Fibre to the premises (FTTP) is the installation of optical fibre direct to individual buildings such as single-family units, multidwelling units, and businesses to provide high-speed broadband access. FTTP dramatically increases connection speeds and reliability for broadband networks compared to legacy copper infrastructure.
Corning helps network operators stay ahead of demand for high-bandwidth capabilities, so you can deliver on the promise of emerging applications – with solutions that accelerate deployment, improve network performance, and minimise costs. Our FTTP innovations, developed with direct input from our customers, have already delivered fiber connectivity to more than 52 million homes around the world.
Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) has typically been held as the term for all-fibre networks that deliver services to subscriber premises – whether they be an individual home, business, or apartment. But the scope of “premise” is becoming broader as optical fibre becomes the preferred medium to reach devices deeper and further into networks than ever before. Generically dubbed Fibre-To-The-X (FTTX) applications, new “X” applications emerge every year.
Fibre to the home (FTTH) deployments have soared globally. As the desire for bandwidth continues to grow, traditional telecom and cable operators, government entities and internet service providers are all looking for economical solutions to reach subscribers with fibre cable.
Fibre to the Unit (FTTU) often refers to the living unit, often characterised by being in a multidwelling unit (MDU).
Fibre to the curb (FTTC) often refers to telecom architectures supporting xDSL technologies. Not fully passive, optical fibre reaches deep into the distribution of the network but leverages existing twisted pair copper cabling to support the final drop to subscriber active electronics.
As wireless demands have risen, fibre-fed macro tower base stations evolved into fibre to the antenna (FTTA) reaching up the tower to the radio heads themselves. As 4G/5G proliferates, operators will rely heavily on a wider mesh of small cells to provide the enhanced mobile broadband experience to end users. The preferred medium will be fiber… densification becomes “glassification” in fibre to the small cell (FTTSC) deployments.
In-building networks where fiber is moving further into the horizontal to displace copper-fed local area networks (LAN) are often referred to as fibre to the desk (FTTD) or fiber to the zone applications. “Wiring it once” to reduce capex has businesses and building owners looking to invest in converged applications where cellular or Wi-Fi services are also integrated into the LAN build.
Fibre to the node (FTTN) often refers to cable operators’ hybrid fibre coax (HFC) networks supporting DOCSIS protocol. Fibre feeds powered optical-to-electrical (O/E) nodes in the access distribution that converts signal to run over existing coax cabling to subscribers. In fibre deep applications, amplifier cascades are reduced to improve overall bandwidth and performance.
With an increased demand on data centres caused by the massive expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its associated technology requirements, the need to effectively manage and store data will become indispensable to a business’s success. Whether fully owned or outsourced, fibre is crucial for the bandwidth requirements of now and the future.
Fibre to the business (FTTB) opportunities are becoming very lucrative service offerings for network operators. Served by the same passive optical network (PON) feeding single-family units (SFU) and multidwelling units (MDU), businesses require higher bandwidth and often carry a higher average revenue per user (ARPU).
