Internet City, formally Sahm Technologies offer Tripleplay services to properties within the Emaar properties, Dubai Marina, Emirates Lakes, Hills development.

Availability in the Europe

In Holland in the city Eindhoven and a nearby village called Nuenen there is a large network with 15.000 connections. Tripleplay is offered. Houses and companies are connected with single-mode fibre. The network is owned by the members itself, who did form a corporation. The first European FTTH project was also in Eindhoven in a neighborhood known as the "Vlinderflats". This was a multi-mode fibre but was in 2005 changed to single-mode fibre. FTTH resulted in new broadband services, the inhabitants started their own broadband TV station called VlinderTV.

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