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Fiber to the Home (FTTH)
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Fiber to the Home By Abdul Rauf 
1. 
Introduction 
FTTH (Fiber to the Home) is an optical fiber architecture in which fiber cable is used in 
the access network to make the final connection directly to customer’s homes or offices. 
The purpose of using optical cable in the access network is to provide broadband services 
to the customers.
The greatest hurdle in its widespread deployment was its high cost, but with the recent 
development in the optical communication systems and especially in the PON (Passive 
Optical Network) made it possible to deploy it widely with reduced cost. On the other 
hand high data rates are now possible because of huge available bandwidth, thus making 
it cost effective solution. 
2. 
Background 
FTTH concept began in 1989 in the United States with test deployments. In 1994 a 
Japanese Company NTT also carried out some trials. These trials confirmed that this 
concept is technically feasible with the cost involved in laying optical cable to every 
house as the biggest hurdle. The recent developments are not trials but workable solutions 
and it is now being installed to hundred of thousands of houses world wide, especially in 
North America and Japan. It is worth mentioning that since long optical fiber cable has 
been extensively used in the core network. Service providers have been using it in 
backbone/core networks to meet the increasing demands in bandwidth.