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WHY FIBER OPTICS?
 

More than 10 million homes worldwide already have fiber-to-the-home broadband connections because the technology holds many advantages over current technologies.

 

A key benefit to fiber optics FTTH is that it provides far faster connection speeds and carrying capacity than copper caballing. For example, a single copper pair conductor can carry six phone calls. A single fiber pair can carry more than 2.5 million phone calls simultaneously.

 

Experts say fiber-to-the-home connections are the only technology with enough bandwidth to handle projected consumer demands during the next decade reliably and cost effectively. Fiber has a virtually unlimited bandwidth coupled with a long reach, making it "future proof," or a standard medium that will be in place for a long time to come.

 

WHY FIBER@HOME ?

 

  • FIBER@HOME FTTH will be able to handle even the futuristic Internet uses some experts see coming. Technologies such as 3D holographic high definition television and games will someday be everyday items in households around the world.

 

  • FIBER@HOME FTTH will be able to handle the estimated 30-gigabyte-per-second needs of such equipment. Current technologies can't come close.

 

  • FIBER@HOME FTTH broadband connection will spark the creation of products not yet dreamed of as they open new possibilities for data transmission rate. Using the past as a guide, think what items that now seem commonplace were not even on the drawing board five or 10 years ago.

 

  • FIBER@HOME FTTH broadband connections will inspire new products and services and could open entire new sectors in the business world.

 

FIBER@HOME FTTH broadband connections also will allow consumers to "bundle" their communications services. For instance, a consumer could receive telephone, video, audio, television and just about any other kind of digital data stream using a simple FTTH broadband connection. Such an arrangement would be more cost effective and simpler than receiving those services via different lines, as is often the case today.

 

A quiet revolution in broadband is underway. A rapidly growing number of households are connecting directly our fiber optic network, thereby tapping into a new generation of high-bandwidth applications and services.
 
100 mbps - What it means?

100 mega bits per second (or 100,000,000 bits per second) means fast! In short, 100mbs is enough speed to download an entire music album in as little as 5 seconds, an hour-long TV show in about 30 seconds, and a high-definition movie in roughly 7.5 minutes

Why I need 100 mbps?

If all you want to do is surf web pages, download a few songs, send and receive some photographs, or watch streaming video at current picture quality levels, then the bandwidth provided by today’s cable modems and DSL services is probably good enough for you. But the world is moving toward vastly higher bandwidth applications.

 Companies are offering feature-length movies for download. More people are looking to upload their own home movies into emails or web pages. Consumer electronics companies are coming out with devices that connect televisions to the Internet. High-definition video is fast becoming the state-of-the-art, and one high definition movie takes up as much bandwidth as 35,000 web pages.

In the meantime, a growing number of companies are offering “software as service” – meaning you subscribe to applications on the net rather than install them on your own computer. These “cloud computing” applications are now available for word processing, emailing, automated remote file backup, and a host of business and personal services. All of these applications – and many others we haven’t even dreamed of yet – are going to require much greater bandwidth than what is generally available today, even from “broadband” providers.

Stop and think how your Internet usage has evolved during the last few years. If you’re like most people, you’re doing -- and expecting -- a lot more of your Internet like increased interactivity, rich media and uploading and downloading pictures and video.

More large files are moving across the cyberspace network these days, and experts expect that trend will only increase. A January 2008 study estimates new technologies will drive Internet traffic up by 50 times its current rate within the next 10 years.

The pressure for better connectivity is one of the main reasons providers and users are looking at FTTH broadband connections as a potential solution.